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Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth
7:53
Sphere Earth Conspiracy - Geodesy
3:41
Boil Water at Room Temperature! - Hydrostatics
10:07
Design Your Own Space Elevator
10:01
The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)
7:45
What is a Tuned Mass Damper?
9:37
Groundwater Flow Demonstration Model
3:49
Arduino Garden Controller - Automatic Watering and Data Logging
9:13
Dam and Reservoir Civil Engineer Career Day Display
5:39
How to build a wall-mounted cat tree
4:38
What's that Infrastructure? (Ep. 1 - Transportation Infrastructure)
4:16
What's that Infrastructure? (Ep. 2 - More Transportation Infrastructure)
6:12
What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 3 - Hydraulic Structures)
5:21
Rivers on Mars! (and other uses for hydraulic models)
8:16
What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 4 - Subsurface Utilities)
6:08
What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 5 - Wireless Telecommunications)
5:16
The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
4:21
How Do Sinkholes Form?
6:41
How does land surveying work?
6:26
How Quicksand Causes Dam Failures
4:46
How Soil Destroys Buildings
8:09
What is Water Hammer?
7:40
What is Steam Hammer?
6:39
How to Collapse a Pipe by Closing a Valve
4:55
Why Bridges Move...
7:17
What is Concrete?
9:11
Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement
8:11
What is Cavitation? (with AvE)
8:25
Why Tunnels Don't Collapse
8:40
Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed
8:48
Does Rebar Rust?
7:49
Was Roman Concrete Better?
9:34
What is Prestressed Concrete?
8:47
How Water Towers Work
11:00
What is a Hydraulic Jump?
8:43
What is a Weir?
8:23
The Most Dangerous Dams
8:40
How are Underwater Structures Built?
8:18
How Do Traffic Signals Work?
12:37
How Do Spillways Work?
8:15
How Does the Power Grid Work?
10:25
How Electricity Generation Really Works
9:59
How Do Substations Work?
12:38
How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?
9:50
World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)
9:13
How Power Blackouts Work
9:46
Compress Air with No Moving Parts! - Trompe
8:50
What is Air Lock?
9:46
Why Pipes Move Underground
12:03
The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks
10:37
What Is a Culvert?
10:20
Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?
10:01
How Are Highways Designed?
12:21
The World's Most Recycled Material
11:20
How Does Permeable Pavement Work?
10:14
Where Does Stormwater Go?
11:48
Why Engineers Invent Floods
10:44
How Do Flood Control Structures Work?
11:18
How Coastal Erosion Works
9:44
What is Storm Surge?
10:25
What Really Happened at the Suez Canal?
11:34
Do Pumps Create Pressure or Flow?
10:38
What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
18:27
How Sewers Work (feat. Fake Poop)
12:28
What Really Happened at the Arecibo Telescope?
17:58
Why Cranes Collapse
15:40
Why Things Fall Off Cranes
12:22
Why SpaceX Cares About Concrete
14:10
What Really Happened At Edenville and Sanford Dams?
14:15
Why SpaceX Cares About Dirt
13:48
What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?
13:32
Why Retaining Walls Collapse
12:51
Rebuilding the Oroville Dam Spillways
20:38
Why Buildings Need Foundations
14:51
How Do We Pump Sewage?
12:14
How to Clean Sewage with Gravity
11:51
The Most Mindblowing Infrastructure in My City
8:58
What Sewage Treatment and Brewing Have in Common
13:18
The Engineering Behind Russia's Deadlocked Pipeline: Nord Stream 2
12:17
How Wells & Aquifers Actually Work
14:13
The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures
14:02
4 Myths About Construction Debunked
14:36
How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth?
14:53
What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry?
13:42
You Spend More on Rust Than Gasoline (Probably)
13:46
What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood?
11:34
What Really Happened at the New Harbor Bridge Project?
21:52
What's the Difference Between Paint and Coatings?
14:23
The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space Shuttle
16:04
How This Bridge Was Rebuilt in 15 Days After Hurricane Ian
12:14
How Different Spillway Gates Work
15:16
What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
12:13
Why Some Roads Are Made of Styrofoam
15:53
The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water
19:07
Why Rivers Move
17:48
Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget
18:41
Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers
15:53
How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)
17:08
What Really Happened During the Gas Explosions in the Merrimack Valley?
16:44
How Flood Tunnels Work
13:54