Nobody thinks of them as equipment, which is what they are. Here are eleven jobs.
1. Trapping a Layer of Still Air
Most of the insulating effect is not the…
It stopped being alive and it never stopped moving. Here are fifteen.
1. It Is a Bundle of Tubes, Not a Solid
Wood is built from long hollow cells that…
Small, cheap and doing more than it looks like. Here are twelve.
1. Nearly All the Cooling Happens at the Melt
Warming ice from freezer temperature to zero takes a…
Almost everything that makes a chair comfortable or unbearable was decided by a handful of measurements, and they interact. Here are fifteen.
1. Seat Height Decides Everything Else
The distance…
Prints deteriorate through several separate processes, some driven by light, some by chemistry and some by whatever they were stored in. Here are fifteen.
1. Colour Prints Are Made of…
Every surface in a home collects the same grey film, and it is a record of everything that has been shed, tracked in or blown through recently. Here are fifteen…