Engineering Disasters: the St Francis Dam Failure
The St Francis Dam failure in California occurred in 1928, two short years after its completion, resulting in over 450 deaths. The dam was constructed …
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How to Build a High Quality LED Digital Clock
A bright shiny digital LED clock display over the wall would certainly help to enhance the beauty of your house, and what if this digital clock is …
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How Cam and Follower Mechanisms Work
Interested to know about those machines that bottle your favorite beverage? How exactly the whole mechanism rely and follow a custom carved cam? Read …
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How Power Factor Correction Equipment Saves Power
Power Factor Correction can be performed by passive or active circuits. The advances in semiconductor technology and the low price of control …
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How to Build Small, Simple Audio Amplifiers Using IC LM386
You may find this circuit idea very handy particularly while making small projects involving low power audio amplifiers like door bells, pocket radios …
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How to Make a Simple Radio Using the IC ZN 415
Normally, making a radio set at home may look quite a tedious affair due to the involvement of a high number of components; however a tiny candidate …
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Advantages of Using Dry Ice for Surface Cleaning
Surface cleaning by dry ice blasting is a very effective method with practically no clean-up required. Equally adaptable to sensitive and rugged …
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Fluid Dynamics - Evaluating Reynolds Transport Theorem
Newtons laws of motion may be applicable ideally for bodies belonging to identified systems, however in fluid dynamics, for a control fluid volume in …
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Metacentric Height and Stability - Why Ships Tend to Stay Upright
Optimizing extreme stability becomes an important factor when it comes to designing ships. Determining the metacentric height, which is decisively …
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Boat Building Methods - Cruise Ships
Learn about boat building methods and specifically how cruise ships differ from normal commercial cargo carriers as far as ship building processes are …
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