The Lab With Brad

Lithography, photography, and a side order of engines

The first application of nanotechnology was to build our modern computers. Join us for a look at how that got started.

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Here’s a link to an episode that covers what we do this time, but with slightly different details.

Ep 286: Say cheese!

And here are a couple of links on the Pyréolophore, one of the earliest internal combustion engines.

The Pyréolophore: a new engine principle

All hail the Pyréolophore

Don’t lick the stalagmite!

Our heroes do battle down in the catacombs.

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With a wee bit of quantum squinting

With a very fine needle and lots of number crunching, you can see atoms by using the scanning tunneling microscope.

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Here’s some stuff on piezo electrics.

Piezoelectric Effect Explained using a simple physical model

Understanding Piezoelectric effect!

And here are a few things about the scanning tunneling microscope.

Classroom Aid - Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Surface studies with a scanning tunnelling microscope

The battle of Boylston

A mechanical fish, fancy pillow, marching gnomes, and flying arrows.

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Lasers!

We talk of the history of lasers, and a little bit about how they do what they do.

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Here are two videos on lasers, and their history and function.

The History of Lasers - How Lasers Were Invented - Who Invented the Laser?

A Brief History of Lasers

Using electrons instead of light

When you want to see the very tiny, why not use something very tiny? Join us for a look at the hows and whys of electron microscopes.

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Here’s a video on the birth of the scanning electron microscope.

The Difficult Birth of the Scanning Electron Microscope

And here are a couple of articles about the beginning of electron microscopes in general.

History of Electron Microscope

The development of the electron microscope

No really, the horse was on fire!

Our heroes fight their most deadly enemy yet, then get grilled by K’Lar.

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Nobody get stoned

Pulling levers and pushing buttons, they take a ride and deal with a rascally little devil.

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Spooky lines, destroying the universe, and the birth of quantum physics

In this episode we deal with the spooky topic of quantum physics, at least, how and why it got started.

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Clear water revival

After getting a magic ring from Tarry the turtle, our heroes start their search for the axe of the archon with the frog folk of Clear Water Lake.

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