Exploring the World from the American West

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The next three items are the best investigations in the history of technology that I have done. I think they are the most complete and correct accounts of their topics available now.Superbly Small: Alberto Santos-Dumont's Demoiselle Airplanes of 1907-1910. The story and technical details of a delightful and interesting small personal airplane from 1909.Text Copyright © 2017 - 2020 Stuart K. Wier. Reproduction, retransmission, reuse, or redistribution prohibited without prior written consent of the author. Individuals and libraries may print one copy for their personal use. Construction of Egyptian Old Kingdom Pyramids.Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1996, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 150-163.In the 1990s archaeologists and engineers finally gained a basic understanding of how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built. This is one key report.See also my further calculations Pyramid Calculations: Manpower Estimates for Khufu's Pyramid (1998).The Design of Jules Verne's Submarine Nautilus the latest revision of 2015. Published in Extraordinary Voyages, vol. 19, no. 3, June 2013, pp. 1-24. Text and original diagrams and illustrations Copyright © 2015 Stuart K. Wier. Reproduction, retransmission, reuse, or redistribution prohibited without prior written consent of the author. Individuals and libraries may print one copy for their use. Replicas of the "Demoiselle" Aircraft of Alberto Santos-Dumont, through 2019. Text Copyright © 2019 Stuart K. Wier. Reproduction, retransmission, reuse, or redistribution prohibited without prior written consent of the author. Airplane Design #3: the Bumblebee.Inspired by the Demoiselle No. 20 of September 1909 of Alberto Santos-Dumont, with updated design principles and materials. Not a "copy" or a "replica;" some old weaknesses are fixed with modern treatments. This should have clearly better performance than the "Damselfly", next, and is basically a modern U.S. ultralight.Airplane Design #2: the Damselfly.A fairly close copy of the Demoiselle No. 20 of September 1909, using modern materials and slighly modified specifications for overall improvements but with the same configuration, and so it could lift a modern pilot.Should be more airworthy and stronger than the original. This would be useful mostly for airshows, flights less than 20 miles, and altitudes of a few hundred feet.Aircraft Design #1: The B1-RD - Demoiselle.Modifying the excellent ultralight aircraft Robertson B1-RD to more resemble the 1909 Demoiselle by Alberto Santos-Dumont. March 15, 2016 Aircraft designs Copyright © 2016 - 2020 Stuart K. Wier. Not for use in aircraft construction. Reproduction, retransmission, reuse, or redistribution prohibited without prior written consent of the author. The GPS velocity viewer A digital tool to show a map view of the speed and directionof points on the Earth's surface, caused by tectonic (geological) motions, as measured by high-precision GPS instruments. This also can show tectonic plate boundaries, volcano locations, and historic earthquake locations.This is the smallest, and most successful, software project I did at UNAVCO. GNSS Quality Analysis Plotting programs Anubisplot and teqcplot.py. If you work with GNSS and GPS high precision observations, RINEX files, and teqc or Anubis, you may find these useful.If these words puzzle you, just forget it. I did this for my personal interest without UNAVCO support.Vertical crustal velocities in the western US from GPS. An early research report attempting to estimate crustal vertical uplift rates from GPS data, in 2011, when such measurements were just beginning to emerge from the noise. The results are interesting and plausible. Maps of data were made with the UNACO IDV, and objective analysis (gridding)was computed inside the IDV.Continuous Fields of Ground Displacement Determined by Barnes Analysis of GPS Locations for the 11 March 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake. April 3, 2011. The next three items are about my work on using numerical weather forecast model output to generate weathersurface forecasts at every point in the area covered by the forecast (such as North America), including adjustments for surface altitude.The National Weather Service (NWS) operates some of the best numerical weather forecast models (computer forecasts) in the world.Twenty years ago these forecasts were for conditions inside the atmosphere, to provide guidance for NWS human forecasts, not surface weather forecasts for where people live, and the results were not available to the public. My work was the initial concept for the National Weather Service computer-generated 'graphical' and 'point' weather forecasts, which you can request for any location,using for example the most recent digital toolNWS Graphical Forecasts. The data in these digital forcasts are initially generated by computer, and then reviewed and edited where necessary by human forecasters.Compare the map displays in the new digital tool from the NWS to the weather maps in my report from 1997Overview of "Model-based Initialization": Generating Initial Surface Forecast Values from NCEP Models . Reports of related work: Using Numerical Model Output to Provide Initial Forecasts of Surface Weather (1996)Designing a Sundial for Clock Time. How you can design a sundial for any location, which gives clock time correct to a minute or two. Website Use report. Average count per month of views or article downloads, January through June 2019.Total site visits January through June 2019 = 101046, averaging 550 per day. My reports on the native trees of Colorado have about as much demand as everything else put together.The most significant items published here are the original investigations in the history of technology: "Construction of Egyptian Old Kingdom Pyramids", "Superbly Small: Alberto Santos-Dumont and his Demoiselle Airplanes","The Design of Jules Verne's Submarine Nautilus," and "The Firearms of Lewis and Clark."

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