Engineering & Technology

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• Lynn Conway ▲ 1,667
• Geneva drive ▲ 481
• Banana equivalent dose ▲ 470
• Qanat ▲ 423
• Gimli Glider ▲ 385
• The Toyota Way ▲ 368
• Wringing ▲ 356
• List of screw drives ▲ 303
• Iron Ring ▲ 277
• Jerrycan ▲ 272
• Preferred number ▲ 272
• Stick bomb ▲ 255
• Starlite ▲ 244
• Prowords ▲ 242
• Atlantropa ▲ 238
• The Buzzer ▲ 227
• Ligne Claire ▲ 222
• The Raising of Chicago ▲ 222
• Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue ▲ 205
• Guédelon Castle ▲ 202
• General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy ▲ 199
• Shaft passer ▲ 199
• A Tesla Valve ▲ 197
• Mysorean Rockets ▲ 196
• Tunnel of Eupalinos ▲ 195
• Evolved antenna ▲ 192
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ▲ 180
• Crush, Texas ▲ 179
• TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool ▲ 172
• British Airways Flight 5390 ▲ 169
• Mecanum wheel ▲ 169
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel ▲ 165
• List Of Adhesive Tapes ▲ 162
• Olivia MFSK ▲ 162
• Poka-yoke ▲ 160
• Lisa Su ▲ 158
• Finnair Flight 915 ▲ 152
• Milk watcher ▲ 150
• Goodyear Inflatoplane ▲ 148
• Holden's Lightning Flight ▲ 144
• Paternoster Lift ▲ 142
• $100 hamburger ▲ 139
• Jumbo Stay ▲ 139
• Micromouse ▲ 136
• Plasma Antenna ▲ 136
• Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic ▲ 126
• The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project management ▲ 126
• Ben Carlin ▲ 125
• Proportion-Integral-Derivative Controllers ▲ 125
• Autopen ▲ 124
• The Pip ▲ 120
• Ackermann Steering Geometry ▲ 118
• Slow-scan television ▲ 117
• Church Rock uranium mill spill ▲ 113
• Ishikawa diagram ▲ 104
• Pyrophone ▲ 103
• LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado ▲ 102
• QSL Card ▲ 99
• Airbus Beluga XL ▲ 99
• The Man Behind AMD's Zen Microarchitecture: Jim Keller ▲ 99
• Yakhchāl ▲ 98
• A baboon who acted as assistant to a disabled railway signalman in South Africa ▲ 98
• Gotthard Base Tunnel ▲ 97
• Artificio de Juanelo ▲ 96
• Eidophor ▲ 96
• Railway time ▲ 94
• Airbus Beluga ▲ 93
• Pumped-storage hydroelectricity ▲ 92
• Euthanasia Coaster ▲ 92
• London Beer Flood of 1814 ▲ 91
• Lagâri Hasan Çelebi ▲ 90
• Dick Smith (Entrepreneur) ▲ 90
• Sinclair C5 ▲ 89
• Bomba (Cryptography) ▲ 88
• In 1979, a Gulf of Mexico oil spill went on for 10 months at about the BP rate. ▲ 88
• Fazlur Khan: The engineer who made it possible to live in the sky ▲ 86
• Airliner Number 4 ▲ 85
• Andrews and Arnold is xkcd 806-compliant (2010) ▲ 85
• Unsafe at Any Speed ▲ 83
• The oldest, continuously running, independent business in the world? ▲ 83
• The inventor of microfleece refused to patent it. ▲ 81
• Solar pond ▲ 78
• Soviet Lun-Class Ekranoplan Ground Effect Vehicle ▲ 77
• Hierapolis sawmill ▲ 76
• Yaw String ▲ 76
• Traveling Wave Reactor ▲ 76
• Alberto Santos-Dumont ▲ 76
• Crookes radiometer ▲ 75
• South-Pointing Chariot ▲ 75
• Zygalski Sheets ▲ 74
• Gyrocar ▲ 74
• Train ferry ▲ 73
• Andon (manufacturing) ▲ 73
• Buteyko method ▲ 71
• All American Five radio receivers ▲ 71
• Natural nuclear fission reactor ▲ 71
• M-Pesa – a mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service ▲ 70
• Desertec ▲ 70
• Agner Krarup Erlang ▲ 69
• North American F-82 Twin Mustang ▲ 69
• Telautograph ▲ 68
• Pantograph ▲ 68
• Frog galvanoscope ▲ 67
• DCF77 ▲ 67
• Lego - the Largest Tyre Manufacturer in the World ▲ 67
• Lee Felsenstein ▲ 66
• Curta ▲ 66
• Quantum Zeno effect ▲ 66
• Smith Chart ▲ 66
• Programma 101 ▲ 66
• Qwest – Refusal of NSA surveillance requests ▲ 66
• Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio ▲ 65
• Phased array ▲ 64
• Sulfur Lamp ▲ 64
• Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) ▲ 61
• Kramatorsk Radiological Accident ▲ 60
• JP-7 ▲ 59
• Non-explosive demolition agents ▲ 58
• United Biscuits Network ▲ 57
• Alcoa 50k ton forging press ▲ 57
• Iran Air Flight 655 (Wikipedia) ▲ 57
• 🌉 ▲ 57
• An-225 ▲ 56
• Caproni Ca.60 ▲ 55
• Minivac 601 ▲ 55
• Carl Fisher ▲ 55
• Synchronization gear ▲ 54
• List of countries by mobile phones in use ▲ 54
• Comfort Noise ▲ 54
• Xerox 914 ▲ 53
• Pick-and-place machine ▲ 52
• Magdeburg Water Bridge ▲ 52
• Hofmeister Kink ▲ 49
• RAL colour standard ▲ 48
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ▲ 48
• Mobile phones on aircraft ▲ 48
• Daniel W. Dobberpuhl ▲ 48
• The Colditz Glider ▲ 47
• London Pneumatic Despatch Company ▲ 45
• Aviation safety: Transport comparisons ▲ 45
• April 12, 1961: First man in space ▲ 45
• Confocal microscopy ▲ 44
• Harvard Mark I ▲ 44
• Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion ▲ 44
• Escort carrier ▲ 43
• Cosmopolitan Railway ▲ 43
• Lockheed Bribery Scandals ▲ 43
• London Bridge (Lake Havasu) ▲ 43
• Ballistic Recovery Systems ▲ 43
• Nipkow disk ▲ 42
• Boeing MQ-25 Stingray ▲ 41
• Tweel – Airless Wheel ▲ 40
• Through-the-earth mine communications ▲ 39
• Crew resource management ▲ 39
• Slip coach ▲ 39
• Tupolev Tu-144 ▲ 39
• MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer ▲ 38
• Red Sea Dam ▲ 37
• Steam Cannon ▲ 37
• Ram air turbine ▲ 37
• Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 ▲ 36
• Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar ▲ 35
• Vanadium redox battery ▲ 35
• Heilmeier's Catechism: questions for every startup, every project. ▲ 35
• Wireless USB ▲ 34
• Liverpool and Manchester Railway ▲ 33
• Oil drilling: Wrong coordinate system creates lake 1,300 feet deep (1980) ▲ 32
• Larkin Company ▲ 31
• Daimler Reitwagen ▲ 31
• AVE Mizar ▲ 31
• D. B. Cooper ▲ 30
• Hügelkultur ▲ 30
• Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition ▲ 30
• Artificial Photosynthesis ▲ 30
• Polybolos ▲ 30
• Rotary Rocket ▲ 30
• Mafia (party game) ▲ 29
• Bovril ▲ 29
• SpåraKoff ▲ 28
• George Stephenson ▲ 28
• Crystal Detector ▲ 28
• Human-powered helicopter ▲ 28
• Fairfax, California B-17 Crash in 1946 ▲ 28
• Kee Bird ▲ 28
• Explosively pumped flux compression generator ▲ 27
• Inco Superstack ▲ 27
• Ohio Nuclear Bribery Scandal ▲ 27
• Blohm and Voss BV 141 ▲ 27
• Tommy Flowers ▲ 26
• Ruin Value ▲ 26
• Scenery nerds and systems nerds: MIT's Model Railroad Club ▲ 26
• Flow Chemistry ▲ 25
• AMPRNet: Amateur Packet Radio Network ▲ 25
• List of Multiple Discoveries ▲ 25
• Business Plot ▲ 24
• Hobby tunneling ▲ 23
• Lockheed CL-1201 ▲ 23
• Toroidal propeller ▲ 23
• Universal Decimal Classification ▲ 22
• Water Based Analog Computer ▲ 22
• Montessori education ▲ 21
• Pop pop boat ▲ 21
• Boom XB-1 Baby Boom ▲ 20
• Bitching Betty ▲ 20