Engineering Innovation

Engineering Innovation

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Engineering Innovation episodes

  • True Tractor Tracks
    Our first President is sometimes called the country?s first engineer and also had a fascination with farming. So George Washington would be proud that the first self-steering vehicle you can buy is? a tractor.
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  • Tomorrow's Tailor
    Do you have trouble finding clothes that fit well? The National Science Foundation sympathizes and is funding research toward a technology that might become the 21st century tailor.
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  • Calculating the Weather
    Predicting weather has always been tricky, especially snow. Mother Nature can fool even the best computer models. But this week, forecasting technology took a big leap forward.
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  • Getting the Drift
    Whenever we get snow, everyone wants to know: How much? Even when the snow has stopped falling, that?s not so easy to answer.
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  • Pilot Perception Problems
    Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of a deadly helicopter crash into the Potomac. While the cause may not be known for quite some time, pilot disorientation has been a common cause of such crashes in the past.
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  • The Technology of Time
    The number of time-dependent technologies is increasing all the time. So, each year, more clocks must figure out precisely when to chime in the New Year.
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