Practical Engineering

• The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick
  2026-05-05 13:01:16  ·  17m
• The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure
  2026-04-21 13:00:28  ·  19m
• This Spillway Failed On Purpose
  2026-04-07 13:01:01  ·  19m
• The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild
  2026-03-17 13:00:44
• Earthquake-Proof Foundations
  2026-03-03 14:01:26
• So You Want to Build a Tunnel...
  2026-02-17 14:00:50
• Do Retention Ponds Actually Work?
  2026-02-03 14:01:36
• The Hidden Engineering of Runways
  2026-01-20 14:01:03
• Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts)
  2026-01-06 14:00:24
• Sawing a Dam in Half (on Purpose)
  2025-12-16 14:01:29
• Hurricane vs. Tiny House
  2025-12-02 14:00:00
• The Hidden Engineering Behind the Falkirk Wheel
  2025-11-15 21:39:56
• Concrete’s Greatest Weakness
  2025-11-04 14:01:13
• The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
  2025-10-21 13:00:14
• The Bizarre Bases of Antenna Towers
  2025-10-07 13:00:06
• An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods
  2025-09-16 13:00:10
• The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction
  2025-09-02 13:00:09
• California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath
  2025-08-19 13:00:45
• Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?
  2025-08-05 13:01:04
• The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges
  2025-07-15 13:01:34
• How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work
  2025-07-01 13:01:24
• How Sewage Recycling Works
  2025-06-17 13:01:04
• Why are Smokestacks So Tall?
  2025-06-03 14:41:52
• The Most Implausible Tunneling Method
  2025-05-20 13:01:19
• When Abandoned Mines Collapse
  2025-05-06 13:00:51
• When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe
  2025-04-15 13:00:00
• Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?
  2025-04-01 13:00:04
• This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse
  2025-03-18 13:01:15
• All Dams Are Temporary
  2025-03-04 14:00:39
• An Engineer’s Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges
  2025-02-14 14:00:43
• What’s Inside a Manhole?
  2025-02-04 14:00:02
• Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?
  2025-01-21 14:01:04
• The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction
  2025-01-07 14:00:31
• The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings
  2024-12-17 14:00:05
• What’s the Deal with Base Plates?
  2024-12-03 14:00:49
• Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?
  2024-11-19 14:01:01
• Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?
  2024-11-05 14:00:59
• 1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours
  2024-10-29 13:00:51
• The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure
  2024-10-15 13:01:13
• Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?
  2024-10-01 13:00:35
• When Infrastructure Gets Hacked
  2024-09-17 13:00:38
• The Hidden Engineering of Landfills
  2024-09-03 13:00:17
• Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?
  2024-08-20 13:15:00
• How French Drains Work
  2024-08-06 13:00:01
• When Natural Gas Had No Smell
  2024-07-16 13:00:49
• Why Bridges Don't Sink
  2024-07-02 13:00:35
• This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed
  2024-06-18 13:00:07
• The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
  2024-06-04 13:00:27
• Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes
  2024-05-21 13:00:18
• How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions
  2024-05-07 13:00:54
• Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think
  2024-04-16 13:00:06
• How Do Fish Ladders Work?
  2024-04-02 13:00:19
• How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works
  2024-03-19 13:00:37
• How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines
  2024-03-05 14:00:22
• How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad
  2024-02-20 14:00:17
• Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires
  2024-02-06 14:00:39
• How The Channel Tunnel Works
  2024-01-16 14:00:12
• How Railroad Crossings Work
  2024-01-02 14:00:07
• How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  2023-12-19 14:00:01
• Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
  2023-12-05 14:00:40
• Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
  2023-11-21 12:58:08
• Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)
  2023-11-07 14:00:41
• HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5
  2023-10-24 13:00:23
• Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life
  2023-10-17 13:00:47
• HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4
  2023-10-10 13:00:32
• Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?
  2023-10-03 13:00:26
• HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3
  2023-09-26 13:00:33
• Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
  2023-09-19 13:00:44
• HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2
  2023-09-12 13:00:45
• Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?
  2023-09-05 13:00:18
• HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1
  2023-08-29 13:00:20
• Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes
  2023-08-15 13:00:08
• Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?
  2023-08-01 13:00:27
• Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained
  2023-07-18 13:00:35
• Why Is Desalination So Difficult?
  2023-07-05 13:00:38
• Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?
  2023-06-20 13:00:02
• How Flood Tunnels Work
  2023-06-06 13:00:43
• Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions: What Really Happened?
  2023-05-16 13:00:31
• Why Bridges Need Sensors (and other structures too)
  2023-05-02 13:00:15
• East Palestine Train Derailment Explained
  2023-04-18 13:00:42
• Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers 已转录
  2023-04-04 13:00:46
• Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget
  2023-03-21 13:00:24
• Why Rivers Move
  2023-03-07 14:00:27
• The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water
  2023-02-21 14:00:28
• Why Some Roadways Are Made of Styrofoam
  2023-02-07 14:00:35
• What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
  2023-01-17 14:00:17
• How Different Spillway Gates Work
  2023-01-03 14:00:12
• How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian
  2022-12-20 14:00:32
• What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?
  2022-12-06 14:00:31
• How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?
  2022-11-22 14:00:23
• How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid?
  2022-11-08 14:00:13
• Engineering In Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
  2022-11-01 13:30:11
• The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space Shuttle
  2022-10-18 12:00:40
• What's the Difference Between Paint and Coatings?
  2022-10-04 12:30:05
• What Really Happened at the New Harbor Bridge Project?
  2022-09-20 12:30:10
• These Metals Sacrifice Themselves to Prevent Rust
  2022-09-06 12:30:30
• What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood?
  2022-08-16 12:30:14
• You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably)
  2022-08-02 12:30:00
• What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry?
  2022-07-19 12:30:16
• How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth?
  2022-07-05 12:00:14
• 4 Myths About Construction Debunked
  2022-06-21 12:00:02
• The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures
  2022-06-07 12:00:31
• How We Track COVID-19 (And Other Weird Stuff) In Sewage
  2022-05-17 12:00:37
• How Wells & Aquifers Actually Work
  2022-05-03 12:30:19
• The Engineering Behind Russia's Deadlocked Pipeline: Nord Stream 2
  2022-04-19 12:30:10
• What Sewage Treatment and Brewing Have in Common
  2022-04-05 12:30:12
• The Most Mindblowing Infrastructure in My City
  2022-03-25 13:25:52
• How to Clean Sewage with Gravity
  2022-03-01 13:00:19
• What Really Happened During the 2003 Blackout?
  2022-02-15 13:00:08
• How Do We Pump Sewage?
  2022-02-01 13:00:19
• Why Buildings Need Foundations
  2022-01-04 13:00:00
• Rebuilding the Oroville Dam Spillways
  2021-12-21 13:00:32
• Why Retaining Walls Collapse
  2021-12-07 13:00:00
• What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?
  2021-11-16 13:00:23
• Why SpaceX Cares About Dirt
  2021-11-02 12:00:32
• What Really Happened At Edenville and Sanford Dams?
  2021-10-19 12:00:35
• Why SpaceX Cares About Concrete
  2021-10-05 12:00:15
• Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible
  2021-09-21 12:00:35
• Why Things Fall Off Cranes
  2021-09-07 12:00:22
• Surfside Condo Collapse: What We Know So Far
  2021-08-17 12:00:19
• Why Cranes Collapse
  2021-08-03 12:00:17
• What Really Happened at the Arecibo Telescope?
  2021-07-20 12:00:03
• How Sewers Work (feat. Fake Poop)
  2021-07-06 12:00:11
• What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?
  2021-06-15 12:30:20
• The Fluid Effects That Kill Pumps
  2021-06-01 12:00:13
• What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
  2021-05-18 12:30:19
• Do Pumps Create Pressure or Flow?
  2021-05-04 12:30:13
• What Really Happened at the Suez Canal?
  2021-04-20 11:33:57
• Flow and Pressure in Pipes Explained
  2021-04-06 12:19:12
• What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?
  2021-03-23 11:01:03
• What is Storm Surge?
  2021-03-02 13:30:03
• Practical Engineering Live Stream
  2021-02-03 18:01:30
• How Coastal Erosion Works
  2021-02-02 13:12:07
• How Do Flood Control Structures Work?
  2021-01-05 12:00:02
• Why Engineers Invent Floods
  2020-12-01 12:00:08
• Where Does Stormwater Go?
  2020-11-03 16:49:27
• How Does Permeable Pavement Work?
  2020-10-06 11:00:05
• How Do Potholes Work?
  2020-09-01 11:00:10
• The World's Most Recycled Material
  2020-08-04 12:00:09
• How Are Highways Designed?
  2020-07-07 11:00:05
• Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?
  2020-06-02 12:00:16
• What Is a Culvert?
  2020-05-05 12:00:00
• The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks
  2020-04-07 12:00:22
• Why Pipes Move Underground
  2020-03-10 11:00:10
• What is Air Lock?
  2020-02-11 12:00:14
• Compress Air with No Moving Parts! - Trompe
  2020-01-14 12:00:13
• How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?
  2019-12-17 12:00:11
• How Power Blackouts Work
  2019-11-19 12:00:02
• World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)
  2019-10-31 11:00:00
• How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?
  2019-09-24 11:00:11
• How Do Substations Work?
  2019-08-27 11:00:01
• How Electricity Generation Really Works
  2019-07-23 11:00:01
• How Does the Power Grid Work?
  2019-06-25 11:00:07
• How Do Spillways Work?
  2019-05-28 11:00:07
• How Do Traffic Signals Work?
  2019-05-14 11:00:02
• How are Underwater Structures Built?
  2019-04-23 11:00:07
• The Most Dangerous Dams
  2019-03-26 11:00:03
• What is a Weir?
  2019-02-25 12:00:07
• What is a Hydraulic Jump?
  2019-01-29 12:00:01
• How Water Towers Work
  2018-12-10 12:00:05
• What is Prestressed Concrete?
  2018-11-27 12:01:07
• Was Roman Concrete Better?
  2018-10-29 11:00:06
• Does Rebar Rust?
  2018-09-25 11:00:02
• Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed
  2018-08-28 15:54:23
• Why Tunnels Don't Collapse
  2018-07-24 11:00:06
• What is Cavitation? (with AvE)
  2018-06-26 11:00:09
• How to Detect Muons!
  2018-05-29 11:00:00
• Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement
  2018-04-25 23:27:07
• What is Concrete?
  2018-03-27 11:00:04
• Why Bridges Move...
  2018-02-27 12:00:08
• How to Collapse a Pipe by Closing a Valve
  2018-01-30 02:18:06
• What is Steam Hammer?
  2017-12-28 17:36:48
• What is Water Hammer?
  2017-11-28 12:00:04
• How Soil Destroys Buildings
  2017-10-25 11:00:04
• How Quicksand Causes Dam Failures
  2017-09-28 11:05:20
• How to Super-Size the Eclipse - Sun Funnel
  2017-08-18 02:23:03
• How does land surveying work?
  2017-07-26 17:51:31
• How Do Sinkholes Form?
  2017-06-28 17:28:11
• The Physics of Falling Back in your Chair
  2017-05-16 11:00:03
• What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 5 - Wireless Telecommunications)
  2017-03-06 03:46:14
• Automatic Bell Siphon Explained
  2017-02-20 12:00:05
• Welding 101 for Hobbyists (and Nerds)
  2017-01-23 20:52:13
• What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 4 - Subsurface Utilities)
  2016-12-31 04:21:28
• Rivers on Mars! (and other uses for hydraulic models)
  2016-11-09 11:00:03
• What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 3 - Hydraulic Structures)
  2016-10-25 03:02:17
• Building the Desktop Watt Balance and FAQ
  2016-10-15 20:54:04
• Technical Illustration of Desktop Watt Balance
  2016-10-05 04:28:14
• Redefining the Kilogram with the DIY Watt Balance
  2016-09-27 10:30:00
• What's that Infrastructure? (Ep. 2 - More Transportation Infrastructure)
  2016-08-30 18:09:52
• What's that Infrastructure? (Ep. 1 - Transportation Infrastructure)
  2016-08-11 02:13:52
• How to Measure Flow with Magnets - (Magnetic Flow Meters)
  2016-07-26 00:32:01
• Sphere Earth Conspiracy - Geodesy
  2016-07-01 02:14:08
• Q&A - The A Part (100k Subscribers!)
  2016-06-21 22:27:36
• Q&A - The Q Part
  2016-06-17 00:41:18
• Boil Water at Room Temperature! - Hydrostatics
  2016-06-13 11:03:11
• Artificial Meteors and Re-Entry Engineering
  2016-05-25 02:25:57
• Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth
  2016-05-16 11:02:47
• Design Your Own Space Elevator
  2016-04-17 22:23:40
• Why do Baseball Bats Break?
  2016-03-28 03:44:53
• Can a satellite do a yo-yo trick?
  2016-03-21 03:11:55
• The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)
  2016-03-07 01:17:32
• What is a Tuned Mass Damper?
  2016-02-14 22:39:43
• 1E6 Views and a Few Announcements
  2016-02-05 12:00:01
• Arduino Weather Station - Internet of Things and the Particle Photon
  2015-11-29 23:29:25
• Tap Handle with Stone Inlay on the Lathe
  2015-10-24 21:46:17
• Kite Aerial Photography Rig
  2015-10-19 04:03:48
• Groundwater Flow Demonstration Model
  2015-10-08 01:52:30
• International Space Station Orbit Tracker
  2015-08-26 11:21:58
• Quick Build: Cubicle Wall Planter
  2015-08-02 17:13:04
• Arcade-Style Puzzle Box Mini Game
  2015-05-29 12:13:04
• Segmented Vases for Mother's Day
  2015-05-01 13:06:11
• Arduino Garden Controller - Automatic Watering and Data Logging
  2015-04-02 11:00:00
• Dam and Reservoir Civil Engineer Career Day Display
  2015-03-14 00:42:30
• Turning Two Scoops on the Lathe - 2015 Kitchen Utensil Build Challenge
  2015-02-27 12:00:01
• Resin Sphere Turning Experiment Failure
  2015-02-12 03:30:00
• Turning a Handle for a Carbide Tool on the Lathe
  2015-01-26 13:13:58
• Turning a wooden mortar and pestle on the lathe
  2015-01-20 02:57:03
• Reclaimed end table with starry night tile mosaic top
  2015-01-17 05:09:15
• Turning a Red Oak and Wenge Bowl on the Lathe
  2015-01-11 22:57:24
• How to build a wall-mounted cat tree
  2015-01-09 04:43:55
• Segmented Bowl Factory - Stop Motion Woodworking
  2014-12-31 04:35:29
• How not to make a segmented bowl on the lathe (stop motion)
  2014-11-26 04:18:09
• Building a tile mosaic coffee table
  2014-11-16 05:47:05
• Turning Two Segmented Bowls on the Lathe - Maple with Mahogany Accents
  2014-10-29 01:59:05
• Turning a Segmented Bowl on the Lathe - Cherry and Spectraply
  2014-10-10 16:18:30