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18 de abr. de 2012 · Samuel Colt, the second-youngest of seven children, was born in 1814 in Hartford, CT, to Samuel and Sarah Colt. As a young boy he showed a fascination with machinery and was adept at taking apart and reassembling equipment, especially his father's firearms. He enjoyed reading articles about inventors, gunpowder, and other explosives.
Amos Whitney, who had worked for Samuel Colt, the company was highly respected for its machine tools. Pratt & Whitney would put up $250,000, machine tools and factory space and have a 50 percent interest in the new Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company. Rentschler and chief engineer George Mead would hold the other half. Mead
Working out of a shop in Colt's Armory, James W. Paige invented his compositor in 1877 by combining his gravity typesetter with a Thompson distributor. It has 18,000 parts and numerous bearings, cams, and springs and could average 12,000 ems an hour. The surviving machine, the first of two, was completed in 1887 under the direction of Charles E ...
19 de jul. de 2012 · About ASME Building Equipment Contractors Electrical Equipment and Appliance Manufacturing Oil and Gas Extraction. Even more than the cotton gin, the mass production put into motion by Massachusetts farm boy Eli Whitney (1765 – 1825) in his push to manufacture muskets was certainly one of the biggest steps in the development of the modern ...
Peter Colt. They envisioned a multi-tiered raceway system that would channel water for power to mills to be constructed and operated by the S.U.M. along its path. The early raceway system operated from 1794 to 1799 and drew water from the Passaic through a wooden dam above the Falls (see Fig. 1). The water than entered into a reservoir and ...
9 de mar. de 2012 · Blood is drawn through microfluidic channels where reagents identify disease molecules. In 2010, Samuel K. Sia wrapped up five years of developing and field testing a novel microfluidic device that promises to simply and quickly diagnose HIV and other diseases in rural, isolated regions of the developing world. That may have been the easy part.
2 de jun. de 2016 · ASME Associate Executive Director Noha El-Ghobashy (left) and KPMG Kenya’s Samuel Njeri with ISHOW winner Lawrence Ojok, creator of the Green Rock Drill. The third winner of the 2016 ISHOW Kenya was Taita Ngetich for his entry, the Smart Mobile Farming system for small-scale farmers.
3 de abr. de 2012 · About ASME Building Equipment Contractors Electric Power. Seth Boyden (1788-1870) was a prolific 19th century American inventor, born in Foxboro, MA, whose ingenuity seemed to be part of his family tree. His brother Uriah was inventor of the Boyden Turbine and his brother Alexander co-founded a malleable iron company, based on Seth inventing ...
The Ralph Coats Roe Medal, established in 1972, recognizes an outstanding contribution toward a better public understanding and appreciation of the engineer’s worth to contemporary society. The successful candidate is expected to give an authoritative lecture in his/her field at a general session during the ASME Annual Meeting.
21 de mai. de 2012 · What madethe rock drillpossible was the invention of the percussion drill in 1871 by Simon Ingersoll (1818 – 1894), considered a genius in mechanical engineering. The drill has played an important role in excavation, mining, tunneling, and highway construction ever since. Ingersoll was born in 1818 in Stanwich, CT, where he received an ...
