Archive for May, 2004

Knee bone connected to the … artificial bone

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

Engineers are busy trying to figure out ways to make artificial bone more like real bone.

Engineering is music to your ears

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

Trumpets and horns were simply long tubes until around 1815, when two musicians used engineering to increase the instruments’ range of notes.

How does the cookie crumble?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

Engineers know how the cookie crumbles. They’ve fine-tuned the way cookies are baked so that customers can enjoy whole, uncracked cookies.

Be cool

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Mechanical engineer Willis Carrier invented air conditioning as we know it in 1902.