Galileo and Newton were both great geniuses, but their mechanical cause-and-effect explanation of the world was something that most thoughtful folks could grasp.
The same is true of 3D manufacturing devices that allow small-scale producers to get back in the game of producing everything from household goods to complex mechanical proto-types at ever-lower cost.
The X-5's triple Shake Reduction (SR) system couples the PENTAX-developed mechanical sensor-shift-type SR mechanism with a digital SR mode for stills or movie SR mode for video to more effectively compensate for camera shake.
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"Anytime you go in the lane and you see a 7-footer, you think twice about it, " saidThomas Fabian, a sophomore mechanical-engineering major who is generously listed at 5-foot-11.
Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.
The so-called Ekso, a mechanical skeleton created by California-based company Ekso Bionics, is designed to give paraplegics the power to walk unaided.
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This time, he topped the electrical- and mechanical-engineering category and won fifteen thousand dollars.
Luckily for the companies cranking out flash memory--slim memory chips that mimic the capabilities of bulky mechanical hard drives--their old friend Steve Jobs is there to help.
Reports from the event suggest that it featured an impressive armada of more than 300 lavishly-apparelled vessels, and her leading barge contained a moving mechanical dragon -- complete with men dressed as monsters, casting fire towards the spectators on the riverbank.
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For data-hungry enterprises, tapping into Mechanical Turk is a huge money-saver.
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Just as Abraham-Louis Breguet was a founding father of mechanical watchmaking, his great-great grandson, Louis-Charles Breguet, achieved similar fame in the aviation field.
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The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine (the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension).
Mechanical, electrical services - the wires and piping - came in cassettes that were just slotted into place.
Micro-mechanical logic chips could eventually be as small and easy to mass-produce as conventional ones.
From the horse-drawn carriage, to the typewriter, to the mechanical watch, to film-based cameras, there is nothing new about the phenomena of innovation upsetting the competitive order and leading to a shakeout where established players fall to the wayside.
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Researchers in the field use the acronym MEMS, for micro-electro-mechanical systems.
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Edinburgh-based Wolfson, which specialises in audio parts for consumer electronic products, said sales were driven by a strong performances from its audio hubs and micro-electro-mechanical systems (Mems) microphone product lines.
While it's still a bit louder than your run-of-the-mill membrane-based keyboard, the Quiet Pro is very quiet by mechanical keyboard standards.
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Its three suspension towers now include 12 components--including silicon fluid dampening--and seven mechanical filters to limit unwanted vibration.
They have ruled out two possibilities -- mechanical "impact" damage, like that caused by being dropped, or short-circuiting outside the battery.
Although it sounds impressive, it may be that like its 18th-century namesake, there is less to the modern-day Mechanical Turk than meets the eye.
Its wood chips are first fed into a 400-degree steam cooker, then subjected to a patent-pending mechanical process that KL's chief scientist David Litzen calls axial shear.
Swatch Group--which brought a renewed sense of excitement and fashion to mechanical timepieces when the traditional industry was reeling--opened the Nicolas G.
De Vaucanson built two astonishing humanoid musicians--one played the flute and the other played pipes and drum--yet the automaton that brought him the most fame was a life-size mechanical duck.
The facility in Jacksonville will perform pre-equipping, mechanical assembly, structural assembly, systems installation and testing, and flight testing of A-29 aircraft, Embraer said.
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The library provides commonly used touch-sensing decoding structures, such as keypad, rotary and slider, to allow upgrades from mechanical to touch-activated interfaces.
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"The work I've done here captures both of my majors, and it's so cool when they overlap, " says Jennifer Blundo, a 21-year-old double major in finance and mechanical engineering who is working on a running shoe for New Balance.
New brawny applications take full advantage of today's cheap Intel-based servers and are at the right price--low--with interfaces so intuitive that CAD novices, especially mechanical engineers, can swiftly pick them up.
Phosphor Reveal marks the world's first mechanical digital watches utilizing its proprietary Micro-Magnetic Mechanical DigitalTM (M3D) technology.
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