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“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”
- Albert Einstein
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This aquarium allows kids to see the fish they drew inside it 🐠😍
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Term of the day: Alkene
Definition: An unsaturated hydrocarbon that contains at least one carbon–carbon double bond. The words alkene and olefin are often used interchangeably.
Did you see the one on the left at first? Haha this is wire EDM stuff is too much fun!
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On Jan 26, 1905 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
Chemical element: Gold (Latin Aurum)
Precious metal (nuggets, flakes) that is used as currency (ingots) and in jewelry, dentistry and electronics.
Replying to @scale_banana: Cistercian numerals, or “ciphers" (used by medieval monks) makes it possible to indicate any integer from 1 to 9999. http…
TIL: The tiles on the space shuttle have very low conductivity (ability to move heat around) and very low heat capacity (ability to store heat in a volume) that you can pick them up straight out of a 2200 degree oven.
World of Engineering Quiz:
How does a semiconductor behave at absolute zero?
Cistercian numerals, or “ciphers" (used by medieval monks) makes it possible to indicate any integer from 1 to 9999.
Twitter: "I can't"
Email: "I cannot"
Essay of 2500 words: "Henceforth, I am unable to can"
How to relight a candle using the candle smoke 🕯
“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.”
- Michio Kaku
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Historic invention of the day:
2019: IBM launches IBM Q System One, its first integrated quantum computing system for commercial use.
Term of the day: Alkane
Definition: An alkane, or paraffin, is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which all the carbon–carbon bonds are single.
A fully-automated warehouse solution
Why did you choose to be an engineer?
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