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Practical Engineering
Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams?

Want to restore the planet's ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my ...

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Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams?

489,770 views

4 days ago

Practical Engineering
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

I love geocells ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...

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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

749,210 views

2 weeks ago

Practical Engineering
What's Under Your Feet in New York City?

A tour of the subsurface in NYC ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...

22:32
What's Under Your Feet in New York City?

691,627 views

1 month ago

Practical Engineering
The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans

Based on a chapter from Disasters By Design: How Engineering Failures Shaped the Modern World by Grady Hillhouse, coming ...

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The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans

1,775,887 views

1 month ago

Practical Engineering
Bridge Demolition is Complicated

The complex engineering involved in demolishing the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge. Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an ...

17:56
Bridge Demolition is Complicated

525,217 views

2 months ago

Practical Engineering
Why Roads Get Washboards

The bizarre science of washboards on unpaved roads ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...

17:54
Why Roads Get Washboards

2,823,183 views

2 months ago

Practical Engineering
Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World

The wild story of Mosul Dam in northern Iraq Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: ...

22:23
Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World

612,957 views

3 months ago

Practical Engineering
The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick

_Closed Conduit Hydraulics_ is a place where intuitions don't always serve you well ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom ...

17:43
The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick

1,044,453 views

3 months ago

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The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Teton Dam Failure Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: ...

19:23
The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure

1,186,079 views

4 months ago

Practical Engineering
This Spillway Failed On Purpose

An overview of fuse plug and fusible gate spillways ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...

19:04
This Spillway Failed On Purpose

753,713 views

4 months ago

Practical Engineering
The Most Implausible Tunneling Method

How immersed tube tunnels are built. Immersed tube construction makes tunneling less like drilling a hole and more like docking ...

15:32
The Most Implausible Tunneling Method

2,248,938 views

1 year ago

Practical Engineering
Why Spillway Gates Don't Rust Out

An overview of cathodic protection, including a rust prevention shootout in my garage. The bundle deal with Curiosity Stream has ...

13:21
Why Spillway Gates Don't Rust Out

3,049,298 views

3 years ago

Practical Engineering
Why are Smokestacks So Tall?

A peek behind the curtain of the Illium Works of the Federal Apparatus Corporation. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an ...

20:20
Why are Smokestacks So Tall?

1,165,715 views

1 year ago

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What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry?

Reservoirs are a solution to the tremendous variability in natural water supply, but what happens when they stop filling up?

13:42
What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry?

2,849,873 views

4 years ago

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The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

An overview of the Taum Sauk pumped storage facility, the failure of its upper reservoir in 2005, and the rebuilding process. Watch ...

20:10
The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

11,163,362 views

1 year ago

Practical Engineering
Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

Just about every year, the news reports that someone was buried when a hole they dug collapsed on top of them Get Nebula ...

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Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

6,843,420 views

1 year ago

Practical Engineering
Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

Friction is the final frontier of vehicle/rail interaction! Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...

16:18
Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

1,950,713 views

2 years ago

Practical Engineering
How Earthquake Bearings Work

An overview of seismic base isolation for buildings ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: ...

18:04
How Earthquake Bearings Work

640,720 views

5 months ago

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Why Retaining Walls Collapse

One of the most important (and innocuous) parts of the constructed environment. Look around and you'll see retaining walls ...

12:51
Why Retaining Walls Collapse

3,272,891 views

4 years ago

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How are Underwater Structures Built?

A quick overview of how we build underwater structures. Oceans, rivers, and lakes are often beautiful, but they're not necessarily ...

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How are Underwater Structures Built?

6,549,861 views

7 years ago

Practical Engineering
The World's Most Recycled Material

Exploring the complexities that go into the creation and application of asphalt concrete. Of all the ubiquitous things in our ...

11:20
The World's Most Recycled Material

3,263,902 views

6 years ago

Practical Engineering
How to Clean Sewage with Gravity

The science of sedimentation and the first step of wastewater treatment. We often use chemicals, filters, and even gigantic ...

11:51
How to Clean Sewage with Gravity

1,836,769 views

4 years ago

Practical Engineering
The Most Dangerous Dams

Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses.

8:40
The Most Dangerous Dams

4,044,772 views

7 years ago

Practical Engineering
Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?

Explaining how earthwork works, and why road construction often takes so long. Like it or not, roads are part of the fabric of ...

10:01
Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?

2,384,019 views

6 years ago

Practical Engineering
What is Water Hammer?

Hydraulic transients (also known as water hammer) can seem innocuous in a residential setting, but these spikes in pressure can ...

7:40
What is Water Hammer?

6,817,358 views

8 years ago

Practical Engineering
The Fluid Effects That Kill Pumps

Three hydraulic effects that ruin a pump. We collectively move incredible volumes of fresh water, drainage, and wastewater into, ...

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The Fluid Effects That Kill Pumps

1,839,625 views

5 years ago

Practical Engineering
What Is a Culvert?

Discussing the hydraulics of the humble highway culvert. Culverts are ubiquitous in the constructed world. They seem so obvious ...

10:20
What Is a Culvert?

2,538,060 views

6 years ago

Practical Engineering
What is a Weir?

A weir is a small dam built across a river to control the upstream water level. Weirs have been used for ages to control the flow of ...

8:23
What is a Weir?

8,172,705 views

7 years ago

Practical Engineering
How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

A quick description and demo of this ingenious pump. A hydraulic ram is a clever device invented over 200 years ago that can ...

8:56
How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

7,233,055 views

6 years ago

Practical Engineering
How Are Highways Designed?

Exploring the relationship between speed, safety, and geometry of roadways. Although many of us are regular drivers, we rarely ...

12:21
How Are Highways Designed?

3,585,725 views

6 years ago

Practical Engineering
The Hidden Engineering of Runways

A few of the things I love about runways Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: ...

18:40
The Hidden Engineering of Runways

1,872,407 views

7 months ago

Practical Engineering
Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

A friendly overview of thermal effects on railways. Watch the entire railway series here: ...

15:53
Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

5,183,233 views

2 years ago

Practical Engineering
What’s Inside a Manhole?

See-through sewer system... Say that five times fast. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...

13:10
What’s Inside a Manhole?

2,241,639 views

1 year ago

Practical Engineering
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

What the heck is power factor? Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...

22:07
The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

3,161,177 views

2 years ago

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When Abandoned Mines Collapse

An overview of mine subsidence Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...

17:33
When Abandoned Mines Collapse

2,642,882 views

1 year ago

Practical Engineering
Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

A pretty creative way to cool lots of water... Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: ...

19:48
Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

9,224,371 views

1 year ago