Depending where in the world you work, you are likely following one of two standards International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) National...

American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children and received little formal schooling...

Often document control is dictated by project requirements, for example a particular organisation may have an existing numbering system. Existing company...

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These lifts were first built in 1884 by J. E. Hall and called a paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) due to its...

Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets. A new technology created by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon ...

Collection of links to various places with useful motor information. I’ll try and return to the page every now and again to update it with any motor notes...

I received this question by email a few weeks. First thoughts was that it is a product of the mathematics of rotating a straight conductor in a magnetic...

This is the second post in a series of two on periodic electrical inspections. In the first post, I discussed how often inspections should be carried out...

The following tables provide quick order of magnitude fault levels for a a range of typical low voltage situations.