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Maria Kettle
outreach-officer

Engineering Links

• Encyclopedias, Engineering Sites etc

  • `Engines of Our Ingenuity' site, a searchable site of over 1700 articles about Engineering topics.
  • howstuffoworks - very informative descriptions of how a wide range of things work
  • young engineers
  • Enginuity - explaining what engineers do and make and giving information on careers in engineering

   

• Engineering in Cambridge

  • Cambridge University Engineering Department
  • Nanotechnology for Schools
  • Marshalls Aerospace
  • ARM
  • Cambridge Consultants
  • Generics Group
  • Pi Group

   

Other Selected Engineering Topics

• Canals

  • Brief History of the Suez Canal
  • The Basingstoke Canal
  • The Basingstoke Canal
  • London Canal Museum
  • The Falkirk Wheel
  • British Waterways

• Wind Power Engineering

  • British Wind Energy Association
  • Scoraig Wind Electric
  • Norfolk Wind Turbines
  • Centre for Alternative Technology
  • National Wind Power

• Journey into Space

  • UK National Space Centre
  • Nasa
  • UK Space Industry
  • British National Space Centre

• Grandmothers to Gigabytes

  • How a Hard Disc Work
  • How a Floppy Disc Work

• Flight

  • How Airplanes work

• Wobbly Bridges

  • Ove Arup (The Designers of the Millennium Bridge)
  • Research on the Millennium Bridge at Cambridge
  • Millennium Bridge - Work @ Cambridge

• Cars

  • How car engines work
  • How car gears work
  • How fuel injection systems work
  • Animated Engines