Engineering
repurposing a purpose’s purpose
The Toilet - one of the best inventions ever to have been created
The toilet created by Thomas Crapper has ever since changed the world. The brilliant invention works so well it adds an extra 20 years to your life. But about half the world don’t have access to these magical things and have to use a hole instead. These poor people are normally from poor counties like Africa, Iran, Afghanistan and so on, and can die much sooner than others from lack of food water and sanitation. The first toilet was actually first invented by the romans. The modern toilet is just a flush toilet (first made by the Victorians) perfected. the toilet got its name from the Middle French word 'toile' ("cloth")that had a diminutive form: 'toilette', or "small piece of cloth." This word became 'toilet' in English, and referred to a cloth put over the shoulders while dressing the hair or shaving.
Engineering of boats
Boats come in many different shapes and sizes for many different purposes, including racing, cruising, fishing and travel.
You can find out the different types by just looking at them, for example a sailing boat would normally have a big sail and a narrow hull, a cruising boat for luxury cruises would be medium to large with a wide hull and no sail replaced by engines and places to lounge around. Speed boats are normally smaller, streamlined and sometimes many-engined. Fishing boats vary from sizes small to big, they usually have a cabin, sometimes a sail and fishing nets and boxes. And now come the big boys. We have ferries and cruise liners, oil tankers and cargo ships and the clue to finding out what they are is in their name and in their shape.
Now these are the bigger ships - destroyers meant for destruction and war, cruisers which are normally medium class battleships and then we have attack boats like the armoured craft normally used for boarding enemy ships and there are aircraft carriers which carry aircraft into battle and one of the funny things about them is their weakness is what they carry so the latest ones have been armed with anti aircraft canons and anti missile defence systems.
The engineers who make war boats are very smart but these are very destructive weapons which have killed thousands of people and are designed to killed thousands of people. They are putting their skill that could be used for making better designs for fishing boats, oil tankers so they have protection against reefs so they can’t spill oil, cargo ships so they have better protection against pirates.
BREAKING THE RULES OF BUILDING THINGS
If you are building a boat a car a building or basically making anything, here’s what you are going to want to tell the thing you are making. If you have say, a rocket ship, it doesn’t know the rules of gravity so you can defy them. There are things we haven’t discovered are possible yet so you don’t have to follow the rules people say.
The rules of time for example, can’t we defy them too? If we have time like we made time on our planet but still everywhere else in the universe time is different. Even if I was standing in front of someone my time would be undefinably faster or slower. We are at different parts of the planet and we can’t merge inside each other so we can’t be on the same timescale as one another. And we think of time on other planets as slower or faster but who said that’s how it is.
RNLI boat
Below you will see the amazing RNLI search and rescue boat from Ilfracombe in Devon. It measures 13m meters long and weighs 18 tonnes. This brilliant feat of engineering was paid for entirely by a great couple who felt the need to help with the rescue effort here in Briton. This particular life boat the Shannon is the first all weather life boat in the RNLI fleet. It is powered completely by water jets instead of the usual propellers making her the most agile and manoeuvrable boat yet. Using only water jets it is capable of 25 knots. With water jets alone it uses 1.5 tonnes of water every second. It also contains state of the art self righting technology. The naming of the Shannon follows a tradition of naming boats after rivers but this is the first time an Irish river has been chosen. The river Shannon is 240 miles long and is the longest river in Ireland.
The amazing engineering of the RNLI lifeboat at Ilfracombe in Devon
