AMAZING FEATS OF ENGINEERING

As a fan of shows like “Modern Marvels” and “Build it Bigger” I’ve always been fascinated with giant bridges, buildings, tunnels, and other man-made wonders. My absolute favorite engineering accomplishment is something on a smaller scale, it’s claim to fame being speed. Co-developed by the the British and French governments in the sixties, Concorde still…

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HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

This is a recent infographic I created showing the process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, to accompany an online Q&A with Dr. Robert Earle of Analysis Group. Fracking is a well-stimulation process for extracting natural gas from shale deposits. Though the practice holds a lot of promise, it might also negatively impact the environment. Seismic…

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LIGHTHOUSE CUTAWAY ART

Lighthouses have a romantic, slightly haunting feeling about them. I took a tour of one as a kid and I remember peering upwards into the close spaces of the inner tower and feeling a little creeped out, imagining some poor guy ascending the steps on a dark, stormy night to illuminate the lantern. They’re fascinating…

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TECHNOLOGY IN SPORTS

As a fan of professional tennis, I thought it would be fun to create an infographic of the amazing video replay technology that’s used to call lines on the ATP and WTA tours. The officiating system, known commercially as Hawk-Eye, uses an array of cameras that feed three dimensional coordinates of the flight of the…

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