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The Inventor's Workshop - 0 views

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    "Leonardo developed a unique new attitude about machines. He reasoned that by understanding how each separate machine part worked, he could modify them and combine them in different ways to improve existing machines or create inventions no one had ever seen before. Leonardo set out to write the first systematic explanations of how machines work and how the elements of machines can be combined."
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"inQuiry Almanack" - Spotlighting... - March, 1997 - 0 views

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    "A machine is a tool used to make work easier. Simple machines are simple tools used to make work easier. Compound machines have two or more simple machines working together to make work easier. "
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Museum of Science and Industry | Simple Machines - 0 views

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    "Simple Machines Create simple machines to trade distance for force in this challenge game! "
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Wikijunior:How Things Work/The Six Simple Machines - Wikibooks, open books for an open ... - 0 views

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    "A simple machine is a device that changes the direction or amount of a force. They are the building blocks used to build more complex machines. For example, wheels, levers, screws, and pulleys are all used in a bicycle. The six simple machines are: Inclined Plane Lever Pulley Screw Wedge Wheel and Axle"
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Man Invents Machine To Convert Plastic Into Oil - 0 views

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    In an efficient and safe effort to save us from the ill-effects of plastic waste, Akinori Ito has developed a machine which converts plastic back into oil. The machine produced in various sizes, for both industrial and home uses, can easily transform a kilogram of plastic waste into a liter of oil, using about 1 kW·h of electricity but without emitting CO2 in the process. The machine uses a temperature controlling electric heater instead of flames, processing anything from polyethylene or polystyrene to polypropylene (numbers 2-4). Comment: 1 kg of plastic produces one liter of oil, which costs $1.50. This process uses only about 1 kW·h of electricity, which costs less than 20 cents!
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Simple Machines - 0 views

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    "Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed! "
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Edheads - The Compound Machine - 0 views

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    "Learn how forces and simple machines can work together to create The Compound Machine!"
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STEM: Inventions & Innovations Unit - Stacie Shaner - TeachersPayTeachers.com - 0 views

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    "students will complete four stations, discuss Rube Goldberg cartoons, review or learn about the six simple machines (inclined plane, wedge, pulley, lever, wheel and axle, and screw), and create their own Rube Goldberg contraptions using the simple machines."
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InventorsToolbox: The Elements of Machines - 0 views

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    "Simple Machines: These devices were all in common use for centuries before Leonardo's time. Each one makes work easier to do by providing some trade-off between the force applied and the distance over which the force is applied."
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AIRSHIP AFTER BUYER - 1 views

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    "Their machine is an adaptation of the box kite idea, with a propeller working on a perpendicular shaft to raise or lower the craft, and another working on a horizontal shaft to send it forward. The machine, it is said, can be raised or lowered with perfect control, and can carry a strong gasoline engine capable of making a speed of ten miles an hour. "
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices - 0 views

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    "fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception."
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How Laser Cutting Machines are Made - Core77 - 0 views

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    "A "How it's made" video showing how they make something that makes other things. Specifically, a laser cutting machine. The coolest thing we didn't know before seeing the video is that a laser beam must be the appropriate shape in order to cut optimally, just like a router bit or a kitchen knife designed for a specific task. "
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The Most Outrageous Way to Share a Coke - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Watch this video to see what iJustine, Josh TheComputerNerd01 and a few new friends came up with -- an incredible one-of-a-kind machine! "
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Tunnel Through! - Activity - www.TeachEngineering.org - 0 views

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    "Tunnel Through! Contributed by: Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder Photo shows two men looking at metal prongs coming through the side of a mountain with a crumbling rock pile in front of them. Workers look at the TBM cutterhead after it reached daylight in April 1997, after a 2.5-year journey excavating through Yucca Mountain, NV. TBM is a tunnel boring machine. Students apply their knowledge about mountains and rocks to transportation engineering, with the task of developing a model mountain tunnel that simulates the principles behind real-life engineering design. Student teams design and create model tunnels through a clay mountain, working within design constraints and testing for success; the tunnels must meet specific design requirements and withstand a certain load. "
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Powered Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour photos - 0 views

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    The most complex machine ever built by mankind. Check it out. Just think, the commander of the shuttle must know ever knob, dial and gauge and know how they all interact. Mind bending! After all that they must dead-stick the landing from space at enormous speeds, hit the spot and no go-arounds. One shot only. Interior Photos of Endeavour These photos capture the Flight Deck (cockpit) of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, fully powered for one of the final times. Just a few weeks later, at 9:58am EDT on May 11, Endeavour was powered down for the final time in history. It was the last of the three space shuttles to have power. Below, other views show the mid-deck, gutted of its lockers and storage areas, and three final photos show the white room entrance in the Orbiter Processing Facility, signed by thousands over the years.
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eGFI - For Teachers » Lesson: Learn about Torque - 0 views

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    "concept of torque through a short NBC Learn video on the science of the NFL, demonstrations, and a lab activity. Students learn how to calculate torque and determine how it is used in simple machines, everyday life, and in sports."
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SOLAR IMPULSE - AROUND THE WORLD IN A SOLAR AIRPLANE - 0 views

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    "The gigantic dimensions of this ultra-lightweight revolutionary airplane - capable of flying day and night without fuel - are its trademark feature. To build it, the whole team had to push back the frontiers of knowledge in materials science, energy management and the man-machine interface. Every one of its take-offs, propelled silently by its four electric motors, inspires us to consider using clean, new technologies to free our society, little by little, from dependence on fossil energy. "
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our blog | techfortrade.org - 0 views

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    "WOOF's winning project will enable waste plastic to be used as filament for 3D printing machines, to create new products. The winning team, Bethany Weeks, Matthew Rogge and Brandon Bowman, plan to work with US based NGO, Water for Humans (WFH), to address local issues in water and sanitation in Oaxaca, Mexico."
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Science Of Innovation - Science360 - The Knowledge Network - 0 views

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    "Science Of Innovation - From Thomas Edison's light bulb to Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine, inventors and inventions transform the way we communicate, travel and live our daily lives--thanks to the creative process of innovation. That process is highlighted in this video series The Science of Innovation. In celebration of the 165th birthday of one of America's greatest innovators, Thomas Edison, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and NBC Learn, produced this 11-part series narrated by NBC News' Ann Curry highlighting innovators from across the country. "
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PhysOrg.com - electromagnet - 1 views

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    "An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by the flow of electric current. The magnetic field disappears when the current is turned off. Electromagnets are widely used as components of other electrical devices, such as motors, generators, relays, loudspeakers, hard disks, MRI machines, scientific instruments, and magnetic separation equipment, as well as being employed as industrial lifting electromagnets for picking up and moving heavy iron objects like scrap iron."
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