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Good reasons to learn the engineering skills you never thought you'd need.
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Monday, September 23, 2002 |
Supersonic test plane uses 'wing warping'
Nearly 100 years after the Wright brothers' first heavier-than-air powered flight, the US Air Force is testing an experimental plane that uses "wing warping", the steering and control technique that kept Orville Wright aloft in 1903. But this time round, it will be at supersonic speeds.
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Micro fuel cells
MTI Micro Fuel Cells Inc., promises first micro fuel cell (battery replacement for portable electronic devices) commercial product by 2004.
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An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology
...Mr Wright found evidence that the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga.
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© 2004 John W. Williams II
Last Update: 11/5/04; 1:19:57 PM
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