#Mechanics

Author: Sofie Tapia / Source: Bored Panda They say true love never fades, by flowers do – that is until a developer from the Czech Republic invented a mechanical flower for his wife that is as everlasting as their love. Jiří Praus a “developer during the day, hardware maker at night,” outdid

Source: Atlas Obscura It started with clocks. It was the 1960s and the German collector Siegfried Wendel had amassed a collection of well over 100 grandfather and wall clocks. Then one fateful day, a young couple in a beat-up Volkswagen appeared on Wendel’s doorstep to see if he might just be

Source: Futility Closet The world’s longest airplane flight took place in 1958, when two aircraft mechanics spent 64 days above the southwestern U.S. in a tiny Cessna with no amenities. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll follow the aerial adventures of Bob Timm and John

The U.K.’s Met Office issued a ‘yellow’ warning after dumps of snow over the weekend disrupted travel, sending the price of same-day heating gas prices to their highest since 2013... The average temperature in the U.K. for the rest of Monday will be 1 degree Celsius (34 Fahrenheit), compared with

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Scientists are warning that 2018 won’t be as “easy” on us as 2017 was when it comes to the number of severe earthquakes they predict. In 2018, Earth, and one billion of its inhabitants could face 20 severe earthquakes due to the slowing rotation of the