time. Differential analysers, a type of mechanical analogue computer, were used from approximately 1900 to 1950. These devices used differential gear trains...
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designed a mechanical device to integrate differential equations of the first order. The first description of a device which could integrate differential equations...
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of the corresponding ciphertexts Differential (mechanical device), as part of a motor vehicle drivetrain, the device that allows driving wheels or axles...
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a zoo in Oxfordshire, England Crown Wheel and Pinion, see Differential (mechanical device) Current Warming Period, see Global warming Catch Wrestling...
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Underpower Relay 37P - Underpower 38 - Bearing Protective Device / Bearing Rtd 39 - Mechanical Condition Monitor (Vibration) 40 - Field Relay / Loss of...
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locking differential is a mechanical component, commonly used in vehicles, designed to overcome the chief limitation of a standard open differential by essentially...
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Machine (redirect from Mechanical device)
movement, often called mechanical systems. Renaissance natural philosophers identified six simple machines which were the elementary devices that put a load...
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Windlass (redirect from Differential windlass)
until it tightened and caused the man's wrists to swell. Differential pulley Hoist (device) Sarton, George (1959). A History of Science. Vol. 2. Harvard...
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direction). A counterpart to this device that is used for measuring rotary displacement is called a rotary variable differential transformer (RVDT). LVDTs are...
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motor vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical devices, weapons, and others. Mechanical engineering emerged as a field during the Industrial Revolution...
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distribute force across the hull of the boats it carries. Differential (mechanical device), which does for torque what each layer of a whippletree does...
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Incremental encoder (redirect from Homing (mechanical))
Commonly available driver types include open collector, mechanical, push-pull and differential RS-422. Open collector drivers (using an NPN transistor...
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International Film Festival a motor vehicle's differential (mechanical device) White blood cell differential, a medical test enumerating each type of white...
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A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically)...
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most common solution is to use a mechanical device to distribute torque to the wheels. This mechanical differential allows different wheel speeds when...
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Computer (redirect from Computing device)
calculations since ancient times. Early in the Industrial Revolution, some mechanical devices were built to automate long, tedious tasks, such as guiding patterns...
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Viscous coupling unit (category Mechanical devices using viscosity)
A viscous coupling is a mechanical device which transfers torque and rotation by the medium of a viscous fluid. Rotary viscous couplings with interleaved...
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In the study of mechanical networks in control theory, an inerter is a two-terminal device in which the forces applied at the terminals are equal, opposite...
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Antikythera mechanism (redirect from Antikythera Device)
sophisticated device for calculating the motions of stars and planets. This remarkable assembly of more than 30 gears with a differential... Allen, Martin...
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column—and even differential analysis. One model, the Ascota 170 accounting machine sold in the 1960s, calculated square roots. Mechanical computers can...
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screw gauge (MSG), is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining...
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compass-vehicle device, Ma Jun created one of the first mechanical devices in the world to employ differential gear designs. Referring to history of differential gears...
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South-pointing chariot (category Mechanical engineering)
uncertainties. Some chariots' mechanisms may have had differential gears. The south-pointing chariot, a mechanical-geared, wheeled vehicle used to discern the southern...
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Hall effect sensor (category Magnetic devices)
ICs are solid-state devices, they are not prone to mechanical wear. Thus, they can operate at much higher speeds than mechanical sensors, and their lifespan...
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Ismail al-Jazari (redirect from Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices)
He is best known for writing The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Arabic: كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية, romanized: Kitab fi ma'rifat...
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provides superior mechanical retention while avoiding the risk of bending pins when inserting the chip into the socket. Certain devices use Ball Grid Array...
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Analog computer (section Mechanical analog computers)
Vannevar Bush and others developed mechanical differential analyzers. The Dumaresq was a mechanical calculating device invented around 1902 by Lieutenant...
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A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another...
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A transaxle is a single mechanical device which combines the functions of an automobile's transmission, axle, and differential into one integrated assembly...
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Electronic component (redirect from Discrete device)
piezoelectric device to generate full audio Buzzer – Electromagnetic or piezoelectric sounder to generate tones Position, motion Linear variable differential transformer...
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