Practical Engineering

What’s the Deal with Base Plates?

The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?

1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours

Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?

When Infrastructure Gets Hacked

The Hidden Engineering of Landfills

Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?

How French Drains Work

When Natural Gas Had No Smell

Why Bridges Don't Sink

This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed

The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions

Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

Why Fish Ladders (Mostly) Work

How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works

How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines

How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad

Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires

How The Channel Tunnel Works

How Railroad Crossings Work

How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5

How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4

Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3

Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2

Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1

Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes

Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?

Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained

Why Is Desalination So Difficult?

Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?

How Flood Tunnels Work

What Really Happened During the Gas Explosions in the Merrimack Valley?

How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)

East Palestine Train Derailment Explained

Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers

Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget

Why Rivers Move

The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water

Why Some Roads Are Made of Styrofoam

What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?

How Different Spillway Gates Work

How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian

What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?

How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?

How Would a Nuclear EMP Affect the Power Grid?

Engineering In Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space Shuttle

What's the Difference Between Paint and Coatings?

What Really Happened at the New Harbor Bridge Project?

These Metals Sacrifice Themselves to Prevent Rust

What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood?

You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably)

What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry?

How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth?

4 Myths About Construction Debunked

The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures

How We Track COVID-19 (And Other Weird Stuff) In Sewage

How Wells & Aquifers Actually Work

The Engineering Behind Russia's Deadlocked Pipeline: Nord Stream 2

What Sewage Treatment and Brewing Have in Common

The Most Mindblowing Infrastructure in My City

How to Clean Sewage with Gravity

What Really Happened During the 2003 Blackout?

How Do We Pump Sewage?

Why Buildings Need Foundations

Rebuilding the Oroville Dam Spillways

Why Retaining Walls Collapse

What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?

Why SpaceX Cares About Dirt

What Really Happened At Edenville and Sanford Dams?

Why SpaceX Cares About Concrete

Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible

Why Things Fall Off Cranes

Surfside Condo Collapse: What We Know So Far

Why Cranes Collapse

What Really Happened at the Arecibo Telescope?

How Sewers Work (feat. Fake Poop)

What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge?

The Fluid Effects That Kill Pumps

What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?

Do Pumps Create Pressure or Flow?

What Really Happened at the Suez Canal?

Flow and Pressure in Pipes Explained

What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?

What is Storm Surge?

How Coastal Erosion Works

How Do Flood Control Structures Work?

Why Engineers Invent Floods

Where Does Stormwater Go?

How Does Permeable Pavement Work?

How Do Potholes Work?

The World's Most Recycled Material

How Are Highways Designed?

Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?

What Is a Culvert?

The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks

Why Pipes Move Underground

What is Air Lock?

Compress Air with No Moving Parts! - Trompe

How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

How Power Blackouts Work

World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?

How Do Substations Work?

How Electricity Generation Really Works

How Does the Power Grid Work?

How Do Spillways Work?

How Do Traffic Signals Work?

How are Underwater Structures Built?

The Most Dangerous Dams

What is a Weir?

What is a Hydraulic Jump?

How Water Towers Work

What is Prestressed Concrete?

Was Roman Concrete Better?

Does Rebar Rust?

Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed

Why Tunnels Don't Collapse

What is Cavitation? (with AvE)

How to Detect Muons!

Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement

What is Concrete?

Why Bridges Move...

How to Collapse a Pipe by Closing a Valve

What is Steam Hammer?

What is Water Hammer?

How Soil Destroys Buildings

How Quicksand Causes Dam Failures

How to Super-Size the Eclipse - Sun Funnel

How does land surveying work?

How Do Sinkholes Form?

The Physics of Falling Back in your Chair

What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 5 - Wireless Telecommunications)