This week on the channel +1.3M views this week
Practical Engineering cuts into the mechanics of pressure regulation
Grady Hillhouse opens up an everyday device he describes as a Victorian-era mechanical computer.
YouTube channel
Practical Engineering
@practicalengineeringchannel · The channel on YouTube
Website: practical.engineering
Practical Engineering has 4,840,000 subscribers and 573,077,988 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,491,439 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators", with 1,862,107 views. By subscribers it is No. 614 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 17 of 87 in Science and experiments.
The numbers today
subscribers
4,840,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
573,077,988
▲ 1,491,439 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
73,814
on a typical day: 222,160
Videos on the channel
252
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
4 days ago
October 20, 2026
Views per subscriber
118
a new long video usually gets 1,281,633 views
Next milestone
5,000,000 subscribers
160,000 subscribers to go
What happened lately
October 22, 2026 4.4x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 803,763 views a day, 4.4 times a normal day (180,729).
This week on the channel
Practical Engineering's 'Stopping the Unstoppable' still leads at 27 days
No new video went up, and a two-week-old guide to American outlets is running almost level with it, while a spring video about washboard ro…
The video drawing the most views now
Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes?
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 733,321
- Video views, pace per day
- 51,268
- Views on its first day
- 474,506
Similar channels
Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 614 of 5,387 | 17 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 2,400 of 5,295 | 33 of 87 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.4% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscribers in the category Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
Subscribers, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 4,830,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 4,840,000 subscribers
Total views, last 30 days
September 26, 2026: 566,743,343 views → October 24, 2026: 573,077,988 views · average: 226,237 views a day
The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes? | October 20, 2026 | 18:07 | 733,321 | 51,268 | 474,506 | 17,597 | 901 |
| The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators | October 6, 2026 | 16:34 | 1,862,107 | 11,186 | 729,461 | 28,326 | 852 |
 Every US Electrical Outlet Explained | September 15, 2026 | 21:33 | 1,526,729 | 2,868 | - | 28,985 | 2,625 |
| Stopping the Unstoppable | September 1, 2026 | 15:46 | 5,463,900 | 7,568 | - | 60,598 | 2,957 |
 Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams? | August 18, 2026 | 19:15 | 1,335,411 | 1,291 | - | 35,450 | 1,936 |
 The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground | August 4, 2026 | 18:28 | 971,372 | 1,896 | - | 33,954 | 1,222 |
 What's Under Your Feet in New York City? | July 21, 2026 | 22:32 | 845,540 | 667 | - | 28,418 | 1,219 |
 The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans | July 7, 2026 | 24:34 | 2,017,890 | 968 | - | 54,316 | 3,083 |
 Bridge Demolition is Complicated | June 16, 2026 | 17:56 | 583,360 | 344 | - | 26,022 | 1,012 |
 Why Roads Get Washboards | June 2, 2026 | 17:54 | 3,373,813 | 1,308 | - | 81,660 | 4,745 |
 Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World | May 19, 2026 | 22:23 | 682,547 | 351 | - | 27,000 | 1,140 |
 The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick | May 5, 2026 | 17:43 | 1,065,623 | 563 | - | 31,208 | 1,687 |
 The Wild Story of the Teton Dam Failure | April 21, 2026 | 19:23 | 1,227,855 | 294 | - | 34,984 | 1,207 |
 This Spillway Failed On Purpose | April 7, 2026 | 19:04 | 794,321 | 544 | - | 28,946 | 850 |
 The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild | March 17, 2026 | 22:59 | 5,126,867 | 1,233 | - | 83,488 | 4,457 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 21.8 in the category: 31.8
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.1 in the category: 1.1
- short vs long
- 0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 1,840,710
Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures | June 7, 2022 | 14:02 | 14,265,666 |
 How Do Sinkholes Form? | June 28, 2017 | 6:41 | 13,281,162 |
 The Hidden Engineering of Landfills | September 3, 2024 | 17:04 | 11,948,307 |
 Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement | April 25, 2018 | 8:11 | 11,521,693 |
 The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure | October 15, 2024 | 20:10 | 11,453,167 |
Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Name That Infrastructure (Ep. 16) #shorts | October 25, 2022 | 0:58 | 3,204,540 |
 Name That Infrastructure (Ep. 7) #shorts | June 14, 2022 | 1:00 | 2,105,530 |
 Name That Infrastructure (Ep. 11) #shorts | August 9, 2022 | 1:00 | 970,286 |
 Name That Infrastructure (Ep. 4) #shorts | May 10, 2022 | 1:00 | 830,954 |
 Name That Infrastructure (Ep. 13) #shorts | September 14, 2022 | 1:00 | 775,400 |
What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 803,763 views a day, 4.4 times a normal day (180,729).
- MilestoneThe Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators The video passed 1,000,000 views.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 870,765 views a day, 4.9 times a normal day (176,336).
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +1.3M views this week
Practical Engineering cuts into the mechanics of pressure regulation
Grady Hillhouse opens up an everyday device he describes as a Victorian-era mechanical computer.
This week on the channel
Practical Engineering's 'Stopping the Unstoppable' still leads at 27 days
No new video went up, and a two-week-old guide to American outlets is running almost level with it, while a spring video about washboard ro…
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