Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname,
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Machines
Industrial Robots History
George Devol applied for the first robotics patents in 1954 (granted in 1961). The first company to produce a robot
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Computer History
Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 — 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. He created
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AM Radio History
AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions. It was the first method developed for
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How Raise Drill Works
Raise drilling is used to create large drill holes — up to 7.6 meters in diameter. The holes, or tunnels,
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Rockets Engines
A rocket engine is a type of jet engine that uses only stored rocket propellant mass for forming its high-speed
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Taser History
Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he
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Video Games History
Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-born American inventor, game
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the
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Microwave History
A microwave oven (also commonly referred to as a microwave) is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by
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NASA X-43 Aircraft
The X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic
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Pumps History
A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action. Pumps can be
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Steam Engines
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. In simple terms,
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Cellular Phone History
A handheld mobile radio telephone service was envisioned in the early stages of radio engineering. In 1917, Finnish inventor Eric
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Stirling Engine
A Stirling engine is a heat engine that operates by cyclic compression and expansion of air or other gas (the
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