Remembering the 1968 Olympics When One Man Defied Convention and Changed a Sport Forever

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, high jumper Dick Fosbury shocked the world
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, high jumper Dick Fosbury shocked the world
Scientist Masahiko Sato uses glass, oil, and refraction to create an invisible Rube Goldberg machine
How do you measure big forces accurately? By calibrating your force transducer on the world’s biggest weight – 1,000,000 pounds of force
If you put carbon fiber under any load other than tension, the strength just disappears
Compressed air can be used to levitate rounded objects. Sometimes said rounded objects start spinning so fast that they give up on being round objects.
Who said lawn mowers can’t fly?
Electrostatic charged fabric, why didn’t I think of that!
The rotation time for the last gear would take 52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years to complete once
This thing is so cool!
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