The Best Engines & Machines Documentaries

How Things Work - 62 free documentaries about engines & machines.

Start with Automata: The Extraordinary "Robots" Designed Hundreds Of Years Ago (59 min, Timeline), then How Does A Carburetor Work? (25 min, Smarter Every Day). All 62 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on engines & machines is The Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay.

• Automata: The Extraordinary "Robots" Designed Hundreds Of Years Ago | Mechanical Marvels (59 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• How Does A Carburetor Work? (25 min, Smarter Every Day)
• This TRANSPARENT ENGINE is Fascinating (How Engines Work) - Smarter Every Day 292 (25 min, Smarter Every Day)
• What happens when 2 Weedeaters Hit Each Other? (28,000 fps SLOW MOTION) - Smarter Every Day 255 (18 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Mega Diesel Engine | Exceptional Engineering (48 min, Free Documentary)
• We should use this amazing mechanism that's inside a grasshopper leg (19 min, Steve Mould)
• The Amazing Engineering of Rescue Helicopters - Smarter Every Day 289 (29 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts) (13 min, Practical Engineering)
• The Uncertain Future of Jet Fuel (25 min, Real Engineering)
• How a Mechanical Typewriter Works (22 min, Animagraffs)
• Unmixing Color Machine (Ultra Laminar Reversible Flow) - Smarter Every Day 217 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• How Engines Work - (See Through Engine in Slow Motion) - Smarter Every Day 166 (9 min, Smarter Every Day)
• How does an Elevator work? (12 min, Jared Owen)
• The Insane Engineering of MRI Machines (18 min, Real Engineering)
• The Backwards Brain Tractor - Smarter Every Day 305 (10 min, Smarter Every Day)
• This is in a Different Class Than a Raptor Engine! (39 min, Tech Ingredients)
• WHAT ELSE CAN A JET ENGINE AFTERBURNER DO?! (38 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Mega Machines: Mega Scrap Metal Press, Excavation Machines, Robo Parking (28 min, Free Documentary)
• How does a Bowling Pinsetter Machine work? (Brunswick GS-X) (14 min, Jared Owen)
• Can Underwater Turbines Solve Our Energy Problems? (14 min, Real Engineering)
• Full Throttle Test: Did we Push a Pulse Jet Engine to its Limits?! (18 min, Tech Ingredients)
• We bought a new jet engine... can we boost it?! (39 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How Manual Transmission works - automotive technician shifting (20 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• How Roller Coasters Actually Work (16 min, Jared Owen)
• How Big Can Wind Turbines Get? (14 min, Real Engineering)
• Stealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning) (14 min, Mark Rober)
• Testing the Hybrid Jet Engine - Update 3.0 (25 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Playing Card Machine Gun- Card Throwing Trick Shots (11 min, Mark Rober)
• Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes (17 min, Practical Engineering)
• MTU Series 8000: Building The World's Most Powerful Mega Diesel Engine (49 min, Spark)
• How Wind Turbines Really Work: The Hidden Secrets (22 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work? (9 min, Practical Engineering)
• World's Longest Home Run (The "Mad Batter" Machine) - Smarter Every Day 230 (17 min, Smarter Every Day)
• The Pythagorean Siphon Inside Your Washing Machine (12 min, Steve Mould)
• How Electric Motors Work - 3 phase AC induction motors ac motor (16 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• What is a Hydraulic Jump? (9 min, Practical Engineering)
• What's The Biggest Machine In The World? (10 min, Real Engineering)
• Will this toy engine work at full size? (yes) (16 min, Steve Mould)
• Our Hydraulic Press VS 3D Printed Parts (38 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How does a Donut Machine work? (Krispy Kreme) (13 min, Jared Owen)
• How Machine Learning is Fighting Cancer (14 min, Real Engineering)
• Powerful Dry Ice Fog Machine! (32 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Hybrid Jet Engine (15 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Brushless Motor - How they work BLDC ESC PWM (16 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• How a Fire Engine Works (12 min, Animagraffs)
• Igniting Our Own Rocket Engines - DIY (12 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How does an Electric Motor work? DC Motor explained (16 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Servo Motors, how do they work? (15 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Rivers on Mars! (and other uses for hydraulic models) (8 min, Practical Engineering)
• Motor speed controller tutorial - PWM how to build (18 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• How Stepper Motors Work - Electric motor (14 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• What else goes into building a jet engine? - Part 3 (21 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Hybrid Jet Engine - Update 2.0 (13 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Induction Motor Basics (9 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Starter Motor Explained - How a car's electric starter motor works (11 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• Electric Motor Build - Make a simple electric motor (13 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• What else goes into building a jet engine? - Part 1 (15 min, Tech Ingredients)
• How does an Induction Motor work how it works 3 phase motor ac motor (11 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• How Manual Cars Work - manual transmission gearbox (9 min, The Engineering Mindset)
• What else goes into building a jet engine? - Part 4 Final (18 min, Tech Ingredients)
• What else goes into building a jet engine? - Part 2 (15 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Fan & motor CALCULATIONS, Pulley size, RPM, air flow rate cfm hvac rtu (10 min, The Engineering Mindset)

Top-Rated Books About Engines & Machines

1. The Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester - View on Amazon
3. The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack - View on Amazon
4. How Things Work by Neil Ardley - View on Amazon
5. Basic electrical engineering by A. E. Fitzgerald (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
6. Mechanics of machines by Hannah, John (4/5) - View on Amazon
7. Introduction to machine learning by Ethem Alpaydin - View on Amazon
8. Machinerys Handbook by Erik Oberg - View on Amazon
9. Shigley's mechanical engineering design by Richard G. Budynas - View on Amazon
10. Machine design by Aaron D. Deutschman - View on Amazon