Engineering is the discipline, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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Were Roman engineers required to stand beneath their bridges as they were tested?
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada !" — Robert Dewar,…
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Could One Man Have Built The Coral Castle?
Supposedly, just one man built the Coral castle. Jilted by the woman who would be his wife, and miraculously recovering from a terminal case of tuberculosis, Edward Leedskanlin built the structure in Florida City, Florida sometime around 1923.
He…
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Do bimetal jigsaw blades last twice as long as HSS blades and ten times longer than HCS blades?
Bosch makes this claim in their jigsaw blade documentation:
Bi-Metal (BiM): This highly flexible, tough combination
of HSS [High-Speed Steel] and HCS [High-Carbon Steel] results in a blade
suitable for the most demanding
applications when…
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