Technology
Replicating Rapid Prototyper Produces Replicating Rapid Prototyper Child
Now people can replicate replicating machines from replicating machines. Sounds kind of like Dolly, the cloned sheep, being cloned to produce a new sheep. http://blog.reprap.org/2008/06/reprap-achieves-replication.html Adrian (left) and Vik (right) [...]
The 100 mpg Gas Guzzler
The 100 mpg Gas Guzzler Jonathan Goodwin dropped out of seventh grade to help pay the bills and follow his passion for cars and engines. Today the automotive world bows [...]
Garbage Fuel: Just like in the Movies
Remember the last scene of Back to the Future when Doc Brown returns in his flying DeLorian to take Marty to the year 2015? As a 5 year old kid [...]
The Fire Pole of 1878
Today, April 21, in 1878, the fire station pole was invented. Prior to the existence of fire station poles, firemen often used sliding shoots like those in playgrounds to quickly [...]
France's Technical Center of the Screw Machining Industry
In 1962, the French government created CTDEC, a research and training center primarily devoted to screw machining, in France’s Haute-Savoie region, located right across the border from Geneva, Switzerland. Comprised [...]
Line Shaft Power Transmission at Museum in France
The first week of April, Noah Graff of TMW attended a press junket put on by the Arve-Industries Competitiveness Pole in the Haute-Savoie of France, a historic and current hotbed [...]
David Plitt, Forman at University of Chicago Machine Shop
Today’s Machining World did an interview in the April issue with David Plitt, the foreman of the U of C machine shop. This video is an excerpt of the interview. [...]
What it Takes to Change the World
This day on March 18, 1662, the first bus service began in France. Blaise Pascal, most famous for his mathematics, physics and philosophical genius, conceived the idea. The system started [...]
Tata Motors $2,500 car unveiled. “The People’s Car”
On Jan. 10, 2008, Tata Motors unveiled its revolutionary $2500 car, the Tata Nano, also being called “The People’s Car” by its maker. The vehicle measures 3.1 meters in length, [...]
The 3-D Printing Revolution
The December 12, Wall Street Journal discussed how 3-D printing machines are now becoming available to consumers to produce objects in their homes as diverse as iPod covers, action figures [...]