Author: John
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The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink
Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1. An Egyptian ploughman, circa 1200 BC (Wikimedia Commons) The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, had a question: What are the most meaningful innovations in humanity’s culinary history? What mattered more to the development of civilization’s cultivation of food: the oven? The fridge? The plough?…
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How Big Have Our Cars Gotten at Walker Engineering?
In the office we were discussing our current car that is too large and just not us. It runs fine, it is everything one is supposed to want, and yet, it is a car for old people, one of the many that have simply grown in size until they just aren’t what we believe represents…
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Why Is There a Helium Shortage?
One of the team was around an individual trying to refill a helium tank for producing balloons and overheard that the tank was scheduled to be refilled January 2013. Why? Where is the Helium? Experience has taught us that Helium is a crucial ingredient in MRI machines, wafer manufacturing, welding, and more. And now One…
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Surf the Wave in Oregon for Power
This just crossed my desk tonight, while Walker Engineering doesn’t work directly with power projects we have a passing interest in what goes on in Oregon in emerging technology. The idea of harvesting power from wave action has got to be, on the surface (pun intended), one of the most interesting developments recently. Read the…