9 years ago
Behind the scenes of Otherlab & its soft robots, exoskeletons & intestine tanks
In the 1890s, a former gold miner and inventor set up shop in a building on 19th Street in San Francisco to manufacture a next-generation ultra efficient water wheel. Lester Pelton, whose device is called the Pelton water wheel, is now recognized as one of the fathers of hydroelectric power. A little more than 125 years…
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