Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1140
The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1140 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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A Geissler tube is an early gas discharge tube used to demonstrate the principles of electrical glow discharge - True or False
A Desiccant is a hygroscopic substance that induces a state of dryness in its local vicinity in a sealed container. - True or False
What common name is given to a series of connected links...
An internal combustion engine typically uses a four stroke combustion cycle - this is also called an Otto Cycle - True or False
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In Electrical Engineering - A voltage divider is a resistor circuit which turns a small voltage into a larger one – True or False
A voltage divider is a resistor circuit which turns a large voltage into a smaller one
In Engineering - A Deep-Dive is a team effort to work together on what…
A "Feed Screw" is a type of clamp which is typically used to hold a round object such as drill bit in a power tool - True or False
a Feed screw is a screw which imparts feed motion such as in a lathe - A "Chuck" is typically used to hold round objects
In the study of the mechanical properties of materials - a sample having identical values of a property in all directions. is called...