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Have you applied your deductive reasoning and technical prowess to troubleshoot and solve an engineering mystery that even the fictional Sherlock would find most perplexing? Tell us about it in 600 words and we'll pay you $100 if we publish your case.
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The Instance of the Recalcitrant Religious Instrument

Divine Intervention or a clever engineer at work? You decide. By Ken Herrick, Contributing Writer Fifty years ago and more I was a Collins Radio Co. field engineer at a former Kamikaze base turned U.S. Navy base in Japan. One day the base Chaplain, rather improbably, called upon me. His Hammond organ was repeatedly failing to turn on; could I help? So I went to the chapel and took a... More

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The Adventure of the Ghostly Images

Engineers wrestle with a cranky CRT-based imager and a prospective customer is getting antsy By Charles Glorioso, Contributing Writer A Los Angeles-area company I worked for was using an innovative and patented technique to “burn” images on 35mm slide film one pixel at a time when the original IBM PC was announced, and the owners saw an opportunity to greatly reduce the cost... More

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The Adventure of the Arcless Painting

While investigating how to avoid blowing up paint rooms, an engineer finds an easy solution by studying a plot of results taped to his wall By Radcliffe Cutshaw, Contributing Writer In the early eighties, I was working for a consulting firm doing RF design when I got an assignment to see how a non-arcing electrostatic spray painting system could be built. The contract was with a company... More

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The Case of the Gummy Gears

A failure in a military gear pump underscores why two soft materials should never be rubbed against one another Ken Russell, Contributing Writer Human society uses a variety of pumps. These include reciprocating pumps that raise water and oil from underground, rotary-vane coolant pumps used for automobile engines and gear pumps shown schematically in the figure, above... More

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The Adventure of the Suicidal IC's

With ICs jumping off boards and more ready to make a break for it, an engineer helps out a competitor By Bob Cowell, Contributing Writer Around 1982, the new hotshot Silicon Valley company was Silicon Graphics (SGI), rumored to have a killer computer graphics demo. I was still at Carnegie-Mellon University as a grad student, but was working part-time at Three Rivers Computer, an... More
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