A chance "eureka moment" by a Scottish physicist solved a problem that had plagued the transatlantic cable -- and made a lord out of the man who had the insight. One of the fundamental problems of ...

The creation, development, and implementation of today's high-speed circuits and passive interconnections requires a good understanding of how electrons, traveling through a medium, behave at various ...

GALVANOMETERS of innumerable kinds abound, and each form has some special merit which renders it useful for certain restricted services. The old astatic instrument of Nobili is still preferred by many ...

Tech companies like Google and Microsoft have been working on augmented reality (AR) wearables that can superimpose images over your field of view, blurring the line between the real and virtual.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This instrument was designed to ...

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 9 (Jul., 1906), pp. 173-174 (3 pages) ...

High-precision applications such as deep engraving, PV, precision cutting, etc are requiring smaller spot sizes (therefore larger beam apertures) and very high stability motion. Cambridge Technology ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

The film explores the concept of electricity, demonstrating how it can be generated through simple experiments such as rubbing different materials together. It explains the basics of electric currents ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A galvanometer with a glass cover and ...

I suppose I can take credit for introducing the super awesome [Fran Blanche] to Hackaday’s very own crotchety old man and Commodore refugee [Bil Herd]. I therefore take complete responsibility for ...