Anyone remember 'The Great Egg Race'? It was a U.K. television show from the late 70's/early 80's, and featured two competing teams of engineers using nothing but slide rules, Paisley ties and shirt collars that reached half way down their jackets to build a egg transporter out of rubber bands and bits of balsa wood. It was fantastic, riveting viewing, and I'm sure it influenced my career. The winning team (the longest distance and an unbroken egg), got nothing but kudos. Hosted by the inimitable Prof. Heinz Wolff. Back in the days when T.V. tried to educate, not just entertain the lowest common denominator...
Yeah I can agree, the TV programs those days used to be educative. Also the cartoons I used to watch were educative but now those things are long gone. Nickelodean does have some art and science tv shows but its not what kids really watch. Kids are busy playing games on their tablets these days. But I also remember the game with the same name as the tv show. Where you would have to throw the eggs to the basket above you. thought me how to calculate relative velocity and timings. Good game.
It sounds a bit like Scrapheap Challenge. Two teams had to compete to make some crazy invention from a load of junk in a scrapheap. That was a cool show! There was also another one that I actually applied to - not sure if they ever made it - where a team of engineers was dropped into a remote location (like a desert), with a plane crash, or broken truck, and they had to make some kind of vehicle to escape. It was basically 'Flight of the Phoenix' but in a reality show!
Oh my I would like to watch this. Where the engineers were dropped into a remote location with a plane crash where they had to escape from. any idea what the name was maybe I would find it on youtube.
After some Googling it looks like it's this - I'm gonna watch it - It reminds me of a story where a a man crashed his car in the desert, so he basically built a motorbike from the wreckage... but it took him twelve days and he nearly ran out of water! It's a bit stupid really because the nearest town was only 20 miles away - you could walk that in one or two days, easily. https://www.nydailynews.com/autos/p...-wrecked-car-diy-motorcycle-article-1.1107099
This is not a very nice episode, they don’t show much engineering here. They are rather busy showing how people are offended by other people’s words. I would rather want to see the fundamental engineering there. By the way the formulated crash site has an amazing story. if you like to watch it: it gives a lot of information about how to crash an airplane. and what I want you to notice is how the crash site has changed from this documentary to the time the escape episode was made. See how they scavenged the crash site.
If we are having a trip down memory lane, who remembers "Tomorrow's World"? I am not sure how many other new discoveries actually made it to the mass market lol It all looked and sounded good but not sure about the substance
Yes! I think I've mentioned this before on here but I always remember the one where they had the car in South Africa that had flamethrowers built-in underneath to deter any car jackers!
The video is nice. How did the flamethrower work? It would move its nozzle towards the car jackers and then start the flame? Or it would just blast and have a nozzle go around in all directions. Imagine keying your car bit too many times and the car starts to defend itself by burning you. would be pretty sad.
