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Phillips Machine in the Science Museum, London. The Phillips Machine, also known as the MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer), Phillips Hydraulic Computer and the Financephalograph, is an analogue computer which uses fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy.
Earliest surviving example of the first successful traction ditching machine for laying agricultural drainage tiles. 1902 Findlay: Ohio United States Located at Hancock Historical Museum. ASME brochure. 134: 1988 Geared Locomotives of Heisler, Shay, Climax. Early examples of small slow-speed 19th-century geared locomotives. 1872 Felton: California
Executed example of a Heron's fountain in operation. Heron's fountain is a hydraulic machine invented by the 1st century AD inventor, mathematician, and physicist Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria. [1] Heron studied the pressure of air and steam, described the first steam engine, and built toys that would spurt water, one of them known as Heron's ...
Hydraulic Flood Retention Basin (HFRB) View from Church Span Bridge, Bern, Switzerland Riprap lining a lake shore. Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to ...
This specialised six-jack layout was first used by V E (Eric) Gough of the UK and was operational in 1954, [4] the design later being publicised in a 1965 paper by D Stewart to the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers. [5] In 1962, prior to the publication of Stewart's paper, American engineer Klaus Cappel independently developed the same ...
The screw pump is the oldest positive displacement pump. [1] The first records of a water screw, or screw pump, date back to Hellenistic Egypt before the 3rd century BC. [1] [3] The Egyptian screw, used to lift water from the Nile, was composed of tubes wound round a cylinder; as the entire unit rotates, water is lifted within the spiral tube to the higher elevation.
Hydraulic topics range through some parts of science and most of engineering modules, and they cover concepts such as pipe flow, dam design, fluidics, and fluid control circuitry. The principles of hydraulics are in use naturally in the human body within the vascular system and erectile tissue .
Reconstruction, Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum Reconstructed model, messages attached to rod, Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum. The ancient Greek design was described in the 4th century BC by Aeneas Tacticus and the 3rd century BC by the historian Polybius.