Encyclopedia - Mechanical and Technical

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antenna anvil arc furnace Archimedean screw Archytas Arkwright, Sir Richard armoury practice arrastra assaying assembly line auger autoclave automation ax axle Babbage, Charles Baird, John L(ogie) balance ball bearing barometer

basic Bessemer process basic oxygen process bauxite Bazin, Henri-Émile bearing Belidor, Bernard Forest de bellows belt drive beneficiation Bentham, Sir Samuel Berthoud, Ferdinand Bessemer process Bessemer, Sir Henry Besson, Jacques binoculars bioengineering Biringuccio, Vannoccio Blanchard, Thomas blast furnace bleach

block and tackle block mill bloomery process blowing engine bobbin Bodmer, Johann Georg bog iron ore boiler bolt boring machine Boulsover, Thomas Boulton, Matthew boundary layer brake Bramah, Joseph brass Braun, Wernher von brazing broaching machine broadband

brocade bronze Brown, Joseph Rogers Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sir Marc (Isambard) buckling byssinosis calendering caliper cam camera canvas capstan carbon steel carburetor carburizing carding carding machine Carnot cycle Carnot, (Nicolas-Léonard-) Sadi

Carrier, Willis Haviland Cartwright, Edmund cashmere cast iron casting catalytic converter catapult cathode-ray oscilloscope cavitation centrifugal pump centrifuge chain drive chisel chronometer cigar clay clock clutch coal mining cogeneration

coinage coke colour printing combine harvester comparator compass composite material compressed air compression ratio compressor condenser Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) continuity principle control system control theory conveyor belt cooling system Cooper, Peter Copper Age Cort, Henry

cosmetics cotton gin crane crank creep Crompton, Samuel crucible crucible process Ctesibius of Alexandria cupellation Curtis, Charles Gordon cyanide process Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé daguerreotype Darby, Abraham Deere, John denim Dennison, Aaron Lufkin desalination dial gauge

die die casting diesel engine Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl differential gear dimensional analysis distaff dividing engine Dixon, Joseph Dollond, John and George domestic system Donkin, Bryan Dornberger, Walter Robert Dow, Herbert H(enry) drag Draper, Charles Stark drawing drawing frame drill drill press

drop forging dry cleaning Du Buat, Pierre-Louis-Georges ductility Dudley, Dud dynamite Eastman, George eccentric and rod mechanism elastic modulus Elder, John electric furnace electrical engineering electroplating electrum employee training engine engineering Ercker, Lazarus Ericsson, John Evans, Oliver

evaporator extrusion factory Fairbairn, Sir William fatigue felting ferroalloy fibreglass file finery process fireworks flake tool flight recorder flotation flow meter flux flying shuttle flywheel foot forge

forging founding Fourdrinier machine Fourneyron, Benoît fracture Francis, James Bicheno Froude, William fuel cell fuel injection fulling fuse galvanizing Garand, John C(antius) gasoline engine gauge gear generator Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle glue Goddard, Robert Hutchings

Goldmark, Peter Carl governor grain mill gram gravure printing grinding machine Gutenberg, Johannes (Gensfleisch zur Laden zum) halftone process Hall, Charles Martin hammer hardening hardness Hargreaves, James Harrison, John heat exchanger heat-treating Heathcoat, John Heron of Alexandria high-definition television (HDTV) high-speed steel

Hoe, Richard (March) Hoe, Robert Hoffman, Samuel (Kurtz) Hornblower, Jonathan horsepower Howe, Elias Huntsman, Benjamin hydraulic jump hydraulic press hydraulics hydroelectric power hydrometallurgy hydrostatics ignition system impact test incense inch induction heating industrial ecology industrial engineering

industrialization industry inertial guidance system ingot innovation inside contracting instrumentation interchangeable parts internal-combustion engine international unit Invar investment casting jack Jacquard loom Jerome, Chauncey jet engine jigs and fixtures just-in-time manufacturing (JIT) Kármán, Theodore von Kay, John

Kelly, William Kettering, Charles F(ranklin) Kevlar kiln knitting machine Knudsen, William Signius Korolyov, Sergey (Pavlovich) kraft process lacemaking Lanchester, Frederick William Land, Edwin (Herbert) lathe Latrobe, Benjamin Henry launch vehicle Laval, Carl Gustaf Patrik de Lear, William Powell leather Lee, William Leland, Henry Martyn letterpress printing

level lever lie detector lift linen linkage linoleum Linotype liquation Lister, Samuel Cunliffe, Baron Masham (of Swinton) lithography loom loran lost-wax casting loudspeaker Lowell, Francis Cabot lubrication macadam machine machine tool

magnet magneto Magnus effect Mallet, Robert manufacturing mass production materials science Maudslay, Henry McAdam, John (Loudon) McCormick, Cyrus Hall mechanical advantage mechanical engineering mechanism mechanization mercerization Mergenthaler, Ottmar metal fatigue metallography metallurgy metre

metric system metrology microelectromechanical system (MEMS) micrometer (caliper) microscope microwave oven Midgley, Thomas, Jr. mile milling machine mineral processing mold Mond, Ludwig Mudge, Thomas Mushet, Robert Forester nail nanotechnology Nasmyth, James National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needle Neilson, James Beaumont

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Paul, Lewis Percy, John perfume periscope Perkins, Jacob pewter phonograph photoengraving picker pig iron pin (fastener) piston and cylinder pitot tube planer plasticity plating plow pneumatic device pound powder metallurgy

power Prandtl, Ludwig Pratt, Francis Ashbury pressure gauge printing profiler protractor puddling process pulley pump punch press pyrometer quenching Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de rack and pinion radial engine radio radio telescope ramjet range finder

Rankine cycle Rankine, William J(ohn) M(acquorn) ratchet reamer reaper recycling refractory refrigeration Rennie, John research and development (R&D) reverberatory furnace Reynolds number Reynolds, Osborne Rittenhouse, David roasting Roberts, Richard robot rocket Roebling, John Augustus roller bearing

rolling rope Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd earl of rotary engine rotary press router safety satin Saugus Iron Works Sauveur, Albert saw sawing machine sawmill scissors scrap metal screw sewage system sewing machine sextant shaper

shear legs shearing shock absorber Sholes, Christopher Latham shuttle Siemens, Sir (Charles) William silk Singer, Isaac Merritt sintering slag Slater, Samuel Smeaton, John smelting Smith, Cyril Stanley smithing solar cell soldering solid solution Solvay process Sorby, Henry Clifton

spark plug Sperry, Elmer (Ambrose) spindle and whorl spinning spinning jenny spinning mule spinning wheel spring spring balance Springfield Armory square staged rocket stainless steel steam steam engine steel Stephenson, Robert Stevens, John Stevens, Robert Livingston Stevin, Simon

stocking frame strain gauge streamline strength of materials stroboscope Su Song supercharger surface suspension, automobile swage taconite Talbot, William Henry Fox tape recorder Taylor, Frederick W(inslow) Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylorism technical education technology telegraph Telford, Thomas

tempering terneplate Terry, Eli testing machine textile Theophilus (Presbyter) thermocouple thermometry thermostat Thorp, John thread throttle tidal power tinplating toggle mechanism Tompion, Thomas tool tool and die making tool steel torsion balance

torsion bar Total Quality Control (TQC) touchstone transformer transmission tribology Tull, Jethro turbine turbojet turboprop turbulence tweed twill typesetting typewriter valve Vaucanson, Jacques de velvet venturi tube vernier

Villard de Honnecourt viscometer vise vulcanization Wankel, Felix watch water clock water frame waterpower waterwheel Watt, James weaving wedge weights and measures welding Westinghouse, George Whitney, Amos Whitney, Eli Whittle, Sir Frank Whitworth, Sir Joseph

Wilkinson, John wind power wind tunnel windmill wire drawing wool wootz (steel) worsted wrench wrought iron Wyatt, John yard yarn zipper zone melting