A preliminary investigation into this Tuesday's fatal bus crash in Tongaat shows the vehicle’s brakes may have failed. Three women were killed after the 30-seater plunged off the Tongaat River Bridge, ...

A team from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has uncovered a long-lost secret passageway from the time of the Great Northern War. The Galärvegen, or ‘Galley Road’, was a strip of ...

On Sept. 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first “hoist machine,” or elevator, featuring an automatic safety brake he had patented. His seemingly simple invention was designed to stop a platform ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Carlyle died a few years before the world's first car hit the road, but the old Scotsman could have been talking to backyard mechanics who ...

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In Part 1, we discussed theory involved in building and using an A-Frame Gantry. In this article, we will build one to practice with. At the risk of sounding like we're concocting a recipe, we are ...

Power-off brakes, sometimes called safety, spring-set, or failsafe brakes, are widely used on the backs of motors to hold machines, pulleys, Z axes, and robotic arms in position in case of a power ...

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