#electrical engineer

[elektrostantsiya]

Arabelle - GE steam turbine for nuclear power plants ☢️🏭⚡

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[scotianostra]

The Scottish engineer James Blyth died on May 15th 1906 in Glasgow.

Us Scots have always been innovators, wind turbines are popping up all over but when Kincardineshire man James Blyth invented a turbine to light his holiday home in Marykirk and offered to light the village street it was the work of the devil.

James Blythe was described as “a true man of science…one who by insight, patient toil, and mechanical ingenuity did much in his day to explain and illustrate many of the facts of physical science."

Born in April 1839 in Marykirk, Kincardineshire, Blyth was educated at the local Parish school and Montrose Academy before winning a scholarship to the General Assembly Normal School in Edinburgh. After obtaining a BA from the University of Edinburgh, he taught mathematics at Morrison’s academy in Crieff.

After obtaining his MA in 1871, Blyth was appointed Freeland Professor of Natural Philosophy at Anderson’s College in 1880 (now the University of Strathclyde), where he began a research program on the use of wind power for electricity generation and storage. This research culminated in the installation of a cloth-sailed, horizontal wind turbine (as opposed to the now more common vertical wind turbine) at his Marykirk holiday cottage in July 1887.

This was several months before the American Charles F. Brush installed what many mistakenly believe to be the first wind turbine, though Brush’s was considerably larger and included the useful safety feature of an automatic brake to prevent damage in high winds. Blyth’s design was 33 ft in diameter and stored the electricity generated in ‘accumulators’, otherwise known as batteries.

After a lack of success offering his surplus electricity to local villagers, who branded electricity 'the work of the devil’, Blyth was able to install a larger, much-improved version of his wind turbine at the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary, where it ran successfully for 30 years.

In 1891 Blyth presented a paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh espousing his belief in the benefits of renewable energy sources, particularly wind but also wave energy.

Blyth received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow in 1900 and died in 1906. After the turbine at Montrose Asylum was dismantled in 1914, there would not be another public utility wind turbine in Britain until 1951. However, his legacy today is an important one, as his old college, the University of Strathclyde, conducts world-leading research into wind turbine technology and Scotland seeks to become a world leader in wind energy generation.

So that’s another first for Scotland, the wind turbine.

[stone-cold-groove]

An engineer.

[higherentity]

[r4ndom45]

Matlab this, matlab that, just give me a fucking break 😭

[angelkarafilli]

Willoughby Smith

In 1873 English electrical engineer Willoughby Smith discovered that the electrical resistance of selenium varies dramatically with the amount of light falling on it. The photoconductivity of selenium eventually provided a method for converting images into electrical signals—the basis for photoelectric cells and a theoretical basis for television. 

[antvnger]

17. fairy lights or LED lights?

Uhhhhh I don’t know. Like what? On a Christmas tree? In the room? In a blanket fort?

I think it depends on the context, because both are a good choice. Sometimes one is better than the other.

I’m an electrical engineer; I don’t really have a preference when I see the benefits of both.

Soft asks

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Title/Name: Nikola Tesla, (1856–1943). Bio: Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Country: The Austrian Empire, now Croatia. Wojak Series: Feels Guy (Variant) Image by: Wojak Gallery Admin Main Tag: Tesla Wojak

[elektrostantsiya]

Gas turbine appreciation post

[hamburgerbox]

Nikola Tesla

[stone-cold-groove]

We need engineers.

[lightning-storm-studies]

No-stress summer learning challenge 🌞: day 43

03.08.2023

It's been quite a long time since the last update, but I haven't abandoned this challenge, I'm learning as planned. I just didn't have time to make an update. I've finished the design of an unstabilised power supply (which is a part of this course). The second photo shows a PIR motion sensor, that will be used for a cat fountain, so that the pump only starts running, when one of my cats walks nearby.

📖 Janusz A. Zajdel - Limes Inferior

🎧 thea wang - garden song (i prefer a loon)

[shreekant-patil]

𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Shreekant Patil, a veteran expert in robotic welding and a government advisor, joins the BIS committee to enhance India’s standards in electric welding equipment.

[sirtbhopal]

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