The Truth About Cars
MARCH 26, 2024
A few weeks ago, venerable car-enthusiast magazine/Web site Road & Track created a mini-controversy with the deletion of an article from the Internet. Had he let it stand, however begrudgingly, he wouldn't be answering questions about the magazine's ethics. Sometimes it's better to leave things alone.
Cars That Think
JUNE 9, 2022
Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. He and his older brother repaired farm equipment and cars there, and they built their own chicken-plucking machine to automate the process. “We about 32 kilometers away. members’ careers.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 3, 2021
of Chicago. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. The GE lights were still out of reach for the average consumer, but prices quickly dropped as competitors entered the market. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. Each 8-bulb set cost only $5, with a wholesale price of $3.50.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 7, 2022
He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. In 1977 Tredennick joined Motorola in Chicago as a senior design engineer in the integrated circuits division. He then was named chair of its board of trustees and held that position for three years.
Cars That Think
MAY 14, 2023
meters tall and on exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In volume 17 of Make magazine (2009), the steampunk enthusiast known as Jake von Slatt described how to build a Wimshurst machine. Most fit easily on a tabletop, such as this one preserved at the Science Museum London, which measures 56 by 67 by 30.5
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2013
Elements of these solution sets were introduced by SMART in a 2006 article entitled “ New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation ,” in the Bridge Magazine of the National Academy of Engineers. The five themes are: Systems integration. The accessibility paradigm. The world is urbanizing.
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