History of Mechanical Engineering

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The Genius of Get Smart’s Gadgets

Reflect on some of the top gadgets from the hilarious show Get Smart with Roger Quinn, a professor of engineering for Case Western Reserve University. Just make sure your shoe isn't ringing!

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Engineering History <br />on Display

Engineering History on Display

Curators from the MIT Museum describe the top reasons to visit, from their extensive nautical collection to viewing famed robots Cog and Kismet. Or maybe just like to see the largest slide rule collection anywhere.

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Engineering Then<br />and Now

Engineering Then and Now

Living in an age of robotic armor, autonomous farm tractors, and nuclear clocks that are accurate for over 100 million years, it is easy to think that we live in the most technologically advanced age in human history. However, it wasn’t always so.

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Basic Engineering Technical Group (BETG)

Comprised of six Divisions concerned with the application of basic engineering principles

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Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)

Energy and Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Committee on Power Boilers

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History of Mechanical Engineering dates to ancient Greece and China, where mechanisms like screw pumps, steam engines, clocks, seismometers, and even differential gears were invented. Chain drives, escarpments, crankshafts, and camshafts date to the Middle Ages. Mechanical engineering turned analytical with Newton’s Laws of Motion and the invention of calculus. By 1825, the U.S. had three schools of engineering: the U.S. Military Academy, Norwich Univ., and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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