There is concern expressed within engineering circles that the number of U.S. patents being filed by U.S. manufacturers has been declining. As noted by the president of a leading patent, trademark and copyright association, “fewer than half of U.S. patents issued will be going to U.S. inventors...
The Board has had occasion to consider the issue of falsification or misrepresentation of academic or professional qualifications on a number of occasions. The issue of falsification or misrepresentation of academic...
The name “Tesla” is most often associated with the electric-powered car manufactured by Telsa, Inc., named after inventor Nikola Tesla. Because Thomas Edison and other inventors received more notoriety and have been celebrated for inventions and concepts pioneered by Nikola Tesla, few people know how truly brilliant and pioneering Tesla was ...
In the late 1800s, when railroads were beginning to connect every corner of the United Kingdom, the National Board of Railroads commissioned a bridge over the Firth of Tay. This bridge was to have a high span so that sailing ships plying between the UK and Australia...
The Egyptian pyramids of Giza are some of the most impressive manmade structures in the history of our planet. It’s estimated that they were built over 4,500 years ago with over two million stones over a period of 20 to 30 years ...
In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger was conducting drilling operations for ODECO off Newfoundland. The Ocean Ranger was a self-propelled oil-drilling platform that was capable of operating in 1,500 feet of ocean water and drilling to a depth of 25,000 feet. Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan ...
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of California. Initially designed by engineer Joseph Baermann Strauss in 1917, the Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco and Marin County and spans the Golden Gate Strait, which separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean ...
On the evening of 18 January 1978, nearly 5,000 spectators watched a basketball game in the three-year-old Hartford Center. It was the jewel of an urban renewal program in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and boasted the largest single span of roof ever lifted into place as a complete unit. The roof was an engineering marvel ...
Although not widely known, a small number of women have achieved impressive engineering accomplishments that have changed the way the world lives, works, and plays ...
In 2008, the energy company BP received a permit to drill a subsurface oil well in the Gulf of Mexico called the Macondo well. For this project, BP chartered the 10-year-old rig Deepwater Horizon from its owner, Transocean. Halliburton was responsible for cementing work ...
