Engineering Innovations
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The Beckman pH Meter Pasadena, |
When Arnold Beckman, a professor of analytical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, was asked to devise a way to measure acidity in citrus fruit, the resulting “… |
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The Belle Isle Gas Turbine Oklahoma City, OK |
The Belle Isle gas turbine was installed in 1949 and was the first gas turbine built in the United States for the purpose of generating electric power. Its low cost and… |
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The Boeing Red Barn Seattle, WA |
This former shipyard was the first home of the The Boeing Company, founded in 1916. Affectionately called the Red Barn, this structure was built in 1909, and became the historic … |
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The Chemical Revolution - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris, |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier studied at the Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (then "Collège Mazarin") from 1754 to 1761. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences… |
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The Cincinnati Observatory Cincinnati, OH |
The Cincinnati Observatory, “The Birthplace of American Astronomy,” is the oldest professional observatory in the United States. Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, the “Father of… |
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The Circular, Corrugated, Galvinized Steel Grain Bins Manhattan, KS |
Prior to the development of circular, corrugated, galvanized steel grain bins, prefabricated, non-corrugated steel bins were used because of cost, portability, rodent resistance… |
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The Cotton Module Builder College Station, TX |
Cotton was once transported from farms to gins by wagons, trucks or trailers. Long waits to unload at the gin stalled harvests until haulers could return to the fields.… |
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The Dalles Lock and Dam The Dalles, OR |
The Dalles Lock and Dam was one of the largest, most complete, and complex multipurpose projects of its kind in the United States at the time of its construction. It provided an… |
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The First Flaked Cereal Battle Creek, MI |
In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother, Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, were making a granola type cereal for their patients in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a general health… |
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The Oliver Chilled Cast-Iron Plow South Bend, IN |
On June 30, 1857, James Oliver filed a patent application for chilling the wear face of cast-iron moldboard plows. While pouring molten cast iron in sand molds he circulated hot… |
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The Reactive Noble Gases Vancouver, BC |
In 1962 Neil Bartlett demonstrated the first reaction of a noble gas. The noble gas family of elements - helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon - had previously been… |
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The Red Wing Project on Utilization of Electricity Red Wing, MN |
The object of the Red Wing project was "To determine the optimum economic uses of electricity in agriculture and to study the value of electricity in improved living conditions on… |
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The USDA Small Watershed Program Stillwater, OK |
Since 1948, over 11,000 dams and associated conservation practices in more than 2,000 watershed projects encompassing 160 million acres in 47 states have been constructed as a… |
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Theodore Roosevelt Dam & Salt River Project Tonto National Forest, AZ |
The first electric power generated by the Theodore Roosevelt Dam for commercial use was transmitted over a high-voltage line to Phoenix, where it was employed to operate the city'… |
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Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit Minneapolis, MN |
The refrigeration units placed on trucks in 1938 by Thermo King Corp. revolutionized the transportation of perishable foods. Today they are a common sight on streets everywhere.… |
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Thomas Viaduct Railroad Bridge Arbutus, MD |
Opened in 1835, the Thomas Viaduct was the first multiple-arch, stone railroad viaduct in the United States. The viaduct is composed of eight arches each with a clear span of… |
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Thrust SSC Supersonic Car Coventry, |
First Land Vehicle to Exceed the Speed of Sound; averaged 763.04 mph (1227.99 km/h), Mach 1.02 Powered by two Rolls-Royce MK 202 Spey Turbofan engines which produced over 44,… |
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Tidbinbilla Tracking Station Paddys River, ACT |
Established 1965 the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station, as well as the Honeysuckle Creek (1967-1981) and Orroral Valley (1965-1985) sites, supported NASA’s Deep Space Network, Manned… |
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Tipon Tipon, |
Tipon is a self-contained, walled settlement that served as an estate for Inca nobility. Located 13 miles down the Huatanay River Valley by the Inca capital of Cusco, the 500-acre… |
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Titan Crane Clydebank, |
The Titan is a 200-ton electrically driven hammerhead cantilever crane, the earliest survivor of this type. It is now all that remains of the once great John Brown Shipyard in… |
