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Entries from March 2008

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Construction of the Eiffel Tower

March 31st, 2008 · Add a Comment

Today in History – March 31, 1889 – Eiffel Tower opens. The 300m Eiffel Tower was commissioned to commemorate the French Revolution. Amazingly, all of the elements were prepared in Gustav Eiffel’s factory located at Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris. There were 18,000 pieces used to construct the Tower. Each piece was designed [...]

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Tags: Architectural Engineering · Civil Engineering · Construction Engineering · General Engineering, Engineering Science

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Polyethylene is discovered

March 27th, 2008 · Add a Comment

Today in History – March 27, 1933 – Polyethylene is discovered. Polythene is also known as polyethene or polyethylene. It was discovered in 1933 by Reginald Gibson and Eric Fawcett, two scientists working at ICI’s research laboratory at Winnington, Durham, who accidentally discovered the white, waxy solid while attempting to react ethylene with benzaldehyde [...]

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Tags: Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering · Chemistry · Materials Engineering

Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: RCA announced the production of color television sets.

March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today in History – March 25, 1954 – Production of RCA’s first color television sets. RCA based their color television on the 1947 patent application of Alfred Schroeder, for a shadow mask CRT. Their system passed FCC approval in late 1953 and sales of RCA color televisions began on March 25, 1954.
Yet, [...]

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Tags: Computer Engineering · Electrical Engineering · General Engineering, Engineering Science

Vote – Engineering Pathway Photo/Image Competition

March 24th, 2008 · 8 Comments

 

K-12 Engineering Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.

 

 
 
 

Engineers in Action Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.

 

Technology Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.
The Engineering Pathway has initiated a photo competition to highlight image thumbnails of its cataloged resources. The main K-Gray pages will use these highlighted resources and their [...]

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Tags: Computing · Engineering

Vote – Engineering Pathway Photo/Image Competition – Nuclear Engineering

March 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 

Engineers in Action Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.

 
 

Technology Thumbnails. Click on image for catalog record.
The Engineering Pathway has initiated a photo competition to highlight image thumbnails of its cataloged resources. The higher education Disciplinary Community pages will have two of these images at the top — one action image of people [...]

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Tags: Nuclear Engineering

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