When I was a kid I was fascinated by the story of the Donner Party, the pioneer wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevadas in 1846, but I didn't know that this tale of starvation and cannibalism inspired modern food packaging. Professor Bill Hammack (aka Engineer Guy) explains how an essential sub-discipline of engineering was developed as a result of this misadventure.
Laughing Squid
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