The Real Inventor of the Eiffel Tower | Engineering
In celebration of the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower (article in german).
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Black Rain | Satellite Artwork
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Supersonic Jet | Engineering
Aerion designed a supersonic business jet to fly executives at twice the speed of today’s aircraft, while offering economy of operation comparable to conventional long-range business jets. The aircraft incorporates supersonic natural laminar flow technology that should substantially reduce drag at supersonic as well as high-subsonic cruise speeds. Moreover, the jet is designed to be fuel efficient at cruise speeds just below the speed of sound. This is a key difference from other proposed supersonic designs that are optimized mainly for supersonic flight. Let's see, when we will enter such a plane the first time.
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Water from Air | Engineering
EWA Technologies Group was established in order to provide secured fresh water, mainly to the thirsty world population, by developing and marketing of apparatuses, devices, systems and large-scale water production plants, all based on our innovative concept and technology to supply water with high quality by extraction from air. Based on these unique and innovative technologies EWA produces various apparatuses and water production plants, with daily capacity from few tens of liters per day and up to 1,000 cubic meters.
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Evolution of Skeleton | Biology
The development of the skeleton was one of the big events in evolution. For all big animals, except squids and octopuses, it is essential to move and hold their body in position. In 1753 the french natural scientist Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon compared the skeletons of different mammals and hypothesized about the possibility of a common ancestry. Today more then 50'000 vertebrates are know of all kind and size, starting with the 30m big blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) to the 7mm small anglerfish (Photocorynus spiniceps). However, the construction materials and principles of the blueprints are always the same.
Photographs by Patrick Gries.
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Space Jet | Engineering
Astrium has unveiled a revolutionary new vehicle for space tourism. The business jet sized craft is designed to carry four passengers 100 km up into space. The business jet sized craft is designed to carry four passengers 100 km up into space giving more than three minutes of "zero G" or weightlessness.
The Astrium space jet will take off and land conventionally from a standard airport using its jet engines. Once the craft is airborne at an altitude of about 12 km, rocket engines will be ignited to give sufficient acceleration to reach 100 km. The rocket propulsion system is then shut down as the ship's inertia carries it on to over 100 km, where passengers will become one of the very few to experience zero gravity in space.
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LAMPO | Engineering
The stylish LAMPO Showcar that Protoscar SA will unveil at the next Geneva Motorshow is a full size sport cabriolet powered by 268 totally clean and silent horse power.
Two electric motors are optimized for maximizing acceleration and regenerative braking respectively, developing a constant torque of over 440 Nm from 0 to 5’000 RPM. Thanks to a lightweight Lithium-Ion battery pack with a capacity of 35kWh, a range of over 200km is possible between recharges. The extremely high energy efficiency of the whole system allows to transform over 80% of each kWh produced by the photovoltaic plant into driven kilometer.
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Reactable | Creativity & Engineering
The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language. Read more.
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