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July 28, 2004Engineering Web Offers Specialized Information
Catalogs, application notes, patents, product announcements, and a whole bunch of other stuff is available for search at GlobalSpec's Engineering Web ( http://www.globalspec.com ), a search engine for engineers. Most of the real estate on the front page is devoted...
Continue reading "Engineering Web Offers Specialized Information" » October 02, 2002Digital Bridges
Lehigh University has launched Digital Bridges at http://bridges.lib.lehig h.edu/index.html . Digital Bridges is a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. You can either browse or search...
September 30, 2002Housing In Earthquake Zones
Wondering about the kinds of houses are built in earthquake zones? The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) encyclopedia, at http://www.world-housing.net/ , describes the types of housing used in several different countries which are susceptible to earthquakes. To use this site...
January 02, 2002Castell Pridd Museum Of Power
The online site of the Castell Pridd Museum Of Power, at http://www.semidiesel.com/, has several online databases of interest to those who like engines. You can access the databases by choosing the "Databases" link from the left navigation. There's the list...
November 21, 2001Materials Database and Search Engine Covers Over 20,000 Items
MatWeb ( http://www.matweb.com/ ) is a database covering over 20,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. You can search by keyword or do a limited amount of browsing. I searched for "plastic" and got the maximum 200 results (if...
Continue reading "Materials Database and Search Engine Covers Over 20,000 Items" » February 20, 2001Guide to Engineering Sights Covers Almost 250 Sites
The National Society of Professional Engineers has launched A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering at http://www.engineeringsights.org . This site contains almost 250 engineering "sights to see" like the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and -- um -- the Original American...
Continue reading "Guide to Engineering Sights Covers Almost 250 Sites" » April 04, 2000UL Offers Free Databases of Products and Firms
Underwriters Laboratories, the folks behind those ubiquitous "UL" tags on your appliances, have launched a database of UL Certified products and the companies that produce them at http://www.ul.com/database/index.htm .. You can search by company name, "Category Control Number" (CCN), or...
Continue reading "UL Offers Free Databases of Products and Firms" » January 28, 2000Dr. EEVL an engineer?
Online engineering information resource EEVL announced today that it has become the WWW Virtual Library for Engineering. They also announced the addition of the 5,000th site to its searchable subject index of engineering and a site redesign. You can check...
January 21, 2000Mechanical engineering resources
Suddenly it's all about mechanical engineering resources. http://www.icrank.com/ offers free Web space and a search engine for mechanical engineering resources, plus links to vendors and discussion forums. It'd be interesting to hear from a mechanical engineer or engineering librarian whether...
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