If you are curious and you like to learn new things, then don’t miss this collection of GIFs that will teach you how the things around us work.
It’s like watching a documentary in 10 seconds. I didn’t know some of these were made like this!
If you are curious and you like to learn new things, then don’t miss this collection of GIFs that will teach you how the things around us work.
It’s like watching a documentary in 10 seconds. I didn’t know some of these were made like this!
An ice cream cone is a dry, conical-shaped paste usually made of wafer, which allows you to take ice cream without the need for a bowl and a spoon.
Multiple pencils start from a single block of wood, usually cedar, which is divided into slats in which the clefts are made to place the mines. Glue is then applied in the grooves of the boards, and graphite mines are placed in each of them. After this, the other block of wood is placed on top and then pencils are given their shapes.
The crayon is a bar made of wax, charcoal, chalk or other materials that comes in different colors and is used to draw and color. A crayon made of dry resin and pigment is called a pastel crayon and when it is made of oily chalk, it is called pastel to oil.
While your baby is developing at full steam and forming gradually, your organs adapt to the wonderful metamorphosis you are experiencing. The stomach, lungs, liver, bladder, intestines and even the heart are pushed aside to allow the baby to grow in its own space.
Hangers are pieces made of wood or iron that hold your clothes in the closet. Although it seems that they are made by hand, iron hangers like the one you get at the dry cleaner's are made as shown.
Glue is that pasty liquid or substance (that could have varied components, as long as they are sticky!) that serves to adhere things. This is how a glue factory works. Neat, right?
Popcorn is a snack made from some special varieties of corn. Maize grains of a special type are used to make them, which are placed in a pot or container and roasted (usually fried in vegetable oil) until the explosion occurs.
This is the process used by your washing machine to work, and in addition to cleaning your clothes, to lose a sock or two.
The compact disc (known as CD) is an optical disc used to store data in digital format, regardkess if its type (audio, images, video, documents and other data).
Ammunition (or a bullet, in this case) is a solid object in the form of a projectile which is accelerated by the concentration of chemical energy that upon being released is propelled mechanically, being rectified through a solid tube in order to cause deliberate injury or damage.
Fresh egg pasta is made with flour and eggs, sometimes a little water is added, especially depending on the type of flour or the size of the eggs. On other occasions only egg yolks are added. There are traditional recipes that carry up to 40 egg yolks per kilo of flour.
Just seeing this makes you hungry, right? This is how they make those yummy Pop Tarts you buy in stores or supermarkets. What a treat!
A digital camera is a camera that, instead of capturing and storing photographs in chemical film like photographic film cameras, uses digital photography to generate and store images. Modern digital cameras usually have several functions and contain devices capable of recording sound and/or video as well as photography.
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy where the solar system is located and within it, our plant Earth. According to the observations, it has a mass of 10¹² solar masses and is a barred spiral. This is how planets move around the sun.
Stop Motion movies are made frame by frame, which means everything you see on the movie is a real prop which needs to be moved by a real person in order to look animated on the film. The movie from this gif, Coraline, is an American animated film written and directed by Henry Selick, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.
A gun is a short fire weapon designed to be aimed and fired with one hand, or with two. Although the first pistols were created in the seventeenth century as auxiliary weapons of the cavalry, the term "gun" referred to the small daggers and daggers that were hidden between the clothes.
A marble is a small sphere of glass, alabaster, ceramic, clay, metal, glass, steel, stone, marble, wood or porcelain that is used in various children's games. This is also the make of several games in which marbles are used.
A ventilator is a fluid machine, more precisely a turbomachine that transmits energy to generate the necessary pressure where a continuous flow of air is maintained. It is used for very diverse uses as: ventilation of atmospheres, cooling of machines or objects or to move gases, mainly the air, by a network of conduits.
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew cloth and other materials with thread. They were invented during the first industrial revolution to reduce the amount of sewing work in textile companies. Since the invention of the first sewing machine, attributed to Thomas Saint in London in 1790, its efficiency and productivity in the textile industry has been greatly improved.