Engineering Innovations
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Compact Disc Audio Player Eindhoven, |
On 8 March 1979, N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player. The demonstration showed that it is possible by using… |
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Controlled Directional Drilling Conroe, TX |
H. John Eastman introduces controlled directional drilling in 1929 and was awarded a patent the following year. The technique became widely adopted after an oil strike in Conroe… |
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Conwy Suspension Bridge Conwy, North Wales |
When a new road bridge was constructed alongside it, plans were made to demolish the Conwy Suspension Bridge. There was a national outcry and, since 1958, the bridge has been in… |
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Conwy Tubular Bridge Conwy, North Whales |
Built by Robert Stephenson to carry the Chester and Holyhead Railway across the River Conwy, this bridge was erected between 1846 and 1848. It consists of a single span 400 feet… |
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Coolspring Power Museum Coolspring, PA |
Early internal combustion engines produced only a few horsepower and were unable to replace steam engines in most applications until about 1890. By then, they were powerful enough… |
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Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection Mount Vernon, OH |
These engines, built by Cooper & Co., of Mount Vernon are among the oldest surviving agricultural steam engines to show the evolution from the portable, skid-mounted engine (… |
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Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Compressor Mount Vernon, OH |
This compressor was a product of the combined technology and design heritage of both the C. & G. Cooper Company of Mount Vernon and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company of… |
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Cooperative Fuel Research Engine Waukesha, WI |
The Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engine is used extensively throughout the world for testing, research, and instruction in the performance of fuels and lubricants for the… |
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Corn Silage Harvester Falcon Heights, MN |
Charles C. Fenno Of Grinnell, Ia, Patented The First Field Corn Silage Harvester On April 19, 1892. His Ground-Powered Machine Cut The Corn Plant And Fed The Tassel End First To A… |
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Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (Calspan) Buffalo, NY |
Tracing its history to the earliest days of powered flight – to the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss – the site began as the research laboratory of the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft… |
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Corning Ribbon Machine Dearborn, MI |
While Thomas Edison perfected the first practical and durable filament in 1879, it was not until much later that electricity left the laboratory to become the universal source of… |
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Cornish - Windsor Covered Bridge Cornish, VT |
The Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge is the longest wooden bridge in the United States and the longest two-span, covered bridge in the world. It is also a classic example of wooden… |
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Cornwall Iron Furnace Lebanon, PA |
When erected by Peter Grubb to smelt the rich iron ore of the nearby Cornwall ore banks, this stone-built blast furnace was typical for its time, producing about 20 tons of pig-… |
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Cortland Street Drawbridge Chicago, IL |
In 1899, engineers from the City of Chicago's Division of Bridges and Viaducts performed a survey of moveable bridge design in the U.S. and Europe. Their study led to the… |
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Cotton Gin Savannah, GA |
This Creative Development Which Was Responsible For The Survival Of The Cotton Industry In The United States Occurred In General Nathaniel Greene's Plantation Near Savannah 10… |
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Cotton Products Research New Orleans, LA |
By the 1950s, synthetic fabrics - often wrinkle resistant and flame retardant - began to overtake cotton as the dominant U.S. textile fiber. To reverse this trend chemists and… |
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County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations County Kerry, |
The discoveries of electricity in the latter half of the 18th Century, and its close connection with magnetism, were the products of earlier experiments, which in turn led to the… |
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Craigellachie Bridge Aberlour, Moray |
This elegant cast iron arch bridge designed by Scotland's famous Thomas Telford was built from 1812 to 1814. It is the earliest surviving example of a portable lattice-braced… |
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Cranetown Triangulation Site Essex County, NJ |
The precise system of measurements provided today by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey originated with an act of Congress under the administration of Thomas Jefferson in 1807… |
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Crawler Transporters of Launch Complex 39 , FL |
The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly… |
