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Signals and mobile phones

08/08/2008 by Pranav Herur
Hi All, It has always bothered me as to how a mobile phone picks up its tower. Say, I am in city centre and I get signals from 4 towers(assuming th...
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Russia has invaded Georgia

08/08/2008 by Roger Pink
Somehow this isn't getting much news coverage. Russia invaded Georgia today. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.htm...
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Sears Lawn Tractor

08/08/2008 by Guest
I have a Sears Lawn Tractor and the blades keep starting and stopping as I mow. When I turn the mower on, they work fine. Shortly after, the blades...
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DS1307 info

08/08/2008 by amsung2
can any one tell me if there is any programmer kit out there that can program an 8951 and DS1307? if not, then is there any IC an atmel's arsenal that...
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Last comment 08/08/2008 by dbdwoods
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Commercial Space

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Distribution on Guatemalan Republic

08/07/2008 by Guest
I want to distribute your products, like solars panels, in the Guatemalan Republic, would you tell me if that is posible??? Tanks, Edgar Carrera, Serm...
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here is something interesting http://phoenixnavigation.com/mainmenu.htm

08/07/2008 by kstang69@yahoo.com
what does every one think of this web site?
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looking for distributor for refrigerator

08/06/2008 by wilsonfurong
We specialize in manufacturing the following products: supermarket, convenient store special refrigeration equipment; food processing machinery; comme...
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Montech Servoiline Components Available

08/05/2008 by Guest
Where best should I post the availability of Montech Servoline Components ?
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CR4 Feedback

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A change in rating parameters?

08/07/2008 by sidevalveguru
WTF!! This morning i had ~ 7 "good answers" credited to me! Tonight i have 1! WHERE'D THEY GO ??????
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Harmonics Regulations of Saudi

08/02/2008 by kvsubramanyam
I am going to supply 30 Power Electronic equipment to Dammam, Saudi Arabia that generate up to 20% Harmonics (5th & 7th) and lower PF to 0.65.Can...
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Last comment 08/04/2008 by kvsubramanyam
 

Message to Admins?

07/28/2008 by editorgbanalysts
How does one send messages directly to the forum admins?
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Last comment 07/28/2008 by Chris Leonard
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"On This Day" In Engineering History

174 blog entries, 528 comments (3 Viewing)

August 7, 1978: Toxic Tragedy at Love Canal (Part 2)

08/08/2008 by Moose
During the late 1970s, heavy snow and rainfalls raised groundwater levels in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York. As water pool...
Pathfinder Tags: chemical waste industrial waste landfills toxic waste
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August 7, 1978: Toxic Tragedy at Love Canal (Part 1)

08/07/2008 by Moose
On this day in engineering history, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York....
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Last comment 08/08/2008 by Tad
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Aerospace Blog

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Life Aboard an Aircraft Carrier (Part 4)

08/05/2008 by joeymac
Deployment aboard an aircraft carrier usually lasts for six months - as long as nothing extreme happens and you don't get extended, which can happe...
Pathfinder Tags: aerospace aircraft carrier aviation F-18 navy
Views: 211, Comments: 3
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Life Aboard an Aircraft Carrier (Part 3)

08/04/2008 by joeymac
While you were in port and not on duty, you made sure to get off that ship as soon as possible. After being onboard an aircraft carrier for anywhere...
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Last comment 08/06/2008 by joeymac
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TechnoTourist’s Engineering Expeditions

18 blog entries, 44 comments (0 Viewing)

Beyond Cancun: The Animals and Archaeology of Xcaret

08/04/2008 by SavvyExacta
Xcaret is a self-proclaimed ecological theme park in Playa del Carmen, a seaside resort just south of Cancun, Mexico. Located right on the ocean, it...
Pathfinder Tags: ceonotes ecotourism Mayan ruins Mexico wildlife preserve ...
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Last comment 08/05/2008 by bakerjohn

Antique Engine & Equipment Gas-Up

06/23/2008 by Irving
One of my favorite events to attend is the Annual "Gas Up" Antique Engine & Equipment Show in Gallupville New York. It is held every year ove...
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Last comment 06/27/2008 by Irving
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Challenge Questions

194 blog entries, 15051 comments (6 Viewing)

Energy Savings: Newsletter Challenge (08/01/08)

07/31/2008 Welcome to August edition of Monthly Challenge Question from Specs & Techs by GlobalSpec: A medium size company in th...
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Bell Intensity: CR4 Challenge (07/29/08)

07/27/2008 This week's CR4 Challenge Question: You ring a bell once, with the ring clapper. If you measure the intensity of the sound along the rim of the...
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WoW Blog

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RIP Harriet Burns, Imagineer and Disney Legend

07/31/2008 by julie
Harriet Burns, the first female Imagineer at Walt Disney Studios died this week at 79. She helped design and build prototypes for theme park attrac...
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July 25: Four Women Who Made a Difference

07/25/2008 by julie
In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are th...
Pathfinder Tags: James Barry Louise Joy Brown Rosalind Franklin Svetlana Savitskaya
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Last comment 07/28/2008 by Moose
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Kate’s Controversies

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Who’s Driving? In China, It Depends on the Day

07/31/2008 by Sharkles
For as long as I can remember, China has been the country with the most people and the worst pollution problems. In recent years, the Chinese gove...
Pathfinder Tags: Beijing Engineering controversies enviornment olympics pollution
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Men in Floods

07/10/2008 by Sharkles
Last week, I was in a restaurant talking with some people who had recently moved to New York's capital region from Missouri. Their reason for mov...
Pathfinder Tags: death rates Engineering controversies floods safety
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Last comment 07/28/2008 by Taganan
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The Engineer's Book Club

8 blog entries, 36 comments (0 Viewing)

Book Review: In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto

07/28/2008 by julie
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto is the author's follow-up work to The Omnivore's Dilemma. If you read The Omnivore's Dil...
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Last comment 07/29/2008 by Jaxy
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Abe's Blog

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Free Courses for All!

07/23/2008 by amichelen
Since the year 2000 MIT started an initiative (called OpenCourseWare)that would publish all their courses in the web for everybody to see, enjoy and l...
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The Longest Virtual Run - ASEE (2)

07/03/2008 by amichelen
As I explained last week, I attended the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Pittsburgh. One of the booth I visited o...
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Last comment 07/23/2008 by artgatenby
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The Y Files

87 blog entries, 1019 comments (1 Viewing)

The Duct Tape – Woodpecker Fiasco

07/22/2008 by Jaxy
It is remarkable when three generations come together for a grueling cause. Even rarer is when they come together to plant trees. My grandfather,...
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Photoshop and the Iranian Missile That Wasn't

07/10/2008 by Moose
Yesterday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard released an image of a missile test that news agencies around the world are now claiming was digitally-altered....
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Last comment 07/29/2008 by EnviroMan
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Engineering Management

31 blog entries, 113 comments (0 Viewing)

The More Things Change

07/15/2008 Many companies manage their electronic infrastructure as though the technological future will look pretty much like the past. Yet the revolution champ...
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How Do You Protect Your Success?

06/17/2008 Market dominance in technology industries is extremely difficult to maintain. If Microsoft can't pass the torch from one generation to the next and st...
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Great Engineers & Scientists

74 blog entries, 174 comments (1 Viewing)

Engineers of the American Revolution (Part 2)

07/05/2008 by Moose
They're as American as haggis and Scotch, Gouda and bloedworst, or coq au vin and champagne. Robert Erskine, Simeon DeWitt, and Louis Duportail may...
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Engineers of the American Revolution (Part 1)

07/04/2008 by Moose
They're as American as kielbasa and cabbage, lobster and baked beans. Thaddeus Kosciusko, Richard Gridley, and Rufus Putnam may not be household nam...
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Last comment 07/07/2008 by Moose
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Relativity and Cosmology

85 blog entries, 1733 comments (1 Viewing)

How BIG is the Cosmos?

07/01/2008 by Jorrie
Having just read Janna Levin's excellent book "How the Universe got its spots", I'm still pondering her statement that the universe probably appea...
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Relativistic Orbits Demystified

06/09/2008 by Jorrie
This is an 'engineering-view' of relativistic orbits, written in the terms and mathematics that most engineers are comfortable with, yet it is scienti...
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Drawing Board to Flying School

07/31/2008 posted in Inventions That Changed The Way We Think
by davah
http://drive.123-reg.co.uk/F/5022885-166930853 Here is the second tranche of Whittle's papers showing the diagrams and designs. FW's fat...
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Frank Whittle: Life over view

07/29/2008 posted in Inventions That Changed The Way We Think
by davah
http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/achievements/whittle/telgraph.htm To gain the insight into the thinking of FW we need first of all to have an ov...
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Initial Studies

07/24/2008 posted in Inventions That Changed The Way We Think
by davah
Some of the original theory that Frank Whittle went through as the proof of the ability of the gas turbine is simple engineering and fairly easy to fo...
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The Great Freeze of 2009

07/21/2008 posted in Embedded Now Blog
by mavella
I'm worried about this winter. A lot. It's about 97 in Phoenix right now and we're hoping for a thunderstorm soon, today or tomorrow. California has...
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Evolution of the Optical Disc

07/08/2008 posted in TeknologikL
by Kaplin
Optical discs are one of the most popular methods of storing data electronically on mediums such as Compact Disc (CD), Digital Versatile Disc (DVD),...
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