Overall I liked this book. Being a fan of this type of stuff (and Grady's YouTube channel) I was familiar with a lot of what the booked covered, but still found interesting tidbits throughout. A wind turbine is most efficient when the tips of the blades are moving about 4 to 7 times the speed of the wind. The blades have variable pitch to make it so. p. 11. A "file MD5" is a hash that gets computed from the file contents, and is reasonably unique based on that content. All shadow libraries that we have indexed on here primarily use MD5s to identify files. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us.

Antonio Padilla's Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality A wonderful explanation of all sorts of engineering practices. Author Grady Hillhouse is quite thorough as he give clear explanations to everything that engineers must design and deal with.Grady is the perfect person to explain engineering to us . . . he's a brilliant storyteller who can translate that knowledge into engaging tales that even the technically-challenged among us can dig into. His book [ Engineering in Plain Sight] is the perfect extension of this unique skill set. By taking a concept usually applied to the natural world - a field guide! - and applying it to the, um, non-natural one, he's helped me understand for the first time basic but important things ... like how a cell tower actually works." With colorful, and mostly clear illustrations showing lots and lots of details about the way things -- dams, roadways, wind turbines, etc. -- are designed to work, this book supplied me with a large dollop of information about public engineering. It's a really nice effort.

A plain explanation of every day engineering . . . [with] enough detail to satisfy even a lot of detailed questions about infrastructure." Written for anybody that just wants to learn about the world around them . . . I highly recommend it."This is a 'Bob the Builder' guide for young adults and older who are curious about common miracles of engineering. From asphalt to voltage regulators, they'll never look at the world the same." Highly readable and illustrated with plenty of diagrams, making the material accessible to non-engineers . . . it would serve very well as a reference book for classrooms and the school library." The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask This is an awesome read that I would recommend to anyone with even a passing interest in the constructed world around them.