Engineering Innovations
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Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cheussees Paris, Ile-de-France |
Inventions credited to the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and its graduates include: prestressed concrete, lighting gas, and the optical lens. The school and its… |
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Eddystone Lighthouse , Cornwall |
An early image of the James Douglass lighthouse, with the stump of the Smeaton-designed building beside it. Eddystone Lighthouse is located in the English Channel,… |
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Eddystone Station Unit #1 Eddystone, PA |
Operated by the Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO), now known as Exelon Corp., Eddystone Station Unit #1 is a 325 MW pulverized-coal-fired plant that pushed the technology of… |
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Edgar Station, Edison Electric Illuminating Co. , MA |
The Edger station was the first steam electric plant produced that could tolerate over 1000 psi of pressure. Initially conceived by Mr. Irving Edwin Moultrop, then Assistant… |
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Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-Driver Dynamo Dearborn, MI |
This dynamo, connected directly to a high-speed steam engine, was one of six that produced direct current at Thomas A. Edison's electric power station at 257 Pearl Street in New… |
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Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph West Orange, NJ |
Edison's simple and unprecedented instrument allowed for the first time the permanent recording and reproduction of sound, especially the human voice. On December 6, 1877, Edison… |
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Eglin Air Force Base Valparaiso, FL |
Established in 1935 as the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base, the base supported the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, as its primary facility for… |
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Eiffel Drop Test Machine and Wind Tunnel Paris, |
Late in life, the renowned structural engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) embarked on aeronautical research. Reliable data and repeatable research methods were rare in the early… |
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Eiffel Tower Paris, |
The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design… |
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El Camino Real - The Royal Road Mexico City to Santa Fe, NM |
El Camino Real (literally, "the royal road") is the oldest and longest historical trail in the Western Hemisphere. The transportation link has, through the centuries, been called… |
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El Camino Real (The Royal Road) Eastern Branch San Antonio, TX |
Historically, a camino real (Royal Road) is defined as a road that connects Spanish capital with Spanish capital, a distinction not shared with roads connecting ordinary Spanish… |
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Electric Fire Alarm System Boston, MA |
On 28 April 1852 the first municipal electric fire alarm system using call boxes with automatic signaling to indicate the location of a fire was placed into operation in Boston.… |
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Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches Brevard County, FL |
The demonstrated success in space flight is the result of electronic technology developed at Cape Canaveral, the J. F. Kennedy Space Center, and other sites. A wide variety of… |
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Elephant Butte Dam Truth or Consequences, NM |
One of the first major efforts to increase farming and encourage habitation in the arid regions of the western United States, the Rio Grande Project was designed to provide… |
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Eli Whitney Armory Hamden, CT |
ASM International - The Materials Information Society - has designated the Eli Whitney Armory an historical landmark. "On this site between 1798 and 1825, Eli Whitney built the… |
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Ellicott's Stone Bucks, AL |
The stone was set by the joint U.S.-Spanish survey party on April 10, 1799. Made of sandstone, it is roughly two feet high and eight inches thick. On the north side of the… |
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Embudo, New Mexico Stream Gauging Station Embudo, NM |
A tiny village on the Rio Grande River in northern New Mexico became the training center for the first American hydrographers and provided the first stream-gauging operations of… |
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) Philadelphia, PA |
A major advance in the history of computing occurred at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 when engineers put the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) into… |
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Erie Canal , NY |
In its day, the famous Erie Canal was the world's longest canal and America's greatest engineering feat. It was the principal route for emigrants from the East and agricultural… |
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Evinrude Outboard Motor Milwaukee, WI |
This outboard motor, designed and built by Ole Evinrude (1877-1934) at the Evinrude Motor Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was quickly accepted by the boating public of the United… |
