Grant’s difference engine was invented in 1876 by George Grant. It was a calculating machine and was invented as a way to ...

Museums are being viewed through a new lens — that of taste and gastronomy — on International Museum Day, celebrated on May ...

Heating mantles are critical tools in laboratories where controlled thermal processing of chemicals and solvents is a routine requirement. Unlike conventional hot plates or open flames, mantles offer ...

The benefits of laboratory automation do not come without considerable effort and patience in setting up the systems. Nathan Blow talks with two groups at different stages on the road to automation.

The water-holding and strength characteristics of unsaturated expansive soil and modified soil in a high-fill canal embankment along the central line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project were ...

Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors, University of Georgia, 305 Sanford Dr., Athens, Georgia 30602, United States ...

Soil texture was estimated using a hydrometer test after drying in an oven at 105°C for 24 hr, and field capacity and permanent wilting point were evaluated using a pressure plate apparatus. A 5 cm × ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Cultured monolayers of bovine aortic endothelial cells are placed in a cone-plate apparatus that produces a uniform fluid shear stress on replicate samples. Subconfluent endothelial cultures ...

[London] (Paternoster Row) : Longman & Rees, 2 May 1802.