In development
Working mechanisms, manufacturing processes and machines: from an astrolabe and cable robot to a hydrofoil and a CNC mill.
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This Suite is still in development. These are implemented experiments, not a released product.
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Engineering
Set the amplitudes and phases of four tidal constituents on the cranks of a Kelvin-style machine and watch one wire add their motions into the tide curve on the paper drum. Compare slotted yokes with plain cranks, push an amplitude past the slide's stroke, and run the machine for a year to see its gear trains drift from the true speeds.
Engineering
Take a sight from a rolling ship: move the index arm and its drum until the star or the Sun's lower limb touches the sea horizon, then reduce the reading for index error, dip and refraction. Swing the arc to find the lowest point of the image's path, and see what a tilted frame and an uncorrected sight cost.
Engineering
Watch a 35 mm projector's intermittent movement in slow motion: the Geneva cross pulls each frame into the gate and holds it still while the shutter opens. Turn the shutter out of phase and the picture smears, change the frame rate, and thread the loops too short to see them snap taut and tear.
Engineering
Send Morse code down a telegraph line and watch it arrive: the line charges section by section, the register's armature is pulled across its gap and the stylus presses dots and dashes into the paper tape. Lengthen the line, lay it as a cable, change the spring and the sending speed, and see when the marks smear and when they stop.
Engineering
Send a capsule through the pneumatic tube of an office building: the blower's air pushes it along the floor, up the riser and through the diverter to station B or C. Change the capsule's mass and the blower's pressure, drill a hole in the riser, and switch off the air cushion to hear it strike the end.
Engineering
Two hulls roll in the same beam sea; one carries a spinning flywheel in a gimbal. Let it precess against the roll, set its brake and its speed, and compare the rolls; then send a heavy sea and drive the gimbal into its stops.
Some modules belong to more than one Suite. Shared experiments have one description here.