This electronic analogue of the push–button switcher allows a short press on one of the control buttons S1–S3 to turn on the selected load Rload1-Rload 3, simultaneously disabling other loads. Unlike ...

The Power-Pole is a hydro-mechanical arm that raises and lowers at the touch of a button to anchor a small boat automatically in depths up to 10 feet.Frank Sargeant  John Oliverio, inventor ...

I am trying to design a little circuit to control a light. It is supposed to be a one-push-button affair, with a long push for something and a short push for something else. One crucial thing is, that ...

Those systems — with the arrow-shaped push button that’s positioned on poles about waist high — are called Accessible Pedestrian Signals. Other buttons are typically circular or cone shaped.

Ford has unveiled prototype technologies designed to take eliminate parking headaches and increase safety. Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering division utilised developments made with Active Park ...

Common push puppet toys in the shapes of animals and popular figures can move or collapse with the push of a button at the bottom of the toys' base. Now, a team of engineers has created a new ...

Button pusher removal: The breakup. Removal of the person who we think is responsible for pushing our buttons. We might feel better about this at first because now our buttons are not being pushed.

Other assignments included work on push-button radios for cars and a forerunner of the DVD. His wife of 34 years, Blanche Wiley Polley, died in 1976. A daughter, Joan Polley, died in 2008.

Next time you're at the lights, stop to appreciate the humble pedestrian button. The design is so beautiful that even Oscar Wilde would approve, says Dr Karl. In 1884, the playwright and world ...

Charley Douglass was the first guy who could make anyone laugh at the push of a button. The sound engineer invented the laff box and the laugh-track technique, which was quickly adopted by ...