Engineering↗
Closing the Loop: Fly-by-Wire, Functional Safety and Propulsive Landing
Three milestones in which software became the thing keeping a machine stable, and one standard written because that made software a structural safety concern.
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Operations and Maintenance
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Operations and Maintenance. 6 pages.
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Computation as Infrastructure: Utility Computing and Machine Learning at Scale
Two recent milestones included for their engineering content rather than settled historical weight: computing became a utility, and pattern recognition became a matter of scale.
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Machines That Sustain Life: Dialysis, the Heart-Lung Machine and the Pacemaker
Three devices that take over the function of an organ, under constraints unlike anything else in engineering: the load cannot be reduced and there is no safe shutdown state.
Engineering↗
Manufacturing Drinking Water: Seawater Reverse Osmosis and Supply Security
Australian metropolitan desalination turned urban water supply from a hydrological problem into an energy and membrane one, and produced an asset with an unusual duty profile.
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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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The Petroleum Value Chain: From the First Oil Well to the Modern Refinery
A cased, drilled well and fractional distillation created an industry in two years. How well construction, barrier philosophy and refinery architecture actually work.
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