On The Beach This powerful fiction doomsday novel is set in Australia in the aftermath of the nuclear disasters in the northern hemisphere. Someone, somewhere, started World War III. The last survivors of humanity helplessly await the atomic rain and dust headed their way. This is the poison th...

Canada is not exactly known for having produced several ground-breaking inventions or discoveries in her time. However, the period of rapid technological advancement that she incurred during the third period of the history of engineering in Canada brought with it several important engineering inv...

October Sky The movie "October Sky" is set in the 1950's in the dieing cola mining town of Coalwood, during the beginning of the space race. The town is experiencing big economic changes during a time of nation wide turmoil. The space race inspires a boy named Homer Hickam to purs...

Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff Tobias Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father is Arthur Saunders and he is an aeronautical engineer. His mother is Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff. He married a clinical social worker named Catherine Dolores Spohn in 1975. The couple had tw...

Man's dream of flying has been apparent almost as long as mankind himself. However, the concept of an aircraft has only been around for approximately two hundred years. Before this time, man tried to fulfill this dream by mimicking the birds. They first built machines called ornithopters to u...

Wright Brothers Part 1 The Wright Brothers invention of the airplane greatly assisted in the growth of our country due to the fact that it opened many doors for the improvement of transportation. Wilbur and Orville Wright, also know as the Wright Brothers, were born into a family of seven...

A Strong Background in Computer Technology Will Benefit Future Engineers Computer technology has advanced dramatically over the past ten years. Technology has advanced from computers the size of a room that can only perform one particular task, to personal computers (PC's) that wil...

Technology has advanced from computers the size of a room that can only perform one particular task, to personal computers (PC's) that will fit on a desk and perform multiple tasks. Understanding computers and their programs and being able to apply that knowledge is very important in today&apos...

William E. Boeing: Aviation Pioneer William Edward Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 1, 1881. He was the son of a wealthy timber merchant. Boeing dropped out of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1903 before finishing his engineering degree and moved to Gray's Harbor, Washin...

The History Of Planes Have you ever wondered who was the first person to make a flying machine? It was not the Wright brother. If you want to know just keep reading more about the history of the planes and how it evolved. The Reason Planes Fly Whenever I see a plane the first questi...