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1. Pickups enter the jet age.
While most owners of pickup trucks are content to keep their vehicles within the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit (at least while under police radar surveillance), professional ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
2. Anselm Franz and the Jumo 004.
Designing a jet engine for Germany during World War II, Anselm Franz decided to keep the specifications conservative. The result was the world's first mass-produced ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
3. Managing turbine-generator outages by
computer.
Software is being developed to address the need for computerized planning and documentation programs that can help manage outages. Downsized power-utility companies and the growing ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
4. Ceramics for turbine engines.
Ceramic materials for gas-turbine engines have been in development for decades, but only now are those efforts showing signs of success. Since the mid-1940s, researchers ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
5. Re-engineering virtual prototypes.
A new approach to digital product development is enabling engineers to assess the impacts design changes will have on products and systems that function much ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
6. An explosion in microsystems
technology.
As software design tools help speed new developments, applications of microsystems are expanding to microrelays, magnetic position sensors, and other products. Once largely confined to ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
7. Carbon composites fly high: improved techniques of
resin transfer molding...
Improved techniques of resin transfer molding are being used to fabricate flight-critical carbon-composite structures for aircraft and jet engines. Hand lay-up methods have been the ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
8. Millennial mayhem for
manufacturing.
Good morning, it's Jan. 1, 2000. Will factories function today? Hindsight is 20/20, at least according to the old adage. Perhaps no other modern dilemma ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
9. EPA's hot-air debate.
Will the nation soon have to make a choice of either lawn mowers and backyard barbecues or the health of children and the elderly? job ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
10. Taking fabrics for an electrospin.
Scientists at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Command in Natick, Mass., are electrospinning a special filamentary membrane, 50 to 100 times finer than a spider's ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) | |
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