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This tool measures the lengths or dimensions of an object or hole most commonly seen with vernier, dial, or digital mechanisms.
What is a caliper?
This type of force opposes motion and is caused by two surfaces rubbing against each other.
What is friction?
This important period began in the 1700s and transformed most manufacturing in the western world.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This ship struck an iceberg in 1912 and sunk due to design flaws like insufficient lifeboats and weak rivets.
What is the Titanic?
This is something that Todd can't stand to see students on while he's trying to teach a class.
What is a phone?
This machine shapes material by spinning a workpiece against a cutting tool.
What is a lathe?
A material that returns to its original shape after being deformed is said to be high in this.
What is elasticity?
Credited with inventing the moving assembly line, this famous industrialist paved the way for manufacturing large numbers of vehicles.
Who is Henry Ford?
In 1986, this NASA shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after launch due to failure of its o-ring seals in cold weather.
What is the Challenger?
What is the phrase "Clear as mud?"
This engineering material known for its strength and resistance to rust, is made by adding chromium to steel.
What is stainless steel?
This is the name of the physical law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This bridge, completed in 1883, was the first steel-wire suspension bridge and connected two New York City boroughs.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
The 1970 explosion on this spacecraft was caused by a ruptured oxygen tank, immortalized by the phrase "Houston, we have a problem."
What is Apollo 13?
From 1993-1998, Todd worked as a Senior Designer at this company?
Who is Alcoa?
When welding, this gas is commonly used in TIG welding as a shielding gas.
What is argon?
This law of fluid dynamics states that the pressure of a fluid decreases as its velocity increases, assuming incompressibility and no friction.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
This 18th-century Scottish inventor is credited with making critical improvements to the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
This failure led to the destruction of the Hindenburg in 1937.
What is a hydrogen gas explosion?
This is Todd's favorite food.
What are mushrooms?
The surface finish of a part is often measured using this unit, denoting the average height of surface irregularities.
What is microns?
What is the finite element method (FEM)?
Before modern computer-aided manufacturing, early CNC machines relied on this now-obsolete role.
What is a punch tape operator?
This car model, produced by Ford in the 1970s, became infamous for its poorly placed fuel tank, which caused fires in rear-end collisions.
What is the Ford Pinto?
This is Todd's favorite flower.
What is a sunflower?