The An-225 Mriya is the largest airplane ever built. It is a “strategic airlift transport aircraft” and was manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau, Kiev, Ukraine. The plane can transport some of the cargoes that are too large for the other large cargo planes of the day. What gives it this ability is its…
It’s one of the the most innovative designs the world has ever seen. It’s the Helix Hotel, soon to be built in the Persian Gulf. It looks like a stack of irregularly shaped dinner plates; in reality it contains 208 rooms, an atrium and a waterfall. The design was chosen from amongst many in a…
Dr. Karl Brommer, a scientist at BAE Systems (which has nearly 100,000 employees worldwide) has invented tiny sensors which can be mixed into paint and applied to a variety of surfaces. These sensors are “batteryless”, and get the energy they need from cell phone signals and TV signals in the immediate environment. A simple microwave…
I’ve just finished hosting another episode of the Engineering and Architecture Internet Radio Show. My guest was Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a brilliant mechanical engineer who works at the University of Bath. He and his team have developed a rapid prototyping machine that costs only $750, and which can make the parts to replicate itself. (A…
Carol Bartz, the former CEO of Autodesk, Inc., the creators of AutoCAD, the undisputed king of CAD platforms, has now become the CEO of Yahoo. We at the Magnum Group have been working with AutoCAD for almost a decade now and are deeply specialized in it. We might even go so far as to say…
