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A Whale-Oiled Machine - 99% Invisible (99percentinvisible.org)
submitted 1 year ago by kersploosh to c/engineering
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This 99% Invisible podcast touches on the history of mechanical lubrication, from vegetable oils to whale blubber to modern synthetics. Featuring Bill Nye the Science Guy, who is apparently a direct descendant of William Foster Nye, the founder the Nye Lubricants.

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[–] clay_pidgin 1 points 1 year ago

I highly recommend the podcast series, as well as their book "the 99% invisible city". Both are about all the design and engineering work that goes invisible into everything in the built world.