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Book Review: Eight Amazing Engineering Stories by Bill Hammack

Posted on March 28, 2020April 10, 2022
Topics: Natural Sciences, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.3/10.

Short pieces about material science and engineering, picked it up when somebody recommended this book over the “Stuff Matters” book as a more technical tour of material science. The author is famous for the Engineering Guy YouTube channel.

The book goes through a bunch of topics: digital cameras, smartphone accelerometers, atomic clocks, uranium refinement, microwaves, lasers, etc. I found it quite difficult to understand the technical details which went way too quickly: for example I got that uranium 235 and 238 are similar in weight and takes a energy-intensive centrifuge to separate, but didn’t follow the details of how the centrifuge worked. There’s a series of accompanying videos that help a little bit, but I was still confused most of the time.

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