Today in History – October 31, 1941 – Mount Rushmore was completed. The Mount Rushmore project was an incredible feat of engineering and an integration of art and technology. It is the largest work of art on earth with a face that is 60 feet high. Although the workers regularly used dynamite and heavy equipment, [...]

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Today in History – October 30, 1894 - Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, N.Y. received the first U.S. patent for a time clock card recorder (No. 528,223).  Called the “Rochester”, the time clock was manufactured by the Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company. Timecards were inserted into the machine and recorded the time on cards using horizontal [...]

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Today in History – October 27, 1904 – the New York City subway first opens. The New York City Subway is the largest subway car fleet in the world, operates 24-hours-a-day, and (along with the connecting bus system) supports a ridership of approximately seven million daily. That’s now. Although smaller private ventures operated earlier, the [...]

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The 2011 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded for M-Model8: An Online Homework Tool for Engineering Mechanics, by Edward Anderson of Texas Tech University. The award was presented at the Premier Award Ceremony at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held this year in Rapid City, South Dakota. The award-winning courseware was [...]

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Today in History- October 21, 1824 – Portland cement is patented by Joseph Aspdin, a stone mason in Yorkshire, England (UK patent No. 5022). He made it by burning finely pulverized lime and clay at high temperatures in kilns and grinding the mixture into a powder. This hydraulic cement would then harden with the addition [...]

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