Almost everyone pictures an anchor as a heavy thing dropped on the bottom, holding a boat by sheer mass. If that were how it worked, no ship could carry an…
Corrugated board is one of those inventions so completely ordinary that it is hard to see as an invention at all. Something like a hundred billion boxes are made from…
There is a container that solves several problems at once, which is why it lasted for two thousand years and why nothing replaced it until very recently.
The problems are…
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can.
Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material…
There is an idea about sailing that seems obviously true and is only half the story.
The idea is that a sail is a bag that catches the wind and…
Almost every visible feature of a transmission line is a solution to one of two problems: keeping the electricity in the wire, and keeping the wire in the air. Here…