Stories by joebig

Tubebooks.org: A collection of vintage engineering texts, vacuum tube datasheets

Some industries still use floppy disks

2009 SWOT analysis of some US Megacorporations [pdf]

Ebola: Anatomy of a Global Outbreak (2014) [video]

Self-Sealing Fuel Tanks in WWII [video]

The Translation of Technical and Scientific Terms in Science Fiction

Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – A Physical Mathematician [pdf]

Ask HN: Why can't we solve the problem of direct eye contact in video calls?

The Heider and Simmel Movie [video]

Notorious Abortionist Madame Restell Built a Drug Empire

Sisters in Innovation: 20 Women Inventors You Should Know

The Massacre at Monkey Hill

Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call

So why square root of minus one? Complex numbers explained by Charles Steinmetz [video]

Angels and Demons: The science behind Dan Brown's novel (2009) [video]

Back to basics: the onset of skin effect in circuit board traces [pdf]

Nonproliferation Issues for Weapons of Mass Destruction [pdf] (2005)

Industrial history of United States: from earliest settlements to present (1846)

"The Custer Wolf is Dead." (1921) [pdf]

Springfield, KS

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9