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Bill Hammack's audio and video work emphasizes the creative role of engineers in designing and creating our world. He's a regular commentator on radio - based at Illinois Public Radio in Urbana he's appeared on public radio's premier business program Marketplace, and on Radio National Australia's Science Show. Many engineering, science, and journalistic groups have re ...cognized his work.

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How the First Transistor...

Added 07-Dec-10
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Bill uses a replica of the point contact transistor build by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen at Bell Labs. On December 23, 1947 they used this device...
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How the First Transist... 04:46

Black Box: Inside a Flight...

Added 30-Nov-10
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Bill opens up a vintage "black box" from a Delta airlines jetliner. He describes how the box withstands high temperatures and crash velocities because...
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Black Box: Inside a Fl... 02:14

Coffee Maker: Pumping Water...

Added 23-Nov-10
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Bill takes apart a coffee maker to show how hot water is pumped from through it using a "bubble pump" - a device that has almost no moving parts using...
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Coffee Maker: Pumping... 02:39

Pop Can Stay-on Tab (slow...

Added 16-Nov-10
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Using slow motion video Bill Hammack shows the ingenious engineering design of a pop can stay-on tab. To use the least amount of material it was...
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Pop Can Stay-on Tab (s... 02:17

IBM Selectric Typewriter & Its...

Added 09-Nov-10
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Using slow motion video Bill Hammack, the engineer guy, shows how IBM's revolutionary "golf ball" typewriter works. He describes the marvelous...
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IBM Selectric Typewrit... 03:04

The Whiffletree: A Mechanical...

Added 09-Nov-10
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Early calculating devices and computers used mechanical digital to analogue converters. This video describes one based on an arrangement of metal bars...
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The Whiffletree: A Mec... 02:28

Copier: A Playful Look at How...

Added 18-Jul-10
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Bill finds a photocopier and takes it apart to find the four essential elements needed to make a copy; he uses them to outline the five main steps of...
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Copier: A Playful Look... 03:40

What is Really in a Landfill?

Added 21-Feb-10
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Bill Hammack cover his office floor with trash to see what takes up space in a landfill. He digs through fast food containers, newspapers and diapers...
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What is Really in a La... 03:25

Copper: The Miracle Metal

Added 05-Feb-10
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Bill cuts a copper pipe from his ceilng to show the five properties of copper that make it the most important metal for our world: From clean water to...
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Copper: The Miracle Metal 03:25

Tantalum: Nutmeg of the West

Added 16-Jan-10
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Using a large hammer Bill Hammack demonstrates how our electronic world depends on an tantalum recovered from Coltan, which is found half-way around...
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Tantalum: Nutmeg of th... 02:50

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