Category: Engineering & Technology
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Mechanical Computer
Computer Programming In a previous post I referred to Ada Lovelace who has been recognised as the First Computer Programmer and an inspiration to legends such as Alan Turing. However most of her programs never ran on anything. The technology to do it didn’t exist and was too hard and too expensive to make at…
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Wireless Power
Wireless Power Is Coming In a very real sense it is already here in part. Wireless Charging is becoming mainstream. But seriously powering a device wirelessly has been a difficult challenge and there are many who think it will never be effective unless done at power levels that would be unsafe. So it was with…
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Olympics of Engineering
Olympics of Engineering Have you heard of the Olympics of Engineering before? Well it also goes under the more common name of the World Engineering Conference and Convention which is part of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations. But just like the Olympic Games it is held every four years. The World Engineering Convention 2015…
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Mains Power Plugs
Mains Power Plugs These days, more than ever before, many of the new consumer products developed have to run from batteries. But there are still an enormous number of products that run from mains power, including the battery chargers needed for all those battery powered products. If you are targeting the world market, the issue…
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Data Storage Durability
Data Storage History The storage medium for data has become increasingly sophisticated over time both speeding up the writing and reading of data and increasing the density of data that is stored so that we can now store on a single device the size of my thumb all the knowledge that existed in the world…