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Douglas Arnold's compact Sleipner A page explains how a 1991 offshore-platform failure traced back to a finite-element analysis error that underestimated critical shear stresses by 47 percent.
Giangrandi's personal engineering site has been online since 2002, collecting electronics projects, radio work, optics, mechanics, calculators, measurement techniques, and practical explanations in durable hand-built pages.
Automatic Beyond Belief documents the Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster line with collector photographs, model history, advertising material, and an explanation of the gloriously overengineered mechanism that lowers and raises bread without a lever or timer.
Roy Mengot's Titanic breakup page uses wreck mapping, survivor testimony, finite-element studies and ship construction details to argue for a bottom-up structural failure rather than the familiar movie version.
Cambridge Clarion documents a home-built parabolic solar kettle with measurements, failures, heat-loss estimates and enough engineering detail to show what real tinkering looks like.
Krazer Lasers preserves a hobbyist's deep archive of surplus lasers, Tesla coils, rocketry and electronics projects with the kind of specific photographic documentation that usually disappears first.
The Ludens microhydro pages document a home-built power system from trench digging and PVC pipe bending to turbine design, concrete failures and improvised field engineering.