Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Safety Engineering. 12 pages.
Between 1899 and 1910 the living body became an object of measurement, controlled energy delivery and remote manipulation. How each of those three problems was actually solved.
Two machines that move in opposite directions and solve the same problem: making ground and height usable without disturbing what is already there.
Four milestones in which building height stopped being limited by structure and started being limited by economics.
Industrial ammonia synthesis resolved a direct conflict between thermodynamics and kinetics, and in doing so established catalysis, high pressure, recycle and continuous operati…
Three milestones in which software became the thing keeping a machine stable, and one standard written because that made software a structural safety concern.
Three milestones that made the engine small enough to move, by doing the one thing James Watt refused to do.
Seven formal investigations between 1979 and 2010 that changed engineering practice across industries. In every one, the physical mechanism was known or knowable beforehand.
Two celebrated bridges and one destroyed one. The collapse taught the profession more than either success, and the mechanism is still widely taught wrongly.
Three devices that take over the function of an organ, under constraints unlike anything else in engineering: the load cannot be reduced and there is no safe shutdown state.
Three milestones producing the clearest example of fail-safe design anywhere in this set: a brake that applies itself when its own control system fails.
Three milestones that made stored electricity dense enough to move a vehicle, then fast enough and cheap enough to stabilise a grid.
A cased, drilled well and fractional distillation created an industry in two years. How well construction, barrier philosophy and refinery architecture actually work.