193lb nut and bolt used in Grand Coulee Dam

Look at that monster!

This is a 193lb nut and bolt used in the Grand Coulee Dam, which is on the Columbia River in Washington. It is one of 16 used to join sections of the generator shaft of a 75,000 kW generator. The picture is from 1942 and I found it somehow on Wikipedia.

 

 For reference, here's the dam:

OK Go's Rube Goldberg machine

Found on wired.com: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/ok-go-rube-goldberg/

A while ago the band OK Go made a music video for their song This Too Shall Pass which featured a giant Rube Goldberg machine in tune with the music. It took an hour to reset and a month and a half to build.



A Rube Goldberg machine gets something done in a complex way with many steps, often only accomplishing something simple. It's named after the cartoonist who drew such silly mechanisms and described how they (should) work.

World Builder short film

Cool and interesting short film. Guy makes a virtual world for his sweetheart.