The Peripatetic Engineer

The "Cochon de Lait" bill is signed and we all have to live with it. I used it to demonstrate the practical application of Scienti...

The fact that Germany had a midget submarine program in WW II is not well known. The most likely reason is, like the Japanese midget submar...

For years there was a small submarine sitting in Jackson Square in New Orleans. It looked vaguely like it came from the Civil War era but t...

I was impressed recently to learn the Combination of Rothes Distillers, Ltd . is planning to build a 7.2 megawatt power generating facility ...

In the news today we learn that 7 people have been hospitalized in Japan with poisoning from eating F ugu - the Japanese blowfish . Fugu i...

Back before the new millennium, I was working on a project in Russia. The idea was to assemble an offshore drilling rig that had been floate...

This is an innovative piece of Ocean Engineering called the “Bottom Feeder”. It was built to salvage platforms that were destroyed in hurric...