Tag: engineering
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Museum Highlight: Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England
Even on vacation, it’s hard to pass up a visit to a science museum. Earlier this year, I had the chance to visit the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, one of the world’s first industrial cities. Cotton was the commodity that helped this city grow in the early 19th century, giving rise to…
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Legacy Post: We Love Planes! (July 2016)
The dawn of the airplane changed the way we humans viewed the world. In a relatively short amount of time, travel across oceans was reduced from a month or more onboard a sea vessel to a few hours in the air. Getting from one side of the country to the other no longer meant spending…