Monday, November 28, 2022
Ethan Jo is a senior at TPS this year, and quite ancient by the standards of high school seniors, though he’s been told he doesn’t look it. Thanks to two awesome parents, he’s been a proud homeschooled student for thirteen years, four of which he spent here at the crazy […]
Since Otis revealed the first fully automatic, multi-car elevator system in 1948, automation has been creeping silently, or not so silently, into our everyday lives. Now, automation appears in almost everything from the washing machine that can determine just how much water to use every cycle to the computers that […]
Disclaimer: Ethan Jo, upon careful review of Vizzini’s advice, does not guarantee that success can be reached according to these procedures. Building an elevator requires experience with electronics, structural forces, and, most of all, ample money. Vizzini mentions none of these crucial elements. Proceed at your own risk. So, […]
If It’s Boeing, I’m not Going. In 1967, the first Boeing 737 came off the production lines in Seattle, Washington. In the fifty-four years since that date, over ten thousand 737s have been produced, making it one of the most ubiquitous aircraft in the whole world. Then, in October 2018, […]
On March 28, 1979, reactor TMI 2 at the Three Mile Island power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania experienced a partial meltdown, which released unknown amounts of radiation into the surrounding area and damaged the reactor beyond repair. It also damaged something else beyond repair: the reputation of nuclear energy as […]