Category Inventions and Machines

Have you ever wondered what an old-timey mechanical calculator does when you try to perform the inexecutable equation?April 05, 2016We all know that dividing by zero is impossible, but have you ever wondered what an old-timey mechanical calculator does when you try to perform the inexecutable equation.

Failure is what teaches us about how things work, and it enables us to do better and greater things. While failure can be beneficial, some past inventions failed in pretty spectacularly ways, like causing people& 39;s jaws to fall off. Check out our list of 9 of the most interesting failed inventions of the past.

The M60 Armored Vehicle Land Bridge (AVLB) is a modified M60 Patton battle tank equipped with a 19 meter (60-foot) retractable bridge.It is an incredible piece of military hardware and one that needs to be seen in action to be believed.The AVLB was introduced in 1987 as a combat engineering vehicle to quickly deploy a bridge on the field in under 2 minutes.

In honor of one of the world& 39;s best inventors, here are some of Nikola Tesla& 39;s greatest achievements and inventions.July 10, 2017Nikola Tesla is perhaps one of the greatest scientists and American inventors that have ever lived. His experiments were far beyond his time, which left much of his work underappreciated until after he passed away.