Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1096

The Coffee Break Engineering Trivia Quiz – No.1096 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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Intrinsic safety is a protection technique for safe operation of electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres and under irregular operating conditions - True or False

An electrical device that changes direct current to alternating current is called...

What name is given to a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is typically poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify...

Sir Charles Parsons is associated with what power source...

Nicknamed Galloping Gertie - what is the name of the suspension bridge opened in 1940 which became famous four months later for a dramatic wind-induced structural collapse...

In fluid dynamics - Bernoulli's Principle can be derived directly from the measurement of a fluids Turbidity - True or False

What name is given to the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat...

What is the name of the the process in which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact...

In Roman Numerals, "L" equals what number...

A Ballistic vest is more commonly called a...