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Practical Engineering

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235 videos · 18 shorts · 2x a month

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Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes?

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The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators

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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained

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Stopping the Unstoppable

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Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams?

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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

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What's Under Your Feet in New York City?

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The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans

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Bridge Demolition is Complicated

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Why Roads Get Washboards

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Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World

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The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick

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The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure

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This Spillway Failed On Purpose

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The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild

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How Earthquake Bearings Work

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So You Want to Build a Tunnel...

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Do Retention Ponds Actually Work?

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The Hidden Engineering of Runways

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Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts)

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Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose)

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Hurricane vs. Tiny Houses

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The Hidden Engineering Behind the Falkirk Wheel

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Concrete's Greatest Weakness is Time

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The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls

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The Bizarre Bases of Antenna Towers

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An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods

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The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction

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California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath

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Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?

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The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges

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How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work

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How Water Recycling Works

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Why are Smokestacks So Tall?

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The Most Implausible Tunneling Method

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When Abandoned Mines Collapse

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When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

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Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

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This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse

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All Dams Are Temporary

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A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

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What’s Inside a Manhole?

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Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?

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The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction

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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

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What’s the Deal with Base Plates?

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Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?

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Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

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1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours

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The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

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Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?

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When Infrastructure Gets Hacked

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The Hidden Engineering of Landfills

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Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?

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How French Drains Work

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When Natural Gas Had No Smell

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Why Bridges Don't Sink

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This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed

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The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

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Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

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How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions

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Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

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Why Fish Ladders (Mostly) Work

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How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works

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How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines

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How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad

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Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

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How The Channel Tunnel Works

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How Railroad Crossings Work

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How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

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Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

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Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5

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How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4

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Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3

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Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2

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Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1

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Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes

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Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?

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Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained

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Why Is Desalination So Difficult?

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Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?

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How Flood Tunnels Work

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What Really Happened During the Gas Explosions in the Merrimack Valley?

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How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)

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East Palestine Train Derailment Explained

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Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers

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Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget

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Why Rivers Move

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The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water

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Why Some Roads Are Made of Styrofoam

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What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?

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How Different Spillway Gates Work

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How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian

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What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?