Google Books has available online Appleby's Illustrated Handbook of Machinery published 1897-1903. The 5 (6?) volumes available are
I. Prime Movers (1897, 1901 & 1903 editions available),
http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&q=Appleby%27s+Illustrated+Handbook+Prime+Movers&btnG=Search+Books...
Chariot with scenes from the life of the Greek hero Achilles
Etruscan, Archaic, 2nd quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Found near Monteleone di Spoleto in 1902
Bronze inlaid with ivory; total height: 51 5/8 in. (131.1 cm); length of pole: 82 1/4 in. (208.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
The Army Corps of Engineering video of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis may be very helpful in the investigation.
The video of the Big Blue crane collapse in Milwaukee in July 1999, obtained fortuitously as OSHA was on-site investigating earlier incidents, was also helpful.
As big money...
IMHO: too many engineers don't bother with their responsibility to be good citizens. Instead of making an effort to be informed and participating in guiding the course of the nation, they are blasé and allow politicians (mostly lawyers, some corrupt) and special interest groups to shape our...
Impact testing of Concrete Tube (bridge collision)
A 45,000-pound, steel-reinforced, C-shaped concrete tube for the new We Energies power plant in Oak Creek on a lowboy truck trailer hit a railroad overpass at 25 to 30 miles per hour and wedged underneath. Pretty severe, note that the trailer...
Anyone catch the news on Al Gore's son getting clocked at 105 mph on I-5 by an Orange County sheriff's deputy?
Perhaps most surprising (other than I-5 in OC is usually a traffic jam), it was in a Toyota Prius! The follow-up story:
Who says the Prius can't get out of its own way?
Al Gore III's...
The following thread, in the Chemical plant design & operations Forum, describes corrosion problems using 98% sulfuric acid in an alkylation unit.
Refinery Alkylation Unit - Metallurgy Upgrade
thread124-187428
Recently, the proposed use of hydrofluoric acid (rather than sulfuric acid) as...
"BHUBANESWAR, India, June 20 (UPI) -- The Indian forestry department released 48 crocodiles into the wild last week in an attempt to stop the depletion of the nation's mangrove forests...
Once the crocs are firmly ensconced in the water inlets, human intrusion would greatly be curtailed,"...
A catalytic process for converting fructose (a common plant sugar, cheaper than sucrose) to a liquid fuel, 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), is faster and less energy-intensive than the principal ethanol production process. Plus, the fuel has a 40% higher energy density (ethanol can be considered...
In the ASCE-sponsored contest, the University of Wisconsin won with a 19.11-foot-long, 179-pound, natural gray canoe. Runners-up were University of Florida and the University of Nevada, Reno. For details, rules, history, etc. see
http://content.asce.org/inside/nccc2007/
Photos of all entrants...
Racine, WI, March 7, 2007:
"The research and development contract supports Modine’s work in its ongoing development of Environmental Control Unit (ECU) and vehicular HVAC systems to provide air conditioning and heating using carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigerant for military vehicles and Army tent...
The Journal of Materials Chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, has 10 review articles on Biomaterials available for downloading for a short time (through April 6).
Topics include semiconductor nanoparticles used as bioindicators, sol-gel processes, chemical treatment of Ti &...
Lesson 1:
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you...
FYI, an article in ISIJ Int., Vol. 46, pp.567-572 (2006):
Influence of Phosphorus, Sulpher, and Oxygen on 65% Nitric Acid Corrosion Resistance of Super High-clean 316L Stainless Steel [abstract only w/o subscription] by Kazuyuki Sakuraya et al.
"By decreasing phosphorus content in these steels...
Thought I'd share a 'good news' story:
Great Lakes granddad
Oldest ship on inland ocean gets set for season on Lake Michigan
By RICK BARRETT, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 26, 2007.
"South Chicago - Six years before the RMS Titanic set sail on its doomed maiden voyage, a Great Lakes...
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) held a poll on the greatest moments in materials science & engineering. Results for numbers 50-11 were published in the Feb 2007 issue of JOM and on-line:
http://www.materialmoments.org/vote.html
The top 10 won't be revealed until the TMS Annual...
