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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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Engineering Economics
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Engineering Economics. 8 pages.
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Electric Traction: Railway Electrification and a Second Current War
Three milestones in which electricity moved into railway traction, and in which the alternating-versus-direct argument was fought again under different constraints.
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Engineering the System: Containerisation, Motorway Networks and Critical Path Scheduling
Three milestones within two years, none of which invented a device. Each fixed an interface or made a hidden structure explicit, and each generated more value than most inventio…
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Generation Without Fuel: Photovoltaics and the Modern Wind Turbine
Two milestones whose importance lies in decades of accumulated process improvement rather than in a breakthrough, and in what a zero marginal fuel cost does to a power system.
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Iron at Scale: Coke Smelting, Puddling and the Boring Mill
Four milestones in metallurgy and machine tools without which the steam engine would have remained a curiosity, one of them driven by an environmental crisis.
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Power to the Water: Screw Propulsion, Expansion Engines and Oil Firing
Four milestones in which marine propulsion moved from consuming most of the ship to leaving room for the cargo that paid for it.
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Roads and Canals: Brindley, Tresaguet, Telford and the Erie
Four milestones in moving goods overland, and a reminder that for bulk freight before the railway, water beat road every time.
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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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