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- A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...78 KB (9,729 words) - 13:43, 13 May 2024
- A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern...66 KB (9,348 words) - 19:58, 22 April 2024
- Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth largest...55 KB (6,844 words) - 05:00, 15 May 2024
- Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint-striking ignition mechanism, the first of which appeared in Western Europe in the early 16th...30 KB (4,265 words) - 17:46, 8 May 2024
- The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所, Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho, Fukushima number 1 nuclear power plant) is a disabled...50 KB (4,560 words) - 23:34, 31 March 2024
- Unit testing, a.k.a. component or module testing, is a form of software testing by which isolated source code is tested to validate expected behavior....31 KB (3,838 words) - 10:26, 4 May 2024
- Technological convergence is the tendency for technologies that were originally unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they develop...68 KB (8,119 words) - 23:19, 6 January 2024
- The SG 550 is an assault rifle manufactured by SIG Sauer AG (formerly a division of Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft, now known as SIG Holding AG)...54 KB (4,758 words) - 12:25, 14 May 2024
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) consists of a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through...27 KB (3,162 words) - 16:39, 28 January 2024
- Picasa Web Albums (PWA) was an image hosting and sharing web service from Google, often compared to Flickr and similar sites. The service links with Google's...7 KB (922 words) - 01:00, 3 January 2023
- ZFS (previously: Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating...102 KB (9,912 words) - 16:45, 30 April 2024
- Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements...32 KB (4,180 words) - 18:52, 14 May 2024
- A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system for buildings that use a type of heat pump to transfer heat to or from...49 KB (5,835 words) - 03:12, 26 March 2024
- VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers...28 KB (2,920 words) - 21:31, 3 May 2024
- In software testing, test automation is the use of software separate from the software being tested to control the execution of tests and the comparison...26 KB (3,598 words) - 17:16, 14 May 2024