The recording and reproduction of audio underwent sweeping changes throughout the late 19th and 20th Centuries, offering many different new storage mediums, playback systems and methodologies that enabled humans to control the sound wave like never before.
Conventional warm-air hand dryers never seem to do a great job of actually drying your hands. That’s because they simply blow out a low-power stream of warm air that slowly evaporates the water from your hands.
Electrically powered drills (commonly referred to as power drills) work by turning electrical energy into mechanical energy in order to rotate a piercing drill bit. This energy transfer is achieved by sourcing electricity from an AC power supply and feeding it into an electric motor, which then converts the energy by electromagnetic induction -voltage production …
Light is a complicated thing. It can behave like a wave or a particle. Most theories in physics talk about it behaving like a wave, when it travels fast splits into the colours of the rainbow and combines again to make white, and creates beams (think of the sunbeams you see through a window). Light …
Made possible by design breakthroughs in the Twenties and Thirties, the electric kettle makes tea-making a piece of cake! The electric kettle works thanks to two key design breakthroughs achieved in Britain in the Twenties and Thirties.
There are two main types of fire extinguisher: those with internal stored pressure, and those where pressure is delivered through a cartridge system. The most common by far of these two is the former, with cartridge-based systems reserved mainly for industrial use. Both variants of extinguisher work in the same way though, removing one of …
When first created back in the late 19th Century, electrically powered mechanical fans were all the rage. However, due to their basic design and physical components, accidents involving their fast rotating blades soon became common, with children and adults alike injuring themselves. Luckily, today we have inventor extraordinaire Sir James Dyson
Spotify is a new application that is available for PC and Mac -along with many modern smartphones – which allows you to stream music from a vast catalogue distributed through the Spotify central hub and sourced from every other Spotify user.
Remember dial-up internet? Most of us do and it’s not so very long ago that speeds of 56K were considered fast when it came to accessing the delights of the world wide web. And while it may have been fine for checking GeoCities pages and bulletinboards, as our demands and uses of the internet became …
App development relies on the Apple and Android developer kits and a variety of third-party software to turn your idea into reality. The official developer kits come with most of the software you’ll need to make your app, including coding and simulation programs.
