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The Tchoban Foundation, a private trust based in Berlin, runs the museum to promote architectural drawing by hand. It was founded by the architect Sergei Tchoban in 2009. . Its aim is to foster the drawing skills of talented young architects and to make the founder’s collection accessible for stu
An early example of USRA passenger locomotives representing the first US standardization program. 1919 Jacksonville: Florida United States Located at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. ASME brochure. 149: 1990 Hydromatic Propeller Early example of propeller innovations, including variable-pitch control and feathering capability. 1938 Windsor Locks
The Leonardo da Vinci section exhibits many Leonardo machines reproduced from Da Vinci drawings, [4] including a hydraulic saw, a spinning machine, a flying machine and Leonardo's tank. The models of the collection are the fruit of a reinterpretation by a group of experts who have translated and completed his drawings.
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 ...
Example mechanical drawing. Here is an example of an engineering drawing (an isometric view of the same object is shown above). The different line types are colored for clarity. Black = object line and hatching; Red = hidden line; Blue = center line of piece or opening; Magenta = phantom line or cutting plane line
A more complex example of a P&ID. A piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is defined as follows: A diagram which shows the interconnection of process equipment and the instrumentation used to control the process. In the process industry, a standard set of symbols is used to prepare drawings of processes.
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.
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.