The Night Orville Wright Had Too Many Cups Of Coffee
Engineering / Flight
Whenever Wilbur and Orville Wright's colleague, George Spratt, visited their Kitty Hawk glider test camp, lively discussions and arguments on flight persisted until late in the evening. On this partic continue reading this fact
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A Man-made 'Take' on Nature's Style
Engineering / Materials
Advanced Composite Materials, (ACMs) are, as the name implies, composite materials. However, they consist exclusively of man-made specialty fibers bound in a matrix of plastics. The variety of such ma continue reading this fact
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Infrared Headphones
Engineering / Breakthroughs
Infrared headphones use infrared light to carry an information signal from a transmitter to a receiver. Sounds simple enough, but the actual process is very complicated. The human ear gathers sound as continue reading this fact
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