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    time. Differential analysers, a type of mechanical analogue computer, were used from approximately 1900 to 1950. These devices used differential gear trains...
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    designed a mechanical device to integrate differential equations of the first order. The first description of a device which could integrate differential equations...
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  • a zoo in Oxfordshire, England Crown Wheel and Pinion, see Differential (mechanical device) Current Warming Period, see Global warming Catch Wrestling...
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  • of the corresponding ciphertexts Differential (mechanical device), as part of a motor vehicle drivetrain, the device that allows driving wheels or axles...
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  • Underpower Relay 37P - Underpower 38 - Bearing Protective Device / Bearing Rtd 39 - Mechanical Condition Monitor (Vibration) 40 - Field Relay / Loss of...
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    mechanical devices that were used in historic equation clocks, but the function is the same. Equation of time Sundial Clock Differential (mechanical device)...
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  • In the study of mechanical networks in control theory, an inerter is a two-terminal device in which the forces applied at the terminals are equal, opposite...
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  • International Film Festival a motor vehicle's differential (mechanical device) White blood cell differential, a medical test enumerating each type of white...
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    sensors. A counterpart to this device that is used for measuring rotary displacement is called a rotary variable differential transformer (RVDT). LVDTs are...
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    Machine (redirect from Mechanical device)
    movement, often called mechanical systems. Renaissance natural philosophers identified six simple machines which were the elementary devices that put a load...
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    Commonly available driver types include open collector, mechanical, push-pull and differential RS-422. Open collector drivers (using an NPN transistor...
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  • most common solution is to use a mechanical device to distribute torque to the wheels. This mechanical differential allows different wheel speeds when...
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    until it tightened and caused the man's wrists to swell. Differential pulley Hoist (device) Sarton, George (1959). "Part 2, Hellenistic Science and Culture...
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    motor vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical devices, weapons, and others. Mechanical engineering emerged as a field during the Industrial Revolution...
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    locking differential is a mechanical component, commonly used in vehicles, designed to overcome the chief limitation of a standard open differential by essentially...
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  • compass-vehicle device, Ma Jun created one of the first mechanical devices in the world to employ differential gear designs. Referring to history of differential gears...
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    A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or a simulation...
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    Computer (redirect from Computing device)
    calculations since ancient times. Early in the Industrial Revolution, some mechanical devices were built to automate long, tedious tasks, such as guiding patterns...
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    mechanically are called pressure gauges, vacuum gauges or compound gauges (vacuum & pressure). The widely used Bourdon gauge is a mechanical device,...
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    piezoelectric device to generate full audio Buzzer – Electromagnetic or piezoelectric sounder to generate tones Position, motion Linear variable differential transformer...
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    distribute force across the hull of the boats it carries. Differential (mechanical device), which does for torque what each layer of a whippletree does...
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  • and the slippage and "lash" issues of mechanical analog systems. For problems that can be expressed as differential equations, a hardware DDA can solve...
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    column—and even differential analysis. One model, the Ascota 170 accounting machine sold in the 1960s, calculated square roots. Mechanical computers can...
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    South-pointing chariot (category Mechanical engineering)
    uncertainties. Some chariots' mechanisms may have had differential gears. The south-pointing chariot, a mechanical-geared, wheeled vehicle used to discern the southern...
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    Viscous coupling unit (category Mechanical devices using viscosity)
    A viscous coupling is a mechanical device which transfers torque and rotation by the medium of a viscous fluid. Rotary viscous couplings with interleaved...
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    Vannevar Bush and others developed mechanical differential analyzers. The Dumaresq was a mechanical calculating device invented around 1902 by Lieutenant...
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    gauge (MSG), is a device incorporating a calibrated screw for accurate measurement of the size of components. It widely used in mechanical engineering, machining...
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  • Torque amplifier (category Mechanical power control)
    amplifier is a mechanical device that amplifies the torque of a rotating shaft without affecting its rotational speed. It is mechanically related to the...
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    sophisticated device for calculating the motions of stars and planets. This remarkable assembly of more than 30 gears with a differential... Allen, Martin...
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    tarfandhâ, lit. 'Book of Tricks') is a large illustrated work on mechanical devices, including automata, published in 850 by the three brothers of Persian...
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