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Every invention, one connected map of how things work.

Technology and Engineering Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of invention and the built world, from machines, materials, and methods to bridges, circuits, and beyond. Search any invention and follow its threads through everything it made possible.

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Military Engineering

Military engineering is the art, science and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining the lines of transport and communicatio

Inventions

Optical Spectrometer

An optical spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, most often used

Engineers

Eugene Freyssinet

Eugene Freyssinet (1879-1962) was a French structural and civil engineer regarded as the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. He did not invent the

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Silicon

Silicon is a chemical element and semiconductor, the second most abundant element in the Earth crust, whose electrical conductivity can be precisely c

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Photolithography

Photolithography transfers a geometric pattern onto a light-sensitive chemical coating, called a photoresist, on a substrate, usually a silicon wafer,

Engineered Systems

Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam, officially the Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project, is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River

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History of technology

Was Garrett AiResearch's classified Central Air Data Computer chip set (1968-1970), Texas Instruments' 1971 single-chip CPU patent, or Intel's commercially released 4004 (1971) the first true microprocessor?

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