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Engineering and Technology

News and Resources

• The Engineer (RSS), Telegraph RSS
• Engineering and Technology (news magazine)
• Royal Academy of Engineering (Ingenia quarterly)
• Institution of Civil Engineers
• The Babbage Blog (The Economist)

• Curious Cat (blog), Innovations News Daily (TechMediaNetwork)
• National Academy of Engineering (The Bridge quarterly, Reports)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (Last Word), Civil Engineering

University Departments

• (for Chemical Engineering departments, see Chemistry):
  Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cranfield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot Watt, Imperial (Civil), Leeds, Liverpool
  Loughborough, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen Mary, Sheffield, Southampton (Civil), Strathclyde, UCL
• Berkeley, Berlin, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Delft, École Polytechnique, ESPCI, Harvard, Lausanne, MIT
  Monash, Munich, Osaka, Rensselaer, Singapore, Stanford, Taiwan, Tokyo, Toronto, Tsinghua, ETH Zurich
  • Rankings: Engineering & IT Departments (THES-TR)
  • Shanghai Rankings (2012)
  • Civil Engineering (QS)
  • Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (QS)

Applied Technology

• Acoustics (US: links)
• Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (Southampton)
• Architectural Acoustics (Salford)
  • Heavy: I Think Mining (Blog: Jack Caldwell)
  • Exeter (mining & minerals engineering)
  • HR Wallingford (hydraulics research)
  • Oil and Gas Journal
  • Oilfield Glossary (Schlumberger)
  • Railway Technology (UK: see also History of Science)
    • Tunnels: Tunnels and Tunnelling (news)
    • Notable Tunnels (Denmark: collaborative pages. A bit scrappy)
      • Bridge Design and Engineering (UK: news)
      • Wikipedia Bridge Articles (List of Bridges)
      • ArchINFORM (large architectural database)
      • Structurae (Nicolas Janberg: & links)
      • 10 Classic Bridges ()
      • : Tacoma Bridge, Millennium Bridge
      • Projects: Dorman Long, American Bridge Co
      • Bridge Engineering (thoughts: Mark Ketchum)

Electrical Power: Research & Generation

• High-voltage Engineering: Bazet, Mississippi HV Lab, Nevada Lightning Lab
• Ohio, Southampton, TeslaMania, Magnet Lab (FSU: tutorials)
• Van Der Graaff Accelerator (WMU), Waterloo
  • Fusion. Tokamaks: Princeton, JET and MAST (Culham), ITER (Cadarache)
  • Stellarators, Lasers: LLE (Rochester)
    • Thorium Fission
    • Thorium-Based Power (from a breeder reactor, Th-232 + neutron > U-233: Wikipedia)
    • World Nuclear Association (factsheet)
    • Energy From Thorium Foundation (advocacy: Texas)
    • Weinburg Foundation (advocacy: London)
    • Flibe Energy (development: Alabama)
    • Thorium Power (research: Huddersfield University)

Sea and Sailing

• Blogs: Old Salt Blog (wide-scope), Maritime Blog (shipping)
• Strait of Magellan (sea & astronomy), Sea Fever (clips )
• Kennebec Captain (seamanship, navigation), Shipspotting ()
• See also War

• Dictionaries: SeaTalk (concise online dictionary, with blog)
• Patterson's Illustrated Nautical Dictionary (1891, PDF)
• Totten, Naval Textbook and Dictionary (1862 USN, PDF)
  • Heritage: The Athenian Trireme
  • Sailing in Art, Royal Society of Marine Artists ()
  • Old Salt Blog Galleries
  • Tea Clippers, City of Adelaide, The Cutty Sark
  • British Commission for Maritime History
  • Society for Nautical Research (publications & projects)
  • Journal of the Hakluyt Society (annual: )
  • British Maritime Museums, RN Museum
  • National Maritime Museum (Greenwich: research)
  • Royal Navy History (Wikipedia: links)
  • Association of Dunkirk Little Ships
  • Naval-History.Net (20th C, UK & US: citizen science)
  • American Maritime Museums
  • US Naval History (photo library, ship names)
  • National Maritime Historical Society (US)
  • US Naval History Blog
  • Great Ocean Liners, Cunard Liners (Chris Frame)
  • MV Doulos, Orcades, Oriana, Southern Cross, Canberra

• Engineering & Hydrography:
• Hydrographic Societies (links)
• Cambridge Coastal Research Unit
• Coastal Engineering (Delaware)
• Ocean Engineering (Rhode Island)
• See also Ocean Sciences

  • Marine Archaeology
  • Bournemouth, Nottingham, Southampton
  • Designated UK Wreck Sites (map: English Heritage)
  • Ships on the Shore (research on US shipwrecks)
  • Franck Goddio Society (Alexandria and other locations)
  • French Underwater Archaeology
  • Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology
  • Nautical Archaeology Society
  • Museum of Underwater Archaeology (online presentations of projects)
    • The Underwater Blogger

Practical

• Building: Boat Building Academy (Lyme Regis)
• Historic Editions: Desmond, Wooden Shipbuilding (1919)
• Curtis, Elements of Wood Ship Construction (1919)
• Montagu, Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship-building (1852)
  • UK Marine Postgraduate Courses
  • British Marine Federation (PDF: leisure marine courses)
    • Navigation: Trinity House, Lighthouses
    • Royal Institute of Navigation
    • Gill and Merrifield, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy (1918, PDF)
    • Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation
    • US Coast Booklet Charts
      $ Admiralty Charts (catalogue download, distributors)
      $ Stanfords (London), Kelvin Hughes (mail order)
      $ Imray (UK distributors), Sea Chest (Plymouth)
    • Admiralty Tide Tables

  • Boating: The Sailing Page, Maritime Links (John Kohnen)
  • Classic Boat (UK, with events calendar), Wooden Boat (US)
  • Daily Sail (Racing), Cruising (US), British Canals
  • Practical Boat Owner, Broadly Boats (with shipping news)
  • (Arthur Beale Chandlery, 194 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2: 0207 836 9034)
    • Shipping News: Maritime Matters
    • Lloyds List (blogs), Maritime News, IMO, gCaptain
    • Ship Monitoring (Automatic Identification System: UK,
      Channel, Greece, Other Countries, Antarctic Webcams)
    • British Shipping (statistics), UK Coastguard, Piracy
    • Commercial Shipping Terms

Aviation

• News: Flight Global (blogs), Aviation Week
• Jetwhine (fliers), The Cranky Flier (passengers: Brett Snyder)
• 30,000 Feet (directory), Enviro
• Contrail Science (blog)
• See also War

• Resources
• Royal Aeronautical Society
• Aeronautical Studies (Links from Surrey)
• Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (Records)
• NASA Aeronautics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin
• Rolls-Royce (History), SNECMA
• General Electric, Pratt & Whitney
  • Heritage
  • Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
  • UK Aviation Museums, RAF, IWM Duxford
  • RAF History (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight)
  • Royal Navy Historic Flight
  • Spitfire Society, Harrier.org (Bowing )
  • Vulcan History (and other post-1945 RAF aircraft)
  • Vulcan Restoration Trust, Lightning Association
  • Heritage Concorde, Concorde SST (last updated 2003)
  • Guild of Aviation Artists ()

  • Flight Stats (global coverage: set country)
  • Flight Radar (set area; European weather maps)
  • National Air Traffic Services (UK)
    (with Aeronautical Information, Charts)
  • Fly On Track (UK airspace guides)
  • NPPL, and CAA medical information

WWW and IT