Famous Engineers

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Akhil Madhani - Robot that operates inside human body
Alfred Nobel
Alois Langer - Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Aeronautical engineer, President of India

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Boris Yelsin - President, Russia
Bradford Parkinson, Dr. - GPS
Buzz Aldrin - Second man to walk on moon
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Charles Kao - Fibre optics
Charles Townes - Nobel Laureate
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Deve Gowda - Civil engineer, Prime Minister of India
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Earl Bakken - External wearable pacemaker

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Frank Gilbreth - Motion Study, Therbligs
Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific Management

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George De Mestral - Velcro
Godfrey Hounsefield - Nobel Laureate

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Harrington Emerson - Principles of Efficiency
Helen Greiner - Robot
Henri Fayol - General and Industrial Management
Henry Ford
Hideki Shirakawa - Nobel Laureate
Hu Jintao - President,China
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Ivan Getting - GPS
Jairam Ramesh - Cabinet Minister India
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Jack Kirby,  Dr.
Jack Welch - CEO, GEC
Jerome H. Levenson - Bar code system (more than 500 patents)
Jimmy Carter - President, USA

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Ken Kutaragi - Playstation
Kurien Verghese - Amul Man, India

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Lee Iacocca - CEO,Chrysler
Leonid Brezhnev - President, USSR

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Manohar Parricker - Chief Minister, Goa, India
Martin Cooper, Dr. - Mobile phone
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - Engineers day in India
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N.R. Narayana Murty - Chairman, Infosys, India
Neil Armstrong - First man to walk on moon
Nolan Bushnell - Video Games,Atari
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Paul Latter, Prof - Nobel Laureate
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Sreedharan, E. - Metroman of India
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Theodore Maiman - Operable laser
Tim Berners Lee - Internet - WWW - Nobel Laureate
Tony Faddell - Invention - IPod
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Walter Brattain - Nobel Laureate
Willem Kolff - Kidney dialysis machine
Wilson Greatbatch - Medical cardiac pacemaker

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Yasser Arafat

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Resources

Famous Engineers of 19 century - 1888 book
http://archive.org/details/famousengineerso00laysiala
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Solar Home Lamps - India - 2012

Solar home lamps are being supplied in Haryana with a subsidy of 2500 per lamp. Each lamp costs Rs, 3900

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/subsidised-solar-lamps-for-haryana-households/390350/

Solar Street Lights - 2012

Sirsa District, Haryana installed Solar street lights in all villages of the district.(2012)

6600 systems sanctioned. May be 5000 installed (to be checked)

Specifications

The systems comprise of a 74 W solar panel, 11W CFL and 12V battery. The
project falls under the Off-grid solar photo voltaic applications scheme which is a part of the
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. Each system costs Rs 18900 along with a 2 year warranty period. With an additional Rs 100 the manufacturers have included a maintainance contract for 3 years.


http://re.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/28th%20september-sirsa%20report.pdf


Details of NABARD Empanelled Solar systems suppliers in India
http://mnre.gov.in/file-manager/UserFiles/list_manufacturers_SPV_NABARD.pdf

Solar Street Lights from Ammini

http://www.ammini.com/group.aspx?type=product&gname=Solar%20Street%20Lighting%20System%20(CFL)&gid=290

11 W CFL street lights

http://www.ammini.com/details.aspx?type=product&gname=Solar%20Street%20Lighting%20System%20(CFL)&pid=120255&product=Suntron-11W

Locomotive Engine - History

25 July 1814
First steam engine hauls wagon on rails
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventors/a/Stephenson.htm

1829 Rocket Engine by Stephenson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_ani_rocket.shtml


29 April 1951
Electric Locomotive engine demonstrated
http://www.ehow.com/info_8594072_electric-locomotives-history-1851.html

http://www.american-rails.com/electric-locomotives.html

Railway History resources
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/railways.shtml



Electric Locomotives - 2003 book
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=eat_AAuwU5IC

Bread Making Machinery

1928: First bread slicing machine, invented by Otto Rohwedder, US
1930: Sliced bread first appeared in shops in UK
1933: Sliced bread became popular. About 80% of US bread is pre-sliced.
1941: Calcium added to UK flour to prevent rickets
1954: Conditions in bakeries regulated by the Night Baking Act
1961: The Chorleywood Bread Process introduce
1985: September 3, Patent issued http://www.google.com/patents/US4538509
1995: Patent issued http://www.google.com/patents/US5435235
2012: Microzap, Texas, USA announces that technology available for keeping bread quality for 60 days.
http://www.microzap.net/process.html


How bread is made?
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Bread.html#b

Bread That Last 60 Days - Process Developed

Microzap, American company based in Texas, announced that  it has developed a technique that will keep the bread mould free for two months.

This novel and unique approach is currently patent pending.

http://www.microzap.net/about-microzap.html

Automobile History

http://www.auto-history.tv/Timeline_of_motoring_history.html





Front Wheel Drive
http://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2006/03/01/hmn_feature22.html




Automobile History - USA - Some Years

1900 -                      1915  -

Yoshiro Nakamatsu - Dr. Nakamats - Patent Factory

Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese inventor and a prolific patenter. He has more than 3000 patents to his credit. He has 100 people working for him to take care of his existing patents and create new ones.

He has two popular and money making patents - floppy disc (patent in 1952) and lovejet, a libido boosting potion sold online.


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Dr-Nakamats-the-Man-With-3300-Patents-to-His-Name-179976641.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/10/news/10iht-matscon.ttt.html


Recent inventions

glove for attaching smartphone - Smarte
http://dr.nakamats.com/shop/life-item/smarte.html

Meat Slicing Machine - Development History

1873
4 November 1873, the first U.S. patent was issued for a meat-slicing machine to Anthony Iske of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (No. 144,206).


1898


Sausage or Meat Cutting Macine

United States Patent 600128

Filing date: September 19, 1896

Issue date: March 1, 1898

Inventor: JOHN RUNSER

Assignees: WILLIAM S. BEALE AND LILLIE G. BEALE

http://archive.org/stream/UnitedStatesPatent600128/USP600128.txt

1996
Patent Number 5481466
Joseph Carey
http://www.google.com/patents/US5481466

Bakemax Meat Slicer - Operation Manual
http://www.bakemax.com/wp-content/files/manuals/Meat%20Slicer/MEAT%20SLICER%20-%20BMMSM01_05.pdf

Patents Issued Statistics

US Patents

2011
Total patents granted 247,713

2010
Total patents granted : 244,341

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm

inventions - 2012

Collection will include items in news in 2012

Google's Virtual Reality Goggles
Lytro's Lightfield Camera
Mocrosoft Windows 8
Tweel

Inventions - Up to 1900

• 1791: Artificial teeth: Nicholas Dubois De Chemant  Article on artificial teeth http://www.noeliaanderson.com/123-artificial-teeth/

• 1793: Cotton gin: Eli Whitney

• 1798: Vaccination: Edward Jenner
• 1798: Lithography: Alois Senefelder

• 1801: Jacquard loom: Joseph Marie Jacquard
• 1802: Screw propeller steamboat Phoenix: John Stevens
• 1802: Gas stove: Zachäus Andreas Winzler
• 1804: Locomotive: Richard Trevithick
• 1805: Submarine Nautilus: Robert Fulton
• 1807: Steamboat Clermont: Robert Fulton
• 1808: Band saw: William Newberry

• 1809: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy
• 1814: Steam Locomotive (Blücher): George Stephenson
• 1816: Miner's safety lamp: Humphry Davy
• 1816: Stirling engine: Robert Stirling
• 1816: Stethoscope: Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
• 1816: The Bicycle

• 1817: Draisine or velocipede (two-wheeled): Karl Drais
• 1817: Kaleidoscope: David Brewster
• 1821: Electric motor: Michael Faraday
• 1823: Electromagnet: William Sturgeon
• 1824: Portland cement: William Aspdin

• 1826: Photography: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
• 1826: Internal combustion engine: Samuel Morey
• 1827: Friction match: John Walker

• 1830: Lawn mower: Edwin Beard Budding
• 1830: Stenotype on punched paper strip: Karl Drais
• 1831: Multiple coil magnet: Joseph Henry
• 1831: Magnetic acoustic telegraph: Joseph Henry (patented 1837)
• 1831: Reaper: Cyrus McCormick
• 1831: Electrical generator: Michael Faraday, Ányos Jedlik
• 1834: The Hansom cab is patented
• 1834: Louis Braille perfects his Braille system
• 1834: Refrigerator: Jacob Perkins
• 1834: Combine harvester: Hiram Moore
• 1835: Revolver: Samuel Colt
• 1835: Electromechanical Relay: Joseph Henry
• 1835: Incandescent light bulb: James Bowman Lindsay
• 1836: Sewing machine: Josef Madersberger

• 1837: US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport (February 25)
• 1837: Steel plow: John Deere
• 1837: Standard diving dress: Augustus Siebe
• 1837: Camera Zoom Lens: Jozef Maximilián Petzval
• 1837: Magnetic telegraph: Samuel Morse
• 1838: Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone (also Samuel Morse)
• 1838: closed diving suit with a helmet: Augustus Siebe
• 1839: Vulcanization of rubber: Charles Goodyear
• 1840: Artificial fertilizer: Justus von Liebig

• 1842 Superphosphate fertilizer: John Bennett Lawes
• 1842: Anaesthesia: Crawford Long
• 1843: Typewriter: Charles Thurber
• 1843: Fax machine (kind of like a telegraph back then): Alexander Bain
• 1843: Ice cream maker: Nancy Johnson

• 1845: Pneumatic tire: Robert Thomson (inventor)
• 1846: Sewing machine (different model): Elias Howe
• 1846: Rotary printing press: Richard M. Hoe

• 1849: Safety pin: Walter Hunt
• 1849: Francis turbine: James B. Francis
• 1849: Telephone: Antonio Meucci
• 1852: Airship: Henri Giffard
• 1852: Passenger elevator: Elisha Otis
• 1852: Gyroscope: Léon Foucault

• 1855: Bunsen burner: Robert Bunsen
• 1855: Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer
• 1856: Celluloid: Alexander Parkes

• 1858: Undersea telegraph cable: Fredrick Newton Gisborne
• 1858: Mason jar: John L. Mason
• 1859: Oil drill: Edwin L. Drake
• 1859: Lead acid battery: Gaston Plante
• 1860: Linoleum: Fredrick Walton
• 1860: Repeating rifle: Oliver F. Winchester, Christopher Spencer
• 1860: Self-propelled torpedo: Giovanni Luppis

• 1861: Ironclad USS Monitor: John Ericsson
• 1861: Siemens regenerative furnace: Carl Wilhelm Siemens
• 1862: Revolving machine gun: Richard J. Gatling
• 1862: Mechanical submarine: Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
• 1862: Pasteurization: Louis Pasteur, Claude Bernard
• 1863: Player piano: Henri Fourneaux

• 1865: Roller Coaster: LaMarcus Adna Thompson
• 1865: Barbed wire: Louis Jannin
• 1866: Dynamite: Alfred Nobel
• 1868: Practical typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, with assistance from
• 1868: Air brake (rail): George Westinghouse
• 1868: Oleomargarine: Mege Mouries

• 1869: Vacuum cleaner: I.W. McGaffers
• 1870: Magic Lantern projector: Henry R. Heyl
• 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison
• 1871: Cable car (railway): Andrew S. Hallidie
• 1872: Adding machine: Edmund D. Barbour
• 1873: Railway knuckle coupler: Eli H. Janney
• 1873: Modern direct current electric motor: Zénobe Gramme
• 1874: Electric street car: Stephen Dudle Field
• 1875: Dynamo: William A. Anthony
• 1875: Magazine (firearm): Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
• 1876: Carpet sweeper: Melville Bissell
• 1876: Gasoline carburettor: Daimler
• 1876: Loudspeaker: Alexander Graham Bell

• 1877: Stapler: Henry R. Heyl
• 1877: Induction motor: Nikola Tesla  http://nraoetkc.blogspot.in/2012/07/induction-motor-invention-nikola-tesla.html
• 1877: Phonograph: Thomas Alva Edison
• 1877: Microphone: Emile Berliner
• 1878: Cathode ray tube: William Crookes
• 1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss
• 1879: Pelton turbine: Lester Pelton
• 1879: Cash register: James Ritty
• 1880: Photophone: Alexander Graham Bell
• 1880: Roll film: George Eastman
• 1880: Safety razor: Kampfe Brothers
• 1880: Seismograph: John Milne

• 1881: Metal detector: Alexander Graham Bell
• 1882: Electric fan: Schuyler Skaats Wheeler
• 1883: two-phase (alternating current) induction motor: Nikola Tesla
• 1884: Linotype machine: Ottmar Mergenthaler
• 1884: Fountain pen: Lewis Waterman
• 1884: Punched card accounting: Herman Hollerith
• 1884: Trolley car, (electric): Frank Sprague, Charles Van Depoele

• 1885: Automobile patent granted (internal combustion engine powered): Karl Benz, first automobile put into production
• 1885: Maxim gun: Hiram Stevens Maxim
• 1885: Motorcycle: Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach
• 1885: Alternating current transformer: William Stanley
• 1885: Safety bicycle: John Kemp Starley
• 1886: Dishwasher: Josephine Cochrane
• 1886: Gasoline engine: Gottlieb Daimler
• 1886: Improved phonograph cylinder: Tainter & Bell
• 1887: Monotype machine: Tolbert Lanston
• 1887: Contact lens: Adolf E. Fick, Eugène Kalt and August Muller
• 1887: Gramophone record: Emile Berliner
• 1887: Ceiling fan: Philip Diehl
• 1888: Polyphase AC Electric power system: Nikola Tesla (30 related patents.)
• 1888: Kodak hand camera: George Eastman
• 1888: Ballpoint pen: John Loud
• 1888: Harvester-thresher: Matteson (?)
• 1888: Kinematograph: Augustin Le Prince
. 1888: Pneumatic Tyre: John Boyd Dunlop

• 1891: escalator: Jesse W. Reno
• 1891: Thermal cracking process: Vladimir Shukhov
• 1891: Zipper: Whitcomb L. Judson
• 1891: Carborundum: Edward G. Acheson
• 1892: Color photography: Frederic E. Ives
• 1892: Automatic telephone exchange (electromechanical): Almon Strowger - First in commercial service.

• 1893: Carburetor: Donát Bánki and János Csonka
• 1893: Wireless communication: Nikola Tesla
• 1893: Radio: Nikola Tesla
• 1894: Radio transmission: Jagdish Chandra Bose in Bengal
• 1895: Diesel engine: Rudolf Diesel
• 1895: Radiotelegraph: Guglielmo Marconi
• 1896: Vitascope: Thomas Armat
• 1897: Modern escalator: Jesse W. Reno



Sources
sitemaker.umich.edu/annarborag/files/inventions_during_presidential_terms_1-24.doc

Invention time line
http://www.inventionreaction.com/invention-timeline/

Tweel - Tyre + Wheel - Invention from Michelin

Tweel is an integrated tyre and wheel combination that does not use air and promises performance beyond that of pneumatic tyres. It is developed by Michelin and is presently being used in low weight vehicles.



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YouTube Video uploaded by YouTube Partner AutomotiveTV
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How Tweel Works?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tweel-airless-tire.htm

More about Tweel from Michelin itself
http://www.michelintweel.com/

30 October 2012
Michelin began commercial sales of Tweel for Skid-Steer loaders

Pneumatic Tyres and Tubes - Product and Manufacturing Process - History

John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon. His son was prescribed exercise on tricycle and to make it more comfortable, he developed a canvas tube filled with air and bonded together with liquid rubber. He patented the idea. In 1889, he persuaded a cycling sportsman to use his tyres and the championship was won that cyclist. The tyres became famous and popular. Dunlop sold his patent in 1896 for 3000 pounds.

http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/johndunlop.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/pneumatictire.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/makhist10_prog10e.shtml


New Concept in Tyre Tweel
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Sony Watchman

Came to know about Sony Watch through a comment by a participant in Research Methodology, Review of Research in  Management class, October 2012. Then saw it listed as one of 100 all time great inventions, Times list.

What is Sony Watch Man - A portable TV. It is similar in concept to Sony Walkman.

Learn something more about it through a YouTube Video

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YouTube video uploaded by a YouTube Partner YourGeekNeeds
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Sony Watchman idea is still being pursued by some in the market place. TV broadcasters still are supporting a mobile TV product.
http://gigaom.com/video/broadcasters-hope-to-resurrect-the-sony-watchman/

Interesting Products and Brands

Automobile
Model T
Tata Nano
Steam Engine
Steam Locomotive


Amazon Kindle
Apple iPod
Audio Highway Listen Up
Bose Noise-Canceling Headphones
Diamond Rio PMP300
Genica GN803 Tavarua
Logitech Harmony
Mattel Electronics Football
MusicGremlin Wi-Fi MP3 Player
Nintendo Game Boy
Optical Media
Panasonic DVD-L10
Regency TR-1
Sony Discman D-50
Sony Walkman TPS-L2
Sony Watchman
TiVo
Zenith Space Command



Apple AirPort
Apple iPad
Apple PowerBook 100
Asus Eee PC 700
Commodore 64
Connectix QuickCam
DiskOnKey
Engelbart Mouse
Epson HX-20
GRiD Compass 1101
Hewlett-Packard HP-65
Iomega Zip Drive
LED
Lego Mindstorms 1.0
MicroSD
MITS Altair 8800
Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100
Texas Instruments SR-10




Apple iPhone
Ballpoint Pen
Bell 103
Bellsouth IBM Simon
BlackBerry 6210
Bluetooth Headset
Danger Hiptop, a.k.a. Sidekick
Fisher AG7 Space Pen
Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
Motorola Handie-Talkie HT 220 Slimline
Motorola PageWriter 2000
Motorola Razr V3
Motorola StarTac
Novatel Wireless MiFi
Olympus Zuiko Pearlcorder
Pager
Palm Pilot 1000
PhoneMate Model 400
Samsung Uproar
Sharp J-SH04
Speak & Spell
Lifestyle
Air Taser Model 34000
Casio G-Shock DW-5000C
The Clapper
Credit Card
Dyson Air Multiplier
Energizer Alkaline Batteries
Fuzzbuster
Hamilton Pulsar
Leatherman
Lithium-Ion Batteries
Magellan NAV 1000
Spot Personal Tracker
Velcro
Zippo
Cameras
Apple QuickTake 100
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Eye-Fi
Flip
Fujifilm Quick Snap Disposable Camera
Kodak EasyShare One
Kodak Instamatic 100
Nikon F
Pentax K1000
Polaroid SX-70
Sony Betamovie BMC-100P
Sony Mavica MVC-FD5

Black & Decker Cordless Electric Drill
Clock Radio
Dirt Devil Hand Vac
Electric Razor
iRobot Roomba
Modern-Day Can Opener
Power Strip
Smoke Detector

Breathalyzer
Broxodent Electric Toothbrush
Digital Thermometer
Hearing Aids
Heart-Rate Monitor
Jarvik 7
Pacemaker
Pedometer
SteriPEN

Apple Newton
Atari Lynx
Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000EP
Archos Gmini 400
Psion MC 400


http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2023689,00.html

Ball Point Pen - Product and Manufacturing Process History

29 October Engineering Knowledge History[1]

29 October 1945 - The first ball point pen in the U.S. went on sale at Gimbels Department Stores for $12.95.


The first successful sales of ballpoint pen happened on 29 October 1945. The day before, there was a full-page ad in the New York Times announcing the first sale of ballpoint pens in the United States. On the first day of sales, Gimbels sold the entire stock of 10,000 pens-at $12.50 each.

The pens were manufactured by a Chicago salesman named Milton Reynolds.  Reynolds had seen  a ball pen (Biro’s pen)  in a stores in Argentina and speculated on its popularity in America.  Many of the patents issued on ball pens had expired by then. So Reynolds developed his ball pen without any patent protection or support.  Reynolds made a  deal with Gimbels to sell ballpoint pens.  He set up a factory with 300 workers.

The subsequent demand was unprecedented. In the first three months,  two million pens were sold through 60,000 retail outlets in the United States and 37 foreign countries, for total revenues of $5.7 million, with a net income of $1.6 million.  Gimbel’s alone sold 100,000 pens[4].


The first patent for a ball point pen was issued to John Loud in 1988 (30 October 1988). See a discussion on the concept claimed in the patent. (http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/law_trends_news_practice_area_e_newsletter_home/business_slusky.html )

Manufacturing Process
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Ballpoint-Pen.html




1. http://nraombakc.blogspot.in/2012/10/29-october-knowledge-history-science.html
2. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ballpen.htm
3. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa101697.htm
4.Robert Sobel, When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them, Prentice-Hall Press, 1999, p.p. viii-xi

3D Printing - Introduction and Videos

A Primer on 3D Printing
Ted Talk - Video Presentation

http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html


How 3D Printing Works?
http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/visualization_laboratory/equipment/3Dprinting/files/791_8914-3DPrintingWhitePaper.pdf

3D Printing Machines

MakerBot  MAKERBOT REPLICATOR™ 2
Desktop machine
http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html

See its demonstration in a 3D Printing YouTube Video

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Video uploaded by CNETTV - YouTube Partner
uploaded Jan 2012
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Engineering Science Lectures - Sonoma State University, USA

April 5th 2012: "Circuit Simulation for Computer-Aided Design"
Dr. David Root: Agilent Research Fellow, and
Dr. Radek Biernacki: Senior Member of Technical Staff,
both IEEE Fellows

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Software Engineering - Proofs and Tests - Specifications and Use Cases.

A fundamental duality of software engineering

http://bertrandmeyer.com/2012/10/14/a-fundamental-duality-of-software-engineering/

National Science + Engineering Competition UK 2012-13

For students in age group 11 - 18 years
The Competition is open for entries from March - October each year, through either Regional Fairs or Online Applications. For the year 2012-13 The chosen Finalists are invited to showcase their work to thousands of people at The Big Bang Fair in March 2013.

There are many benefits to entering the competition, including improving your communication skills and honing your science/engineering knowledge. There are a range of fantastic prizes, including 'once in a lifetime' experiences and cash prizes.

Entries are now open for the Online Application of the Competition - applications close on 31 October 2012.

http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/nsec.cfm

YouTube Video of the final presentations in March 2012 for the last year competition

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Solar Roadway: The Prototype - YouTube - 2012

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2010 video

There is a related film Yert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1ohS8buws

There are 80 videos uploaded by Yertians

The Journal for Surface Mount and Electronics Assembly

http://circuitsassembly.com/cms/


https://www.printedcircuituniversity.com/

Curiosity - Exploration and Investigation on Mars - 2012

August 2012


28 August 2012

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On 22nd day of the mission, Curiosity drove eastward 52 feet.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia15694.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia15693.html

Curioisty Ready to Roll in a week
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/08/curiosity-ready-to-roll-right.html

NASA News
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120819b.html

Lean Manpower Technologies - Rebirth of American Manufacturing Industry

Robots and Intelligent Computers are now a commercial reality.

USA does not need large manpower to manufacture things it wants now. All items which USA is presently importing from China and other countries presently due to the lack of manpower at home can be made now in USA only.

There is going to be a boom in US manufacturing industry.

Article in one of the sites on Forbes by Singularity University.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/23/the-end-of-chinese-manufacturing-and-rebirth-of-u-s-industry/

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2007

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-06/2007-popsci-invention-awards

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2010

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• Invention Awards: A Faster, Safer System for Snowmobiles By Mark Anders
• Invention Awards: A Fish-Friendly Tidal Turbine By Rena Marie Pacella
• Invention Awards: A Box that Keeps Plants Hydrated In the Desert By Corey Binns
• Invention Awards: Gun Sight That Keeps Soldiers Out of Danger By Nicole Dyer
• Invention Awards: A Bridge That Keeps Guitars Always in Tune By Brooke Borel
• Invention Awards: An Inexpensive, Portable Ventilator By Elizabeth Svoboda
• Invention Awards: A Hearing Aid That Uses Bones to Conduct Sound By Elizabeth Svoboda
• Invention Awards: A Drug Pump That Delivers Perfect Dosages By Lisa Katayama
• Invention Awards: A Technology That Prevents Fog on Any Surface By Susannah F. Locke
• Invention Awards: A Gaming Device That Lets You Feel the Sound By Gregory Mone

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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/june-2010-inventions-year

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2011

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• A better mechanical prosthetic hand

• A crime-fighting armored glove

• A printer you wave like a magic wand

• A safer landing pad for snowboarders

• A glare-blocking LCD sunglass lens

• A more effective bedbug detector

• A low-cost test for prenatal diseases

• An efficient way to treat boat waste

• A light, motorized body board

• A mirror that measures vital signs

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http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2011-05/2011-popsci-invention-awards

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2009

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• Invention Awards: An Escape Harness for Skyscrapers

• Invention Awards: The Fastest Tank

• Invention Awards: Power From Shock Absorbers

• Invention Awards: A Real-Life Babel Fish For the Speaking Impaired

• Invention Awards: The World as a Web Interface

• Invention Awards: Robo-Legs

• Invention Awards: A Better IV Catheter

• Invention Awards: Eco-Friendly Insulation Made From Mushrooms

• Invention Awards: A Generator That Runs on Kitchen Grease

• Invention Awards: A Stronger, Greener Fishing Lure

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http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-05/popsci-2009-invention-awards

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2008

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-05/popsci-presents-2008-invention-awards

Popular Science Invention Awards - 2012

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• A Spring-Loaded Ice Skate
• A Mister for Firefighters
• A Modular Cast
• An Assisted-Walking Device With Senses
• A Recirculating Shower
• A Higher-Efficiency, Lower-Emission Engine System
• An Inflatable Tourniquet
• A Better Lobster Trap
• A Simple Helicopter Engine
• Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses

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Mars Rover Curiosity - Technology and Mechanisms

August 2012
Curiosity is technological triumph
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428741/the-mars-rover-curiosity-marks-a-technological/

Software used in Curiosity Design
http://www.controleng.com/single-article/new-mars-rover-curiosity-is-bigger-better-more-efficiently-designed/b86e83af863effe4d4d84e8e1f62ca35.html



January 2011
Cost of Curiosity raises to $2.5 billion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/next-generation-mars-rover-curiosity_n_817041.html

Henry Ford - Biography

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 as the first son of William and Mary Ford's six children. His father had a prosperous family farm in Dearborn, Michigan. At an early age, Henry showed an interest in mechanical things and pursued industrial work. In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford went to nearby city of Detroit and worked as an apprentice machinist. After, three years as an apprentice, he returned to Dearborn and divided his time between operating or repairing steam engines, doing occasional work in a Detroit factory, and over-hauling his father's farm implements, as well as lending a hand with other farm work. He married Clara Bryant in 1888 and went into running a sawmill.


In 1891, Ford joined as an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. He was promoted to Chief Engineer in 1893.  He devoted considerable time to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines. These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of a self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse.



The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The  company produced very limited number of cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies.

Henry Ford focused on  producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient  and introduced  the Model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success.

By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, in 1910. Henry Ford created in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, adding one component to each automobile as it moved past them on the line. Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The introduction of the moving assembly line revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.

The company began construction of the world's largest integrated industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included facilities to produce many components and materials needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line. Iron ore and coal were brought in on Great Lakes steamers and by railroad, and were used to produce both iron and steel. Rolling mills, forges, and assembly shops transformed the steel into springs, axles, and car bodies. Foundries converted iron into engine blocks and cylinder heads that were assembled with other components into engines. By September 1927, all steps in the manufacturing process from refining raw materials to final assembly of the automobile took place at the vast Rouge Plant.

Mr. Ford retired as active head of the Ford Motor Company in 1918, at the age of 55, turning over the presidency to his son, Edsel.

Henry said and took step to realize it. "As long as I live I want to pay the highest wages in the automobile industry. If the men in our plants will give a full day's work for a full day's pay, there is no reason why we can't always do it. Every man should make enough money to own a home, a piece of land and a car."

He died on 7 April 1947

Sources

Autobiography by Henry Ford - My Life and Work
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1466207
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tyKLU1xLeeAC

New York Announcement of Death of Henry Ford
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0730.html

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/
http://www.infoplease.com/birthday/July-30
http://www.edisonfordwinterestatesblog.com/2012/07/01/happy-birthday-henry-ford/

Corn Flakes - Will Keith Kellogg

In 1894,  Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was superintendent of a famous hospital and health spa in Battle Creek, Michigan and his younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg, was the business manager. The hospital stressed healthful living and served  its patients  a diet that eliminated caffeine, meat, alcohol, and tobacco.
To achieve that objective, the brothers invented many foods that were made from grains, including a coffee substitute and a type of granola, which they forced through rollers and rolled into long sheets of dough.

One day, after cooking some wheat, the men were called away to some other work and when they finally returned, the wheat had become stale. Still, they decided to force the tempered grain through the rollers anyway. The grain did not come out in long sheets of dough. Instead each wheat berry got  flattened and came out as a thin flake. The brothers baked the flakes and were delighted with the taste of flakes.  They realized they had discovered a new and delicious cereal. Will Keith Kellogg eventually opened his own cereal business, and it is a famous product even today.


Many of the history today lists credit 30 July 1898 as the day, the corn flake was invented.


Sources
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/kellogg.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/kelloggcf.htm
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/kellogg-company-history/

Laroy S. Starrett - Inventor of Micrometer

Laroy S. Starrett was born on April  25, 1836, to Daniel D. and Anna Elizabeth Starrett.

He developed interest in mechanics and bought machines for his farm. He obtained a patent for  a meat chopper(May 23, 1865). After arranging for its manufacture, he sold it personally throughout the state of Maine. The venture proved so successful that he made a contract with the Athol (Mass.) Machine Co. to manufacture his meat chopper and other inventions of his own, among which were shoe studs and hooks, patented Jan. 28, 1868, and now used with slight modification the world over.  Subsequently, he established a business of his own and  began the manufacture of a combination square, consisting of a try-square with a movable head that may be clamped in any desired position along the blade, in Athol, Massachusetts, in 1880. First patented Feb. 26, 1879, his combination square  has become a most useful tool in the building trade. Gradually he added steel rules, surface gauges, screw pitch gauges and other small tools to his list.  The success and growth of the business have been continuous and  the plant at Athol, Massachusetts became  the largest in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of small tools and hacksaw blades, containing over five acres of floor space and employing over 1,000 hands. The factories are equipped throughout with machinery of the highest class and with every up-to-date appliance for the accurate production of fine mechanical tools. In 1912 the company was incorporated as the L. S. Starrett Co. with capital stock of $3,500,000 and of which Mr. Laroy S. Starrett was president until his death. 

It manufactured a large line of carefully adjusted rules, measures, gauges, squares, protractors, slide rules, calipers, dividers, pliers, hacksaws, wrenches, screw drivers and levels, all of which were originated or perfected by Mr. Starrett himself. He received over 100 patents for his inventions, the most important of which, besides those mentioned, were a center try-square designed to find the exact center of a circle, patented June 29, 1880; a surface gauge, patented Mar. 21, 1882; a beveling instrument, Aug. 7, and Dec 4, 1883; screw thread gage, May 19, 1885; calipers and dividers, Dec. 27, 1887; micrometer caliper square, Mar. 5, 1889; micrometer gauge, July 29, 1890; bevel protractor, May 10, 1892. 

THE L.S. STARRETT COMPANY  - Today

The L.S. Starrett Company was founded 1880 in Athol, MA, which is still the Company’s World Headquarters. Our founder, Laroy S. Starrett invented the combination square in 1877. He started the company to manufacture this product. The company grew rapidly with a broadening product line, additional employees and penetration into an increasing number of markets. 

Today, the company employs about 1,800 people worldwide. Most precision tools continue to be manufactured in the Athol plant.

Precision Tools, Gages and Instruments

The broad Starrett product line includes precision measuring tools (micrometers, calipers, rules, etc.), levels, electronic gages, dial indicators, gage blocks and granite surface plates and custom engineered products. The company offers metrology equipment including optical measuring projectors, vision systems and multi-sensor measuring systems, many of which are custom engineered. The precision group also includes M1 lubricant, precision ground flat stock and drill rod. Starrett hand measuring tools and other precision products are used by manufacturing companies of many types and sizes to ensure the quality of their products.

Saws & Hand Tools

Starrett is also a major, worldwide manufacturer of saw blade products. The saw blade product group includes three categories. Band saw blades are used primarily in manufacturing facilities. The Power Tool Accessories and Hand Saws group include hole saws, jig and reciprocating blades and hacksaw products. The jobsite and workshop group includes tape measures, levels, protractors and other tools used primarily on construction jobsites and workshops.

Starrett products are sold throughout the United States and worldwide through distributors, dealers, and retailers and online. In recent years, the Company has broadened its product offering through acquisitions and innovative product line expansion.

Today, Starrett has eight manufacturing locations worldwide: Brazil, The U.K. and China and five in the United States. See Manufacturing Facilities Worldwide for more detailed information. Annual sales of the company are in the vicinity of $250 million and the company is traded publicly on the NYSE.

Sources:

http://www.starrett.com/about/company-profile

http://www.dromo.info/starrettbio.htm

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Leroy_S._Starrett

The Brick-road-laying Machine - Tiger Stone

Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch industrial company Vanku,  invented the Tiger Stone paving machine. The road-wide device is fed loose bricks, and lays them out onto the road as it slowly moves along. A quick going-over with a tamper, and you’ve got an instant brick road.

According to Vanku, a machine with two operators can pave at least 300 square meters (3,229 sq.ft.) of road per day, whereas a single conventional paver on their hands and knees manages between 75 and 100.

http://www.gizmag.com/tiger-stone-lays-paving-bricks/16951/

Weather Radar

http://livekeystroke.blogspot.in/2012/07/weather-radar.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radar

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html

Induction Motor - Invention - Nikola Tesla

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/143.html

http://www.teslasociety.com/hall_of_fame.htm

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