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Machines, materials and instruments: how the engineered world works, from bridges and batteries to microscopes.

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Technology is applied science with consequences you can stand on, drive across or plug in. This shelf explains the engineered world: how machines convert effort into work, how materials get chosen for the jobs they hold, and how instruments extend our senses far past their factory settings.

The guides run from the monumental to the benchtop. Bridges and dams get their engineering explained, truss by truss; engines, pumps and turbines get taken apart in prose; and the instrument entries cover microscopes, sensors and measurement tools, including what each one can and cannot honestly tell you. Materials articles explain plastics, alloys and composites by their properties, which is the only way materials make sense.

Start with the featured guides above or browse the list for a specific machine, material or instrument. Where a topic touches trades work, the article explains the engineering and leaves the practice to licensed professionals, which is exactly where it belongs.

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The Actual Difference Between Surface and Underground Mining

There are two ways to extract a mineral - by digging it up, or accessing it by tunnels. This pretty much sums up the comparison of surface vs. underground mining. But is it that simple? For a better understanding, ScienceStruck gives more differences between these two methods.

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A Brief Introduction to the Types of Surface Mining Methods

Surface mining is one of the most common and oldest ways of removing minerals from the Earth. ScienceStruck tells you what the various surface mining methods are, with the definition and facts of each.

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