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Explaining Complex Ideas

Cook's Illustrated article on Chocolate Mousse (links to their website)


Soil Testing: Readings

Gernot Minke, Earth Construction Handbook, (2000)

Anthony F. Merrill, The Rammed Earth House (1947)

W. C. McNown, Soil Cement Building Blocks and their Use in the Engineering Experiment Station at the University of Kansas (1945)


Stabilized Earth External Links

Understanding Stabilized Earth Blocks at MSU and KU

External Links to Stabilized Earth and Cinva websites


Arthur Ganson's Machines

His Website: http://www.arthurganson.com

Gearmaking videos [in QuickTime format. Need Plugin? go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download]
The movies show the sequence of gear construction in the following order

  1. Movie showing the start of a wire gear
  2. Movie showing the finish of a wire gear
  3. Movie showing the welding of a wire gear
  4. Movie showing the brazing of a wire gear

Child Watching Ball Movie


Building Design

Sizing your structural system