Technical Papers

Can a gadget get too small? In the world of micro-electronics and the trend towards miniaturization, I don’t think we can put the Genie back ...

Tribo-Charging, Who Really Discovered Electricity? The relationship between static electricity and particle attraction has been long known. The Ancient Greeks when polishing their jade and ...

FM Not Just For Radio Who doesn’t like FM when it comes to listening to the radio? In the world of music, FM stands for ...

  Making a Beeline for the shore The term “As the Crow Flies” has been found in print since as early as 1758.  The term ...

Most Clean Room experts and consultants cringe at the thought of having turbulence inside of a clean room or clean space even though it is ...

A thought provoking quote “Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours”? Gordon Lightfoot The real ...

How many ways can you call someone crazy?   “What are you nuts, kooky, mad, silly, wacky, ape, psycho, bonkers, cracked, delirious, berserk, daft, demented or ...

Big Bang…Again? According to the astrophysicists, the Big Bang that expanded and stretched the universe can’t happen again because the universe is still expanding. Will ...

To understand the technology-driven, high speed, book manufacturing process of today, we first have to explore the history of book manufacturing through the ages. According ...

The Van de Graaff generator was invented in 1929 by American physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff. That\’s a great fact, but why did he ...

I received a call back in 1985 from a guy in South Dakota looking to buy an ion for his brother. I told him that you ...

In a manufacturing environment, complete sterilization is more important than you might think. A cleanroom is a controlled environment where products are manufactured, typically found ...

“I can’t get the static out of my hair!” Ladies, you know what we’re talking about. Those of you with long hair (and gentlemen, too) ...

For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume that the world is made up of only two materials, conductors and insulators. Conductors tend to be mostly ...