December 2003

feature articles

back to motor school
Build a bunch of different motor styles in identical frames for comparison's sake and get ready for hands-on learning.

the noise that annoys
A bearing maker develops a tool to design the racket out of products with electric motors.

how does your fluid flow?
Thirty years ago, CFD was academic; now doctors and engineers wonder how they lived without it.

harnessing the void
How the Industrial Revolution began in a vacuum—or, a pull is as good as a push.

coal cell
The gasifier will supply the fuel, and an electrochemical reaction will generate the power.

more gasoline from crude
A watch on the telltale signs of imminent flooding aims to protect a refinery column.

input/output
Beam Us the Figurine, Mr. Scott



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