Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1131
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1131 is a challenging selection of General Engineering Trivia questions and answers - sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, but you’re sure that you did know or that you should know and when you see the answers you know that once upon a time you probably did know !
Challenge your colleagues – can they answer more than you ?
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The Spinning Jenny is the name was given to a multi-spool spinning wheel which was invented about 1764 by James Hargreaves in England . The device significantly reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn , with a single worker able to work eight or more spools at once – True or False
Resonance is the effect of vacuum on a sealed vessel - True or False
Resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with greater amplitude at various frequencies
A Theodolite is a precision instrument which is used by surveyors to measure angles in the horizontal and vertical planes – True or False
A semiconductor is a device designed to neutralize lighting strikes created by violent thunderstorms - True or False
It is a material which has electrical conductivity between a conductor and an insulator
The oldest national Engineering Society in the United States is the American Society of Civil Engineers - founded in 1852 – True or False
Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. - True or False
In fluid dynamics, a vortex is a region within a fluid where the flow is mostly a reciprocal motion about an imaginary axis - True or False
it is where the flow is mostly a spinning motion about an imaginary axis