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Compression Ignition: Otto, Diesel and Thermal Efficiency
Three milestones in which an engine was designed from a thermodynamic argument rather than developed from an existing machine, and immediately outperformed everything else.
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Design Practice
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Design Practice. 12 pages.
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Fluids and Comfort: Powered Flight, Sailing Hydrodynamics and Air Conditioning
Three milestones united by fluid mechanics: a machine that generates lift to fly, a rig that generates lift to outrun the wind, and a cycle that moves heat against its gradient.
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High Pressure and the Portable Engine: Trevithick and Evans
Three milestones that made the engine small enough to move, by doing the one thing James Watt refused to do.
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Light and the Central Station: Electricity Finds a Mass Market
Six milestones in which electricity acquired its first mass market, and in which the decisive engineering turned out to be system design rather than lamp design.
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Making Things Differently: Additive Manufacturing and Composite Primary Structure
Three milestones that broke the link between geometric complexity and cost, and then took three decades each to reach certified service.
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Signals and Standard Time: The Telephone Network and the Great Clock
A clock that keeps a city's time and a network that carries a city's voice are the same kind of engineering: both distribute a shared reference that nobody owns and everybody de…
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Spanning the Gap: The Iron Bridge, the Truss and the Suspension Chain
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
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Steel Beyond Bessemer: Regenerative Heat, the Basic Process and Alloy Steels
Four milestones showing a field that acquired chemistry rather than physics, and in which the decisive advance came from a part-time experimenter working in a cellar.
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The American System: Interchangeable Parts, Assembly Lines and the Sewing Machine
Interchangeable manufacture and the lockstitch sewing machine replaced skilled fitting with repeatable process, moving the engineering effort from the product to the system that…
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The First Practical Motor Car: Benz and the Features That Stuck
Three milestones, and an unusually clean case of a first design getting the architecture right, plus a patent case worth knowing.
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The Gothic Structural System: Ribbed Vault, Pointed Arch and Flying Buttress
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.
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The Iron and Steel Ship: Cellular Hulls and the Great Eastern
Three milestones in which a ship stopped being a shaped assembly of timbers and became a designed structure with a calculated stress distribution.
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