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  • Let's take a moment to think about your morning

  • The alarm on your phone goes off at 7:03

  • you drag yourself to the shower

  • and blast yourself with perfectly warm water in an attempt to wake up.

  • You smear your toothbrush with too much toothpaste

  • and scrub yourself into a foamy mess of minty freshness.

  • You're running late, so you skate downtown

  • weaving through the commuters, dart across the road

  • barely making the lights and jump on the train just before the doors beep shut.

  • There's a couple of stops to go so you pull out your

  • phone and play a few games of Angry Birds.

  • alarms, trains, traffic lights

  • video games, toothpaste.

  • All these things were made possible by engineers.

  • But what prompts an engineer to improve our world?

  • Well, they solve problems.

  • Problems are an engineer's inspiration

  • and maths and science are the creative tools they use to solve them.

  • Problems like making your alarm go off at the right time,

  • or making sure your toothpaste is just the right balance of chemicals

  • to give you that perfect smile.

  • Or even making a game so addictive it's almost impossible to put down,

  • if that really is a problem.

  • Now let's head over to the airport and jump on an aeroplane.

  • Ahh aeroplanes, they're so easy to take for granted.

  • But don't forget, you can fly!

  • Before aeroplanes, flying was quite a bit more challenging.

  • Every bit of your plane has been touched by engineers.

  • A mechanical engineer designed the engine,

  • a mechatronics engineer devised the controls,

  • the fuel? Extracted by mining engineers

  • and refined by chemical engineers.

  • The navigation systems?

  • Electrical and software engineers created those.

  • Yep, a whole team of engineers.

  • Now we've landed in Dubai,

  • home of the Burj Khalifa.

  • It's the world's tallest building at 829.8 meters high.

  • It's also in one of the world's hottest environments,

  • reaching up to 50 degrees in summer.

  • One of the difficulties of building the Burj

  • was trying to figure out how to set forty-five thousand

  • cubic meters of reinforced concrete in such extreme weather.

  • The solution?

  • A clever method of pumping iced liquid concrete

  • into the 55,000 tonnes steel frame during the night.

  • The result?

  • A building that's vertically over 800 meters high,

  • rather than horizontally all over the ground.

  • Now let's jump into our time machine and go back to Saturday,

  • Saturday March 1932.

  • The Sydney Harbour Bridge is about to open.

  • the bridge is a marvel of civil engineering,

  • and a pretty cool place to set off some fireworks.

  • Since 1815 people had been talking about building a bridge

  • to connect the two sides of the Harbour.

  • The problem was that the harbour was so incredibly wide,

  • how could a bridge span such a width and support its own weight?

  • The solution?

  • The Romans!

  • Well actually it was an idea they came up with.

  • The arched bridge works by transferring the weight into horizontal forces,

  • and bracing them at the ends of the arch.

  • But what about the future?

  • What problems will engineers solve next?

  • Will we finally have affordable solar power?

  • Or robots that can perform life-saving surgery,

  • or a building that's so tall your view is of outer space.

  • Or how about finally engineering a working hover board?

  • Seriously, we've waited long enough.

  • So what is engineering?

  • It's solving problems.

  • It's taking crazy, out there ideas

  • and seeing if they're actually possible.

  • And when they are, the idea is shared with the world to make all our lives better

  • So, what problems do you want to solve?

Let's take a moment to think about your morning

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    Kyrie に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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