British engineers

E. R. Hutchins and P. M. Unterweiser, FailureMnaljsis The British Engine TechnicalKeports, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, Ohio 1981. 

The volume of a body does not completely define the amount of material which it contains, and therefore it is usual to define a third basic quantity, the amount of matter in the body, that is its mass M. Thus the density of the material, its mass per unit volume, has the dimensions ML 3. However, in the British Engineering System (Section 1.2.4) force F is used as the third fundamental and mass then becomes a derived dimension. 

Convert I poise to British Engineering units and SI units. 

Where, for convenience, other than SI units have been used on figures or diagrams, the scales are also given in SI units, or the appropriate conversion factors are given in the text. The answers to some examples are given in British engineering units as well as SI, to help illustrate the significance of the values. 

Equations 12.7.20 to 12.7.23 may be used to evaluate the parameter h. We begin by converting the convective heat transfer coefficient hC9 determined in Illustration 12.6, to British Engineering Units. 

We now have numerical values for all of the quantities appearing in equation 12.7.19. However, consistent units must be employed and, because of the 0.173 factor appearing in the radiation term, British Engineering Units are appropriate. The various terms in this equation may be evaluated as follows ... 

Limelights were a lighting system invented by the British engineer Captain Thomas Drummond in 1816 to use for surveying purposes. These novel lighting systems... 

British engineer Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98) and others perfect an efficient technique to produce steel. This strong combination of iron and carbon... 

British engineer Francis Thomas Bacon demonstrates the first practical fuel cell. 

Environmental Protection Agency policy is to express all measurements in SI units. When implementing this practice will result in undue costs or lack of clarity, conversion factors are provided for the non-SI units. This report uses British Engineering units of measure for some cases. For conversion to the SI system, use the following conversions ... 

Fuel cell (Bacon) The first practical fuel cell developed by British engineer... 

The I.M.M. Series and British Engineering Standards Association Series—The I.M.M. Series was developed in 1907 by the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of England. This series is mainly for laboratory use, and was developed on the theory that the diameter of the wire... 

Table 13—The British Engineering Standards Association and I.M.M. Sieve...

The I.M.M. Series has been superseded by the British Engineering. Standards Association Series (1932). This sieve series is also shown in Table 13. It will be noted that the openings follow closely those of the Tyler series, the differences being due to the desire of specifying British Standard Wire diameters. 

The first practical locomotive, a steam-driven behemoth designed in 1829 by the British engineer George Stephenson, managed to huff along with a full load of passengers at a speed of 24 miles per hour. Not bad for its time. 

British engineering foot second slug pound weight Btu(ft)(lbf) °R, °F ... 

The Reynolds number is undoubtedly the most famous dimensionless parameter in fluid mechanics. It is named in honour of Osborne Reynolds, a British engineer who first demonstrated in 1883 that a dimensionless variable can be used as a criterion to distinguish the flow patterns of a fluid either being laminar or turbulent. Typically, a Reynolds number is given as follows ... 

British engineer Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield invented the CAT scanner as soon as it was practical to do so. Beginning in the late 1960s he conceived demonstration conceptual laboratory models that took hours to acquire and analyze data for a single low-resolution slice. Hounsfield was assisted in implementing his ideas by radiologists James Ambrose and... 

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