Naked Engineering: Recent Episodes
Meera Senthilingham, Dave Ansell, The Naked Scientists
| | | | --- | --- | | | Materialchef This week we look at a strong and solid material, concrete. Looking at the foundations of this this scientific delicacy we will explain what concrete is, how it works and what properties the material has that make it so ubiquitous in our buildings and transport infrastructure. Guest: Dave Costen, Milbank Concrete Products Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com. Filming: Alex Parkyn-Smith. Copyright the Naked Scientists. Image: Aali R. Alizadeh |
| | | | --- | --- | | | In this instalment we look at a playful and plastic material, pottery. Smashing our way through this scientific delicacy we will explain where pottery comes from, how it works and how to get the best from a mouldable, malleable and creative medium...
Guest: Katharina Klug, www.katharina.klug-art.com Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com. Filming: Alex Parkyn-Smith. Copyright the Naked Scientists. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | This week we take a peek at an impressive and palatable product, paper, we whizz, blitz and bash our way through to find to out where paper comes from, how it is made and what makes it positively perfect.
Guest: Peter Burford, http://www.thepapertrail.org.uk/ Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com. Filming: Alex Parkyn-Smith. Copyright the Naked Scientists. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | This week we have a gander at the glorious and glistening material, glass. We cook up a scientific delicacy to explain where glass comes from, how it is made and what effect temperature has on this shatteringly-shiny and sumptuous substance...
Guest: Stewart Hearne, http://www.stewarthearn.com Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com |
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This week we have at a wholly wonderful material, wood. Chomping through this scientific delicacy we will explain where wood comes from, how it works and how to get the best from a vivacious, versatile and marvellous medium...
Guest: Donato Cinicolo Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com. Filming: Alex Parkyn-Smith. Copyright the Naked Scientists. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | This week we take a look at the seductive and slinky raw material, rubber, cooking up in the process a scientific treat to explain where rubber comes from, how vulcanisation works and what gives this stretchy industrial staple its unique properties...
Music: Dan-O, at http://danosongs.com. Filming: Alex Parkyn-Smith. Copyright the Naked Scientists. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore how the jet engine evolved to become such an efficient, powerful piece of technology, from the early designs of Frank Whittle to the turbo fan jets we see today... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | David Compton from Industrial Chemicals Ltd explains the conditions, materials and equipment needed to make tonnes of a chemical for use in industry, on a daily basis with a focus on the washing powder component 'Zeolite'... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Engine driver David Gates takes us through the workings of a steam engnine to explain how they powered early trains, sewing mills and sewage pumps as well their importance in industry today... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Elena Barton explains how a wide range of sensors using optics and sound waves can be engineered to monitor bridges and buildings to predict their damage and deterioration and maintain them to keep them lasting longer... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Dr. Martina Micheletti explains how monitoring the fluid dynamics through a bioreactor could help manufacturers produce more efficient designs leading to healthier, happier cultures... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore what happens down at the atomic scale when iron and steel are crafted into tools and machinery at the hands of a blacksmith... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We discover how robotic fish can be engineered to clean up our seas as these marine machines set out to monitor the pollutants in our ports in an efficient and turbulence-free manner by mimicking the movement of real fish... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Dr. Zhong Lin Wang explains how we could use nanofibres to harvest energy from our everyday movements to power nanoscale devices in the future... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore what happens when we talk into our mobile phones and the challenges of keeping data flowing whilst on the move... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Professor Jan Cilliers explains the mineral separation process to see how bubbles and foam can be used to get the minerals you want on a large scale and how understanding more about this can increase profits by over 20 million a year as well as save a large amount of energy... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | James Kay explains the workings of the Diamond synchrotron and the factors that need to be considered when engineering such a large scale facility to a high level of precision... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We visit the tablet manufactuing site of Glaxosmithkline to see how millions of tablets are made each year with accurate precision for the global drug market... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore how load cells can be used measure muscle force and develop treatments for physiotherapy... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | One of the many options in the fight against climate change is to send particles up into our stratosphere to reflect solar radiation and cool down our planet. We explore the engineering challenges of sending particles so far up into the sky... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Dr. Robert Mullins explains how we go from a computer chip to a fully working computer... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We join Hugh Hunt to investigate how retroreflectors will work. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore what a PET Scan is, how a PET scanner works and discover a way to make them clearer and more efficient by combining them with MRI... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Meera and Dave look into how engineers at Blatchford are mimicking human locomotion to design comfortable prosthetics such as the Echelon Foot, an artificial foot that resembles the flexibility of the human ankle... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | How to make the only recently discovered and high-tech material Graphene using sticky tape. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | Green Tide Turbines is attempting to harness the power of moving water both from tides and rivers. |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We explore bistable structures and how they can be manipulated for engineering potential periscopes and protecting flexible electronics... |
| | | | --- | --- | | | We look at modeling the strength of ships when they have been damaged. |