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-Invents printing press with movable metal type. |
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-a military and civil engineer, develops the parallelogram law for the addition of forces. |
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-Invents first refracting telescope. |
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1660
-Discovers theory of elasticity. |
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-Derives the formula for the buckling of a pinned-pinned column. |
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1765
-introduces the condenser to the Newcomen steam engine. |
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1793
-Invents the Cotton gin. |
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-Built first steam locomotive. |
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-First large span steel bridge. |
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| American society of Mech. Engineers if founded in |
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| The first launch of a Saturn V rocket was on |
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| The atmospheric engine was invented in 1712 by |
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| The first successful helicopter in the United States and the first helicopter to use a single vertical tail rotor configuration for anti-torquewas invented by |
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| He improved on the design of the atmospheric engine by introducing a separate condenser to avoid wasted energy and radically improve the power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. He also developed the concept of horsepower. |
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| The first modern electrical air conditioning unit was invented in 1902 in Buffalo, NY by |
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| The first jet powered aircraft flies for the first time in 1939. It is the |
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| The X-43A, an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft, set a new speed record of 12,144km/h (7,546mph), or Mach 9.8 in |
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| Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the analysis of the kinematics and the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The first person to formulate such models was |
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| The first thermodynamic textbook was written in 1859 by |
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| Who is generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered car? |
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| Who was the engineer who, during his time with Columbia records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing (LP) microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph disc? |
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| A French physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics. |
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| Who was the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1924? |
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| The bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decrypt German Enigma-machine-encrypted signals during World War II. Who developed the bombe? |
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| Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell tested his theories on hovercraft design using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his working hypothesis to have potential. He began his work on hovercrafts in |
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| In 1954 the world‟s first nuclear power station was open in |
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| Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia |
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| The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine which uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating pistons. It was invented by Felix Wankel in |
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