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64 relations: A. C. Gilbert Company, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Analog computer, Anchor Stone Blocks, Auckland, Automatic transmission, Bagger 288, California, Charles Babbage, Computer History Museum, Connecticut, Construction set, Construx, Council of National Defense, Crane (machine), Difference engine, Differential analyser, Differential equation, Douglas Hartree, Drawbridge, Ferris wheel, Ferris Wheel, Gear, General Electric, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., Girder and Panel building sets, Grahamstown, Ironworker, Jack Kevorkian, James May, K'Nex, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lego, Lever, Lincoln Logs, Linkage (mechanical), Liverpool, Maurice Wilkes, Märklin, Meccano, Merkur (toy), Mountain View, California, Museum of Transport and Technology, New Haven, Connecticut, Proof of concept, Pulley, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Science Museum, London, Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Spin Master, ..., St. Augustine, Florida, Steam engine, Steam shovel, Steel Tec, Swing bridge, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Tinkertoy, Torque, Transmission line, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Cambridge, Victoria University of Manchester, Wheel, World's Columbian Exposition. Expand index (14 more) »
A. C. Gilbert Company
The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest toy companies in the world.
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Alfred Carlton Gilbert
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 15, 1884 – January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy-maker and businessman.
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Analog computer
An analog computer or analogue computer is a form of computer that uses the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved.
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Anchor Stone Blocks
Anchor Stone Blocks (Anker-Steinbaukasten) are components of stone construction sets made in Rudolstadt, Germany, marketed as a construction toy.
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Auckland
Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.
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Automatic transmission
An automatic transmission, also called auto, self-shifting transmission, n-speed automatic (where n is its number of forward gear ratios), or AT, is a type of motor vehicle transmission that can automatically change gear ratios as the vehicle moves, freeing the driver from having to shift gears manually.
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Bagger 288
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, US.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Construction set
A construction set is a set of standardized pieces that allow for the construction of a variety of different models.
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Construx
Construx is a brand of plastic building toys introduced by Fisher-Price in 1983.
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Council of National Defense
The Council of National Defense was a United States organization formed during World War I to coordinate resources and industry in support of the war effort, including the coordination of transportation, industrial and farm production, financial support for the war, and public morale.
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Crane (machine)
A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally.
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Difference engine
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
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Differential analyser
The differential analyser is a mechanical analogue computer designed to solve differential equations by integration, using wheel-and-disc mechanisms to perform the integration.
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Differential equation
A differential equation is a mathematical equation that relates some function with its derivatives.
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Douglas Hartree
Douglas Rayner Hartree PhD, FRS (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.
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Drawbridge
A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of movable bridge typically associated with the entrance of a castle and a number of towers, surrounded by a moat.
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Ferris wheel
A Ferris wheel (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.
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Ferris Wheel
The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, was the centerpiece of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Gear
A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (February 14, 1859 – November 22, 1896) was an American engineer.
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Girder and Panel building sets
Girder and Panel Building Sets were a series of plastic toy construction kits created by Kenner Toys in the mid-1950s.
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Grahamstown
Grahamstown, never known as Makhanda (Grahamstad, iRhini) is a town of about 70,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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Ironworker
An ironworker is the American term for a tradesman who works in the ironworking industry.
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Jack Kevorkian
Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent.
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James May
James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist.
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K'Nex
K'Nex is a construction toy system invented by Joel Glickman.
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
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Lego
Lego (stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.
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Lever
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
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Lincoln Logs
A sawmill made from Lincoln Logs Lincoln Logs is a U.S. children's toy consisting of notched miniature logs, used to build small forts and buildings.
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Linkage (mechanical)
A mechanical linkage is an assembly of bodies connected to manage forces and movement.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits.
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Märklin
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Meccano
Meccano is a model construction system created in 1898 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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Merkur (toy)
Merkur refers to a metal construction set built in Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic).
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Museum of Transport and Technology
The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) is a science and technology museum located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Proof of concept
Proof of concept (PoC) is a realization of a certain method or idea in order to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle with the aim of verifying that some concept or theory has practical potential.
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Pulley
A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction of a taut cable or belt, or transfer of power between the shaft and cable or belt.
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Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not! is an American franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims.
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Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), previously Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (SMET), is a term used to group together these academic disciplines.
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Spin Master
Spin Master is a Canadian global toy and entertainment company that has been designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer products for children around the world since 1994.
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St. Augustine, Florida
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Steam shovel
A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil.
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Steel Tec
Steel Tec is a metal construction toy similar to Meccano.
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Swing bridge
A swing bridge is a movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally as shown in the animated illustration to the right.
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The Man Who Saved Christmas
The Man Who Saved Christmas is a film based on the true story about the efforts of toymaker Alfred Carlton Gilbert (portrayed by Jason Alexander) of the A. C. Gilbert Company to continue making toys during World War I. First broadcast on CBS television in 2002, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2008.
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Tinkertoy
The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a toy construction set for children.
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Torque
Torque, moment, or moment of force is rotational force.
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Transmission line
In communications and electronic engineering, a transmission line is a specialized cable or other structure designed to conduct alternating current of radio frequency, that is, currents with a frequency high enough that their wave nature must be taken into account.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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Victoria University of Manchester
The former Victoria University of Manchester, now the University of Manchester, was founded in 1851 as Owens College.
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Wheel
A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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