45In meteorology, three different temperature scales are used: Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. German-born scientist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit developed the Fahrenheit Scale. He introduced his scale ...

Commercial shipping scales can cost a mint, so do-it-yourselfer arcticpenguin modified an electronic bathroom scale purchased at a thrift shop to do the job. A bathroom scale can weigh packages out of ...

Two temperature scales, centigrade and Fahrenheit, are in common use in meteorology. Most nations use the centigrade scale, but Fahrenheit remains in use in the United States. The boiling point of ...

A synchronous step-down dc-dc converter in chip-scale packaging reduces the board space required to build a 500-mA buck regulator, yet still achieves efficiencies up to 93% and a high degree of dc ...

Wave energy technology developer Oscilla Power, the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center (ASCC) and the Maine Maritime Academy successfully deployed a 1/6 scale prototype of ...

When Texas Instruments developed the TPS62601 500-mA synchronous buck converter, it had one paramount goal in mind: small size. To achieve this objective, the company upped its switching frequency to ...

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers have developed a new, highly sensitive, low-cost technique for ...