The Lesser Known Engineer: Nikola Tesla
Public Domain, Link Over a century ago, a gifted man by the name of Nikola Tesla toiled away on his inventions in an upper flat
The Weaving Machine of the Industrial Revolution
Most of us are familiar with the famous computer scientists/entrepreneurs of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are just
Time to Consider an Alternative Paradigm: Water 4.0
Photo By McPolu – Image taken by the user from a balloon and uploaded to Flickr. The user changed its license to a commons-compatible one
Robot Engineers?
You may lose your white-collar job to a robot sooner than you think. According to the IDC (International Data Corporation), a global provider of market
Tales in Geography: John Wesley Powell at the Helm of the USGS (Part 2)
Fights over water are pretty common these days. The San Joaquin River in California, for example, is in the thick of disputes between farmers, cities
Tales in Geography: Early Methods in Surveying
An engineer’s ability to tackle a complex modeling project requires accurate and reliable baseline data. Centuries of discovery, research, and human ingenuity have produced data
Tales in Geography: John Wesley Powell Rides the Colorado (Part 1)
photo courtesy Philip Greenspun “We are three quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth, and the great river shrinks into insignificance as
Tales in Geography: John C. Frémont Charts the West
“We had accomplished an object of laudable ambition, and beyond the strict order of our instructions. We had climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky
Tales in Geography: Mercator’s Projection Transforms World Cartography
CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The 16th century was a pivotal time in the history of mapmaking. By the 15th century, Europe was already deep in exploration and
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