Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Built with pennies

clipped from www.fincher.org

Hi, I'm Mitch Fincher and these pages are from a talk I gave while a Civil Engineering student at Texas Tech University.

The following is the basic pattern for building cantilevered structures with Pennies. Although it looks trivial, we can build amazing structures with these pillars. All penny columns are ten high, a "stack". Two side-by-side pennies held in place by a penny above them is called a "triad". Below is a stack with two triads resting on top.

1979-10-00-Penny13.jpg
1979-10-00-Penny14.jpg
1979-10-00-Penny15.jpg
1979-10-00-Penny16.jpg
1979-10-00-Penny17.jpg
1979-10-00-Penny18.jpg
BridgeLongView.jpg
BridgeLongView2.jpg
BridgeSideView.jpg
clipped from www.fincher.org
TowerConstructionSideView.jpg
TowerObliqueView.jpg
TowerSideDark2.jpg

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