Vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials: window farms.
Roadtown – a Railway in the Basement, a Promenade upon the Roof
“The Roadtown is a scheme to organize production, transportation and consumption into one systematic plan. In an age of pipes and wires, and high speed railways such a plan necessitates the building in one dimension instead of three – the line distribution of population instead of the pyramid style of construction. The rail-pipe-and-wire civilization and the increase in the speed of transportation is certain to result in the line distribution of population because of the almost unbelievable economy in construction, in operation and in time.”
“Roadtown“, Edgar Chambless, 1910.
How To Transport Oil in a Post-Oil World
“Barriques tournantes pour le transport des denrées” or “Turning barrels to transport goods”, from the “Bulletin de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’industrie Nationale”, june 1822.
Building With Whole Trees
November 16, 2009 by Filed Under: Construction, Wood
Online Multimedia Museum of Machine Motion
November 13, 2009 by Filed Under: Books & Reference, Mechanics, Obsolete technology, Random
Reader Mathew Lippincott (check out his mutoscope) points us to Kinematic Models for design (KMODDL), an open access, multimedia resource for learning & teaching about kinematics and the history & theory of machines.
The core of this wonderful museum is the Reuleaux collection of mechanisms and machines, a set of 19th century models built to demonstrate the elements of machine motion (more collections here). Also of interest are the tutorials and this extensive list of online references.
KMODDL also has 3D-printable models (see the multimedia section) and some of these have stereolithography files. They can be viewed with Meshlab. Thank you, Mathew!
