Engineering
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- Hurricane from Hawkers
- An Introduction to the Fracture Mechanics of Spaghetti
- Androids
- Automatic Telephone Exchanges
- Bell Huey UH1 Helicopter
- Boning
- Boulton Paul Defiant - World War II Aircraft
- Bristol Beaufighter - World War II Aircraft
- Britain's First Supersonic Aeroplane
- Brunel, Father and Son - British Engineering Genius
- Bulletproof Glass
- Car MOT Test
- Cars
- City of Truro - 100mph Steam Locomotive
- Concorde - the Passenger Plane to European Unification
- Concrete
- Concrete Cancer
- Constructing Rubber-Powered, Free-Flight, Scale Models
- DVD Video
- Digital Radio
- Doors
- Dunnies
- Electronic Fuel Injection, Air/Fuel Mixtures and Catalytic Convertors
- Ergonomics
- Evening Star - Steam Locomotive
- Fountain Pens
- Gloster Gladiator - World War II Aircraft
- Green Arrow - Steam Locomotive
- Gyroscopes
- HMS Warrior
- Hammersmith Bridge, London, UK
- Hard Drives
- Helicopters
- Henry Bessemer and the Development of Bulk Steelmaking
- Hobbyist Mechanics
- Hole Punches
- How Power Stations Work
- How a Pump Works
- Installing a Vehicle-mounted Electrical Winch
- Jet Engines
- Leonardo's Bridge
- Magnetic Levitation - the Future of Rail Travel?
- Make Yourself a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
- McLaren Cars, Ltd
- Measuring Tolerance, How Wrong Can We Be?
- Mi Amigo : the Fate of a Flying Fortress
- Mobile Phone Ringtones
- Nikola Tesla
- North American B-70 Valkyrie
- Nuts, Bolts and Screws
- Obstacles to Manned Space Exploration: Propulsion
- Optical Microscopes
- PTFE - The Most Slippery Substance in the World
- Photocopiers
- Plastic
- Project Daedalus - Interstellar Spacecraft
- Project Plowshare - 'Peaceful Nuclear Explosions'
- Pulsed Laser Systems
- RX-7
- Rechargeable Batteries
- Richard Trevithick and the First Railway Locomotive
- Roller Coaster History
- Salamander Crossing
- Sea Wings 2000 - A Unique Airshow
- Simple Machines
- Single Pipe Steam Heat
- Steam Engine Wheel Arrangements
- Stephenson's Rocket
- Stirling Engines
- Tape Hiss
- Basics on Personal AM/FM Radios
- Box, a Conversion for Type 1 Volkswagens
- Bussard Ramjet - an Interstellar Drive?
- Channel Tunnel
- Chrysler 318 Poly Engine
- Deltic Locomotive
- Dipstick
- Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
- Fairey Rotodyne - an Opportunity Missed
- First Canoe to Fly Around the Statue of Liberty
- First Commercial Aeroplane Flight
- GTI Story
- Gloster Meteor: Britain's First Operational Military Jet
- Gomboc
- Groma: The Tool That Built An Empire
- Helix
- Isle of Wight Terrier Engines
- Maharaja's Well, Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, UK
- Prague Astronomical Clock
- Queen Victoria Blast Furnace Explosion, 1975
- River Don Engine
- Story of Cement
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline - Water for the City
- Watercress Line Mid-Hants Railway
- Three Basics of Electronics
- Thrust2 - a Record-Breaking Car
- Torque or Moment
- Tractor Pulls
- Tu-144 - World's First Supersonic Transport Aircraft
- USS Nautilus - the First Atomic Submarine
- Westland Whirlwind - World War II Aircraft
- de Havilland Mosquito - World War II Aircraft
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