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RMS Titanic: Fascinating Engineering Facts
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*Video summary*
00:00 Titles/Introduction
Bill explains that duct tape was invented in the 1940s to seal ammunition boxes, but now is used to temporarily fix many things.
00:21 Duct tape on Apollo 13
Bill notes that duct tape was used to repair a carbon dioxide filter on the Apollo 13 Moon mission in 1970. The improved filter was needed because an explosion destroyed part of the life support system.
00:35 The basic functions of tape
Tape is designed to do three things: a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable.
00:53 Components of duct tape
By dissolving duct tape in the solvent toluene, Bill separates duct tape into its three components: plastic backing, adhesive, and cloth reinforcement.
01:32 Properties of Tape Adhesive
Bill contrasts the adhesives used in tape with glue to highlight the unique properties needed for tape adhesive. He shows that Elmer’s glue, a typical household adhesive, dries by evaporating solvent until it becomes solid. He notes that this would _not_ work for duct tape. Instead, tape’s adhesive never hardens because it must adhere when pressure is applied (rather than dry to adhere like Elmer’s glue), hold tight, then let go when the tape is peeled from a surface.
02:11 Tackifier
Bill explains that the stickiness of duct tape comes from a substance called a tackifier, which is a substance that is sticky like syrup. He demonstrates that a tackifier alone isn’t enough for tape: a tackifier can affix something lightweight, but fails with heavy loads. This is unlike duct tape, which can hold at least a 5 pound/2.3 kilogram weight.
02:46 Viscoelasticity
Bill notes that the adhesive for tape is a tackifier mixed with a viscoelastic substance. A viscoelastic substance is a substance that can be, depending on the rate at which it is deformed, liquid-like, solid-like, and which can exhibit elastic behavior. He demonstrates this with a familiar viscoelastic substance: Silly Putty. He shows Silly Putty flowing, fracturing, and bouncing — that is, behaving like a liquid, a solid, and exhibiting elastic behavior.
03:46 Close up of tape being applied
A close up of a piece of tape being applied to a glass surface illustrates how tape’s adhesive displays liquid-like and solid-like behavior. When applied it behaves like a liquid: light pressure causes the adhesive to flow and “wets” (i.e., spreads over) the surface, which allows it to stick to a surface. Once applies the adhesive behaves like a solid to support weight and keep the tape in place.
04:13 Cloth reinforcement
Bill mentions that the weight is held up by the cloth reinforcement. He examines close up the cloth reinforcement used in tape.
04:51 Close up of tape peeling
Bill shows that when tape peels off a surface it exhibits elastic behavior, although sometimes some of the tape’s adhesive can stick to the surface. This is cohesive failure. When this happens the adhesive is behaving like a solid.
06:22 Why gaffer’s tape doesn’t leave residue
Bill explains how gaffers tape and sticky notes peel off a surface without leaving residue.
07:07 Release coating
Bill describes the silicone-based release coating on tape’s plastic backing, which allows it to be formed into a useful roll. This adjusts how much tape sticks to itself. If it sticks too tightly, a user could not remove the tape from the roll; if too loose, then the tape would telescope — he demonstrates the latter with a defective roll of tape.
08:37 Tape adhesive developed by the engineering method
Bill explain briefly that while chemistry is important to synthesize the adhesives, their development is done by the engineering method. The engineering method is described in his book _The Things We Make_ (isbn 978-1728215754 hardcover / 978-1728280455 paper).
09:36 Rolling ball test
Bill demonstrates the rolling ball test to quantify the stickiness of a tape’s adhesive. This is one of many empirical methods used by engineers to engineer tape.
10:15 Where duct tape should not be used
Bill ends this video with a caution: Duct tape — surprisingly! — should never be used on ducts.
10:33 End Credits
*Learn More: Companion Book*
Explore the ideas in this video series further with its companion book: _The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans_ (ISBN 978-1728215754)
amazon.com/Things-We-Make-Invention-Cathedrals/dp/1728215757
*Other videos in this series*
_Episode 1:_ Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU
_Episode 2:_ Controlling Turbulence and Evolution: How Engineers Overcome Uncertainty forthcoming youtu.be/9RAMqFg7laE
_Episode 3:_ The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science forthcoming youtu.be/-8lXXg8dWHk
0:00 Titles
0:07 Engineering Notion of “Best”
The video opens by contrasting an absolute notion of “best” — the Renaissance ideal of da Vinici’s Vitruvian man — with an engineering relative notion as illustrated by the work of industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, who developed drawings of ordinary people with their far-from-ideal proportions. Dreyfuss’s approach demonstrates that an engineering solution can only be judged based on how it handles the constraints unique to its situation — a balance of cultural forces, societal values, availability of material resources, and even urgency. This means that the notion of best changes with time.
1:04 Cavity Magnetron
The cavity magnetron, which powers mobile radar, was created by British scientists in early 1940 in response to fears that Nazi planes would bomb London. This device generates microwave radiation of sufficient power and of the right frequency to detect individual planes.
2:09 First Notion of “Best”
The standard of “best” used by the physicist-engineers who developed this magnetron was simply that it worked — prior to this nothing had sufficient power. The device worked in the laboratory, but now it needed to be mass manufactured to equip thousands of British, American and other allies planes and ships with radar.
2:42 Second Notion of Best
To mass manufacture the magnetron the British turned to Raytheon and their vacuum tube engineer Percy spencer. For engineer spencer, the notion of best changed: now the issue was one of prioritizing speed of production while maintaining reliability.
3:00 Tolerance Central Problem
The slightest deviation in the cavity’s diameter along the length of the cylinder would change the frequency of the radiation and blur the results from the radar. The tolerance was exacting: The diameter of these cylindrical cavities must deviate by at most one ten-thousandth of an inch (about 2.54 microns).
3:36 spencer Magnetron Compared to Prototype
A World War II magnetron, likely used in the Pacific Theater, is compared to the laboratory prototype.
4:16 Laminations
Bill explains how engineer spencer used a time-honored engineering rule of thumb — break complex problems into smaller, more manageable pieces — by creating thin layers, called laminations, which, when assembled, construct a complete magnetron.
5:44 New Notion of Best for Microwave Oven
To reversion the magnetron for an oven the idea of best had to change. At first the goal was to replace the conventional oven and to cook fast.
6:06 1946 Microwave Oven
The first microwave oven, which appeared in 1946, was aimed at restaurants, which is a commercial, not a consumer, use.
6:57 New Notion of Best for Consumer Oven
To become a household item — a consumer oven — needed a new notion of best as seen in the ads of the first successful consumer oven. They now aimed for a standard 115 volt outlet and an oven that fit onto a kitchen counter and into a household budget.
7:27 Evolution of Oven Magnetron
A detailed discussion of the changes from the World War II magnetron to those used in the consumer oven.
9:48 Mythical Story of Microwave Oven Invention
Bill mentions a likely apocryphal story, from a popular magazine, of the oven’s invention after a candy bar melted in spencer’s pocket.
10:14 Problems with Mythical Story
Bill explains how simple stories like a melting candy bar obscure the engineering method and strips away all the richness of how engineers create.
10:47 Review of Video Series
Bill review the engineering creativity discussed in the previous videos in this series.
11:10 Why Understand the Engineering Method
Hiding that creativity dissuades our best and brightest from recognizing engineering as a supremely creative endeavor, which robs us of the next generation of mental firepower, the new wave of engineers, who can help solve the problems our world faces.
11:27 Contact info
Bill can be reached at bill@engineerguy.com or at 217-689-1461 text/voice (use WhatsApp if outside US)
11:31 End Titles
*Other videos in this series*
_Episode 1:_ Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU
_Episode 2:_ Controlling Turbulence and Evolution: How Engineers Overcome Uncertainty forthcoming youtu.be/9RAMqFg7laE
_Episode 4:_ The Microwave Oven Magnetron: What an Engineer Means by “Best” youtu.be/p8IO9u9IuOs
*Video Summary*
00:00 Titles
00:08 Intro
To understand the relationship between engineering and science, Bill notes he will share in this video the story of how an engineer created a revolutionary engine by taming the extraordinary power of steam.
00:24 Power of Steam
Bill explains that steam can power engines because it expands: one cup of liquid water will expand into 1,600 cups of steam.
00:46 Reciprocating Steam Engines
Bill explains that this dramatic change of volume exerts a force that engineers tapped into in the early eighteenth century to drive reciprocating steam engines. He explains the operation of such an engine, focusing on the piston/cylinder where steam expands and the levers that translate the back and forth motion (reciprocating) of the piston to rotating motion.
2:07 Engine Wastes Steam
Bill notes that while the reciprocating steam engine revolutionized the world, it wasted much of the steam’s energy. Once the steam has expanded to about sixteen times its original volume it lacks the “oomph,” the force, to overcome the friction of the heavy piston within the walls of the cylinder. And friction in the arms that convert reciprocating motion into circular motion chew up some of the steam’s energy.
2:30 Charles Parsons’s Novel Steam Engine
But, in the late nineteenth century a novel steam engine appeared that used the energy from an expansion of an astonishing four hundred and seventy nine times a cup of water’s volume. That novel engine was perfected by Charles Parsons. While a huge leap forward, no one would buy his engine.
2:47 The Turbina & Queen Victoria
In frustration Parsons built a ship called the _Turbinia_ to convince everyone of the superiority of his engine. To attract attention he crashed a naval display honoring Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
3:33 Advantages of Parsons’s Engine
Parsons’s engine eliminated the need for the piston and cylinder and levers of the reciprocating engine.
3:45 Aeolipile
Parsons fused two two ways of using steam to rotate a shaft. The first is the aeolipile, designed by Hero of Alexandria in about 130 BC.
4:47 Branca’s Steam Device
In 1629 an Italian engineer, Giovanni Branca, designed a giant boiler shaped like a human head. From its mouth a jet of expanding steam struck a paddle wheel — much like a water wheel — which turned gearing.
5:45 Parsons’s Turbine
Bill explains how Parsons succeeded by cleverly combining the action of the aeolipile and Branca’s device by placing thirty wheels along a shaft — half rotated with the shaft, half were affixed to the casing.
8:00 Infinite Complexity
This design is simple in concept, but Parsons described the execution as of “almost infinite complexity” because of an astronomical number of dimensions and configurations of wheels and blades and every other design variable in his turbine.
09:19 Why Parsons Succeeded
What separated Parsons from the thousands of inventors before him was, he said, the “data of the physicists.” Parsons drew on the data of a forgotten French scientist, Henri Victor Regnault, who spent nearly thirty years documenting the properties of steam. From the data tabulated by Regnault, Parsons could determine that _in principle_ a functioning turbine _could_ be built.
10:15 Science as Rules of Thumb
For Parsons, scientific knowledge helped rule out what wouldn’t work, narrow the possibilities of what does, and shorten the path to a solution: scientific knowledge was being used as a rule of thumb. Thus the relationship between science and engineering is that science supplies gold-plated rules of thumb.
10:49 Electricity Generation
Although the turbine was a nineteenth century invention, Parsons’s turbine still enables the daily lives of nearly every human on the globe as its descendants generate the world’s electricity.
11:03 Next Video
In the next video Bill explores a single word from this definition of the engineering method: What exactly does an engineer mean by “best.”
11:15 End Credits
*Learn More: Companion Book*
Explore the ideas in this video series further with its companion book: _The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans_ (ISBN 978-1728215754)
amazon.com/Things-We-Make-Invention-Cathedrals/dp/1728215757
*Other videos in this series*
_Episode 1:_ Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU
_Episode 3:_ The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science youtu.be/-8lXXg8dWHk
_Episode 4:_ The Microwave Oven Magnetron: What an Engineer Means by “Best” youtu.be/p8IO9u9IuOs
*Video Summary*
00:00 Titles
00:07 Laminar and Turbulent Flow
To illustrate how engineers work their way around uncertainty Bill introduces one of the most complex phenomena in nature yet one of utmost importance to engineers: the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. To illustrate these types of flow he examines the smoke rising from burning incense pointing out that the smoke near the incense flows smoothly (laminar flow) and further away becomes violently swirls (turbulent flow).
00:51 Engineering & Turbulence
He notes that to this day a fundamental understanding of when that transition from laminar to turbulent flow occurs puzzles scientists, yet, engineers must know when the transition occurs to control which type of flow occurs. Of prime importance is the smooth, laminar flow of air over an aircraft wing. Yet, without a fundamental scientific understanding of how to achieve that laminar flow we have flown across the Atlantic Ocean routinely since the first commercial passenger flights in 1939.
1:23 Reynolds’s Apparatus
Although twenty-first century science cannot fully understand turbulence, a nineteenth-century engineering professor, Osborne Reynolds, built an apparatus to find a formula used by engineers to predict the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Reynolds learned that a) below a particular flow rate no turbulence occurs, b) that the transition occurs abruptly, and c) that there is an upper limit to the flow rate above which smooth flow cannot be sustained.
3:10 Reynolds’s Explanation
To understand this behavior Reynolds compared the flow of water to a military troop. He reasoned that the orderliness of marching troops depends on three characteristics: speed, the number of soldiers in the troop, and discipline. The speed of the troop corresponds to the flow rate of the fluid, and the size of the troop to the diameter of the pipe. And the “discipline” is something called viscosity. It’s the resistance to flow.
3:51 Viscosity: Water vs Honey
To understand viscosity, Bill compares the different rates of flow for water and honey: the water flows readily, while higher viscosity honey flows slowly.
4:04 Reynolds’s Number
Reynolds gathered three characteristic of fluid flow — the diameter of the pipe, the velocity of the fluid’s flow, and its viscosity — into a single relationship: The diameter times the velocity divided by the viscosity. He observed that when this combination of variables was less than about 2,100 the flow was laminar and above that value the flow could became turbulent.
5:16 Technological Importance of Flow
With this relationship engineers could know what to change to achieve laminar or turbulent flow. Bill mentions three designs where engineers want to control the type of flow: mixing pharmaceuticals, cooling steel, and directing the flow of air around a truck.
5:51 Science vs Engineering
Reynolds’s approach doesn’t describe turbulence at a molecular level, his description was phenomenological (that is, a description of what is observed). This difference underlines the striking difference between science and engineering: the scientific method strives to reveal truths about the universe, while the engineering method seeks solutions to real-world problems.
6:10 Scientific Breakthroughs Only Change Boundaries
We might think that today’s science would subsumes all of engineering. Yet scientific breakthroughs never remove the need for engineering: Humankind developed the engineering method to reach beyond codified scientific knowledge. Instead, the advance of science only pushes out the boundary between the certain and uncertain, and so resets the boundary where engineers work.
6:35 Directed Evolution
To illustrate that even today engineers step beyond scientific certainty, Bill tells the story of Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold’s evolution of enzymes that can be used under the harsh conditions of industrial use.
12:01 Next Video
Bill mentions that in the next video he will explore the relationship of engineering to science.
12:10 End Titles
*Learn More: Companion Book*
Explore the ideas in this video series further with its companion book: _The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans_ (ISBN 978-1728215754)
amazon.com/Things-We-Make-Invention-Cathedrals/dp/1728215757
*Other Videos in this Series*
_Episode 2:_ Controlling Turbulence and Evolution: How Engineers Overcome Uncertainty youtu.be/9RAMqFg7laE
_Episode 3:_ The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science youtu.be/-8lXXg8dWHk
_Episode 4:_ The Microwave Oven Magnetron: What an Engineer Means by “Best” youtu.be/p8IO9u9IuOs
*Video Summary*
0:00 Titles
0:07 Intro
In this first video of the series Bill notes that the engineering method is among the the oldest of human responses to fulfill human needs.
0:28 Göbekli Tepe
Bill illustrates this with a brief discussion of the ruins of Göbekli Tepe, a stone structure in southeastern Turkey built thousands of years before Stonehenge and the pyramids. A structure whose use and purpose remains mysterious. The age of Göbekli Tepe highlights that engineering existed long before science — at least what we mean by “science” today.
0:56 Precision of Göbekli Tepe
The precision of the placement of the stones in the ruin and their manner of preparation indicate that it is an engineered object.
2:39 Do Engineers Need Science?
This leads to the question “Do engineers need science to create.” To answer that question Bill considers the design of Sainte-Chapelle — a stunning thirteenth century stone building. He notes that it was designed and built — as were all medieval cathedrals — by mason who knew no science, or mathematics and who could not even read, nor did they have a measuring stick.
3:13 Gothic Cathedrals: Light
The medieval engineers strive to build cathedrals that could house large stained glass windows that could let in sunlight.
3:54 Pointed Arches
Medieval masons used pointed arches in their cathedrals to create high ceilings.
4:16 Pointed vs Circular Arches
The pointed arch allowed mason to build higher ceiling using less stone, as clearly seen in comparing Sainte-Chapelle to the Pantheon in Rome.
5:00 Width Circular Arch
The width of the circular arch grows proportional to its height.
5:29 Width Pointed Arch
The width of a pointed arch doesn’t expand because the pointed arch changes shape as it grows taller.
5:39 Proportional Rule
Bill explains that these early engineers used a “rule of thumb” inherited from antiquity — one used to build Roman buildings like the Pantheon — to size the supporting walls underneath the arches. The rule was simple: The width of the supporting wall should be between a fifth and a fourth of the arch’s span.
6:51 How Medieval Engineers Sized Walls
These early engineers could not perform the mathematics needed to implement this rule, so, as Bill demonstrates, they turned this into an action that required no calculation or measurement with a marked rule.
9:06 Why Arch Divided into Three Section
As Bill notes, this is just how the geometry works out. It is the same rule as used to size the supporting wall for a semi-circular arch.
9:52 Rule of Thumb
A rule of thumb is the heart of the engineering method: it allowed the masons to build without understand at a deep level the properties of stone or knowing mathematics.
10:29 The Engineering Method
This is defined as “Solving problems using rules of thumb that cause the best change in a poorly understood situation using available resources.” That’s a sharp contrast with the scientific method, because these rules of thumb are only guides that offers a high probability of success, but no guarantee.
10:40 Rule of Thumb Never Disproved
And, unlike a scientific theory, a rule of thumb is never, in a sense, disproved. That hundreds of cathedrals are still around today, standing for eight or nine hundred years is proof. Instead of being disproved, this rule of thumb for stone became outdated, not wrong, as iron and steel I-beams replaced stone.
11:10 Do Engineers Still Use Rules of Thumb?
Bill considers the question “is engineering based on rules of thumb antiquated in our scientific age?” He notes that that line of thought misunderstands the purpose of the engineering method, which is to solve practical problem before we have full scientific knowledge.
11:33 Next Video
Bill notes that in the next video he’ll explore how engineers work their way around that lack of scientific understanding, how they overcome uncertainty.
11:45 End Titles
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships, but R.101 flew again, its scrap melted down and sold to the Zeppelin Company, who used it to create LZ 129, an airship even more mighty than R.101—and better known as the Hindenburg.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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Publisher Articulate Noise Books | info@articulatenoise.com
Hardcover | ISBN 978-1-945441-01-1
eBook | ISBN 978-1-945441-02-8
Paper | ISBN 978-1-945441-03-5
Audiobook | ISBN 978-1-945441-04-2
Audience 01 — General Trade
Subjects
HIS015070 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
Book Metadata
Publisher Articulate Noise Books | info@articulatenoise.com
Hardcover | ISBN 978-1-945441-01-1
eBook | ISBN 978-1-945441-02-8
Paper | ISBN 978-1-945441-03-5
Audiobook | ISBN 978-1-945441-04-2
Audience 01 — General Trade
Subjects
HIS015070 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
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Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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Publisher Articulate Noise Books | info@articulatenoise.com
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Audience 01 — General Trade
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TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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Audience 01 — General Trade
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TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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Audience 01 — General Trade
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HIS015070 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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Publisher Articulate Noise Books | info@articulatenoise.com
Hardcover | ISBN 978-1-945441-01-1
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Paper | ISBN 978-1-945441-03-5
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Audience 01 — General Trade
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HIS015070 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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TEC002000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
TEC056000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a century earlier, had ruled the seas. The dream ended when, on its demonstration flight to India, R.101 crashed in France, tragically killing nearly all aboard.
Combining meticulous research with superb storytelling, Fatal Flight guides us from the moment the great airship emerged from its giant shed—nearly the largest building in the British Empire—to soar on its first flight, to its last fateful voyage. The full story behind R.101 shows that, although it was a failure, it was nevertheless a supremely imaginative human creation. The technical achievement of creating R.101 reveals the beauty, majesty, and, of course, the sorrow of the human experience.
The narrative follows First Officer Noel Atherstone and his crew from the ship’s first test flight in 1929 to its fiery crash on October 5, 1930. It reveals in graphic detail the heroic actions of Atherstone as he battled tremendous obstacles. He fought political pressures to hurry the ship into the air, fended off Britain’s most feted airship pilot, who used his influence to take command of the ship and nearly crashed it, and, a scant two months before departing for India, guided the rebuilding of the ship to correct its faulty design. After this tragic accident, Britain abandoned airships.
Set against the backdrop of the British Empire at the height of its power in the early twentieth century, Fatal Flight portrays an extraordinary age in technology, fueled by humankind’s obsession with flight.
This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial License.
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SCI034000 SCIENCE / History
►Free Companion book to this video series
http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture | Teaching Guide & Student Activities
In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday continues his investigation of the properties of carbon dioxide and then draws an analogy between the burning of a candle and mammalian respiration.
LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
► Lectures
(1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM
(2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=6W0MHZ4jb4A
(3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=B8vSLgaW9WQ
(4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
youtube.com/watch?v=31pLJyReFXw
(5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
youtube.com/watch?v=v1DWHeouJYM
(6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=Fb4RoPEtwso
► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=ce0g0e9NmgQ
Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=grWNnVB9B-4
Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=0s8anLurWp0
Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=WLgxPKU-JsI
Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=tCmZfnT6_M4
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Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
Audience: 01 — General Trade
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This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the YouTube series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
Author Bios
Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular YouTube channel engineerguyvideo.
Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.
►Free Companion book to this video series
http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture | Teaching Guide & Student Activities
In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday investigates the properties of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
► Lectures
(1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM
(2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=6W0MHZ4jb4A
(3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=B8vSLgaW9WQ
(4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
youtube.com/watch?v=31pLJyReFXw
(5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
youtube.com/watch?v=v1DWHeouJYM
(6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=Fb4RoPEtwso
► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=ce0g0e9NmgQ
Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=grWNnVB9B-4
Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=0s8anLurWp0
Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=WLgxPKU-JsI
Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=tCmZfnT6_M4
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COMPANION BOOK DETAILS
The companion book is available as an ebook, in paperback and hardcover — and for free as a PDF. Details on all versions are at http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
Audience: 01 — General Trade
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SCI013000 SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
SCI028000 SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
EDU029030 EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the YouTube series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
Author Bios
Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular YouTube channel engineerguyvideo.
Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.
►Free Companion book to this video series
http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture | Teaching Guide & Student Activities
In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday investigates one of the products of combustion produced by a candle — water. From water he produces hydrogen and oxygen, whose properties he will investigate in more detail in the next lecture.
LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
► Lectures
(1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM
(2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=6W0MHZ4jb4A
(3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=B8vSLgaW9WQ
(4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
youtube.com/watch?v=31pLJyReFXw
(5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
youtube.com/watch?v=v1DWHeouJYM
(6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=Fb4RoPEtwso
► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=ce0g0e9NmgQ
Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=grWNnVB9B-4
Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=0s8anLurWp0
Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=WLgxPKU-JsI
Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=tCmZfnT6_M4
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COMPANION BOOK DETAILS
The companion book is available as an ebook, in paperback and hardcover — and for free as a PDF. Details on all versions are at http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
Audience: 01 — General Trade
Subjects
SCI013000 SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
SCI028000 SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
EDU029030 EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the YouTube series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
Author Bios
Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular YouTube channel engineerguyvideo.
Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.
►Free Companion book to this video series
http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Text of Every Lecture | Essential Background | Guides to Every Lecture | Teaching Guide & Student Activities
In these lectures Michael Faraday’s careful examination of a burning candle reveals the fundamental concepts of chemistry, while at the same time superbly demonstrating the scientific method. In this lecture Faraday reveals why a candle’s flame is bright. To do this he investigates the properties of the flame.
LINKS TO OTHER VIDEOS IN THIS SERIES
► Lectures
(1/6) Introduction to Michael Faraday’s Chemical History of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM
(2/6) Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=6W0MHZ4jb4A
(3/6) Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame
youtube.com/watch?v=B8vSLgaW9WQ
(4/6) Lecture Three: Products of Combustion
youtube.com/watch?v=31pLJyReFXw
(5/6) Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere
youtube.com/watch?v=v1DWHeouJYM
(6/6) Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle
youtube.com/watch?v=Fb4RoPEtwso
► Bonus Videos: Lectures with Commentary
Lecture One: A Candle: Sources of its Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=ce0g0e9NmgQ
Lecture Two: Brightness of the Flame (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=grWNnVB9B-4
Lecture Three: Products of Combustion (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=0s8anLurWp0
Lecture Four: The Nature of the Atmosphere (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=WLgxPKU-JsI
Lecture Five: Respiration & its Analogy to the Burning of a Candle (Commentary version)
youtube.com/watch?v=tCmZfnT6_M4
►Subscribe now! youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=engineerguyvideo
►Become an advanced viewer of Engineer Guy videos - help evaluate early drafts
http://www.engineerguy.com/preview
COMPANION BOOK DETAILS
The companion book is available as an ebook, in paperback and hardcover — and for free as a PDF. Details on all versions are at http://www.engineerguy.com/faraday
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
with Guides to the Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Bill Hammack & Don DeCoste
190 pages | 5 x 8 | 14 illustrations
Hardcover (Casebound) | ISBN 978-0-9838661-8-0 | $24.95
Paper| ISBN 978-1-945441-00-4| $11.99
eBook | ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 | $3.99
Audience: 01 — General Trade
Subjects
SCI013000 SCIENCE / Chemistry / General
SCI028000 SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
EDU029030 EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This companion to the YouTube series contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.” Through a careful examination of a burning candle, Faraday’s lectures introduce readers to the concepts of mass, density, heat conduction, capillary action, and convection currents. They demonstrate the difference between chemical and physical processes, such as melting, vaporization, incandescence, and all types of combustion. And the lectures reveal the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, including their relative masses and the makeup of the atmosphere. The lectures wrap up with a grand, and startling, analogy: by understanding the chemical behavior of a candle the reader can grasp the basics of respiration. To help readers understand Faraday’s key points this book has an “Essential Background” section that explains in modern terms how a candle works, introductory guides for each lecture written in contemporary language, and seven student activities with teaching guides.
Author Bios
Bill Hammack is a Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he focuses on educating the public about engineering and science. He is the creator and host of the popular YouTube channel engineerguyvideo.
Don DeCoste is a Specialist in Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois—Urbana, where he teaches freshmen and pre-service high school chemistry teachers. He is the co-author of four chemistry textbooks.