Mechanical Engineering

German mechanical engineers

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.

20th-century American mechanical engineers

19th-century American mechanical engineers

Henry Laurence Gantt (; May 20, 1861, November 23, 1919) was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who worked in the development of scientific management.

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: , German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʀɪsti̯an kaʁl ˈdiːzl̩] ; 18 March 1858-29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer.

19th-century American mechanical engineers

Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927, February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator, and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present.

Liang Lingzan (simplified Chinese: 梁令瓒; traditional Chinese: 梁令瓚; pinyin: Liáng Lìngzàn; Wade-Giles: Liang Ling-Tsan) was a Chinese artist, astronomer, inventor, mechanical engineer and politician of the Kaiyuan era during the Tang dynasty.

19th-century American mechanical engineers

Andrew Meikle (5 May 1719-27 November 1811) was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.

English mechanical engineers

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George Stephenson (9 June 1781-12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

Karl von Terzaghi (2 October 1883-25 October 1963) was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".

Air conditioning can be achieved using a mechanical air conditioner or through other methods, such as passive cooling and ventilative cooling.

A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are pressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings.

An elevator (North American English, Philippine English) or lift (Commonwealth English except Canada) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.

A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.

It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizontal.

A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or payment is otherwise made.

A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled load-bearing vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles at the rear.

A safety pin is a variation of the regular pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp.

A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale.

A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills).

Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantities, such as temperature, pressure, mass, and mechanical or electrical changes in a substance as moisture is absorbed.

The device may be electronic, mechanical, or a combination of the two (electromechanical).

In contrast to the still camera, which captures a single image at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images by way of an intermittent mechanism or by electronic means; each image is a frame of film or video.

It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder.

Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the early 20th century, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards.

The Eclipse windmill was one of the more successful designs of windmill used to pump water in the nineteenth century United States.

The Biblio-Mat is a random antiquarian book vending machine located at The Monkey's Paw bookstore in Toronto, Canada designed by visual artist Craig Small.

Machining is a form of subtractive manufacturing, which utilizes machine tools, in contrast to additive manufacturing (e.g. 3D printing), which uses controlled addition of material.

A steamroller (or steam roller) is a form of road roller, a type of heavy construction machinery used for leveling surfaces, such as roads or airfields, that is powered by a steam engine.

FoldiMate, Inc. was a California-based company developing a robotic laundry-folding machine founded in 2012.

SolaWash is an automated and mobile hand washing machine powered by solar panels.

A wheel is a rotating component (typically circular in shape) intended to turn on an axle bearing.

The water organ or hydraulic organ (Greek: ὕδραυλις = ὕδωρ + αυλός / αυλη) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.

A horse mill (or in the UK commonly called a horse-gin - short for "engine") is a mill, sometimes used in conjunction with a watermill or windmill, that uses a horse engine as the power source.

Dating to the second half of the 3rd century AD, the sawmill is considered the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod to form a crank-slider mechanism.

The polybolos was not a crossbow since it used a torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles.

An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and major planets.

Before the invention and adoption of the Fourdrinier machine and other types of paper machine that use an endless belt, all paper in a paper mill was made by hand, one sheet at a time, by specialized laborers.

Produced by a partnership of three companies, ALCO (American Locomotive Company) built the chassis and running gear, General Electric the generator, motors and controls, and Ingersoll Rand the diesel engine.

The Sharopoyezd (Russian: Шаропоезд; literally "ball-bearing train"), also known as ShELT (Russian: ШЭЛТ, acronym for шаро-электро-лотковый транспорт, "ball-bearing electric trough transport") was a Soviet attempt to develop a high-speed rail system in the 1930s.

When McKeen Company of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., first unveiled the car in 1905, the McKeen was among the first engines with a distillate-fueled motor.

The railmotors of J. Weitzer Engine- & Waggon-Building & Iron Casting Joint-stock Company (Hu.: Weitzer János Gép,- Waggongyár és Vasöntöde Részvénytársaság) were Europe's first self-propelled railcars with internal combustion engine built in considerable numbers.

A gas turbine is a complete continuous-flow internal combustion engine in which air is compressed, fuel is burned in the compressed air, and the resulting hot gas expands through a turbine.

A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed.

A clutch is a mechanical device that allows an output shaft to be disconnected from a rotating input shaft.

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

A printing press is a machine that applies pressure to transfer ink onto a surface made of paper, cloth, or a similar material.

A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans.

A large digital version of a stopwatch designed for viewing at a distance, as in a sports stadium, is called a stop clock.

An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time.

The height of the cut grass may be fixed by the mower's design but generally is adjustable by the operator, typically by a single master lever or by a mechanism on each of the machine's wheels.

A vernier scale ( VUR-nee-ər), named after Pierre Vernier, is a visual aid to take an accurate measurement reading between two graduation markings on a linear scale by using mechanical interpolation, which increases resolution and reduces measurement uncertainty by using vernier acuity.

A clothes dryer (tumble dryer, drying machine, drying device, or simply dryer) is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles, usually after they are washed in the washing machine.

A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine (chiefly Alaskan), motor sled (chiefly Canadian), ski-doo (Ontario and Quebec, dated proprietary eponym), motor sledge, skimobile, snow scooter, or simply a sled is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.

An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time.

A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen.

A tachometer (revolution-counter, tach, rev-counter, RPM gauge) is an instrument measuring the rotation speed of a shaft or disk, as in a motor or other machine.

Power steering is a system for reducing a driver's effort to turn a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, by using a power source to assist steering.