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Manna

Manna, sometimes spelled mana, is the name of a food which, according to the Pentateuch of the Bible, the Israelites ate while they were traveling 40 years in the desert after leaving Egypt, which God provided because they had nothing to eat. Eve ...

Mediterranean diet

The Mediterranean diet is a way of eating. The Mediterranean diet is not only food. It is also the skills and traditions people use to make it, for example farming, fishing, and cooking. It is also the traditions and culture about food and meals. ...

Mombar

Mombar, known as sheep fawaregh is a delicious dish brought in the Arab countries, it is made from sheep intestines stuffed with a rice mixture and deep fried in oil. Mombar preparation takes some time and is considered a creamy dish.

Nata de coco

Nata de coco is a chewy, translucent, jelly-like food produced by the fermentation of coconut water, which gels through the production of microbial cellulose by Acetobacter xylinum. Originating in the Philippines, nata de coco is most commonly sw ...

Pastry

Pastry is the dough from which some baked products are made. Pastry dough is rolled out thinly and used as a base for baked products. It is made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and/or eggs. Common p ...

Peixinhos da horta

Peixinhos da horta is a Portuguse dish. Its name in Portuguese means "little fishes from the garden", as it looks like small pieces of colourful fish. It was brought to Japan by Portuguese sailors in the 16th century, where it became tempura.

Satay

Satay is a local food of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It is usually made of meat on a stick with onion and gravy along with it The dish was invented by Javanese street vendors.o

Stuffed peppers

Stuffed peppers is one of the traditional cooked dishes of Libyan cuisine. It is made of green peppers stuffed with minced meat, parsley, cheese and onions.

Tofu

Tofu, sometimes also called doufu or bean curd, is a food made from soybeans. In fact, it is a very complex process. Tofu is made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. The making of tofu from soy milk is simi ...

Vomitoxin

Vomitoxin is a group name for many natural poisons made by fungi from the genus Fusarium. These fungi grow on grains, such as wheat, rice, barley, and corn. The vomitoxin can stay in the grain. Things made out of the grain, such as flour, beer, o ...

Accelerometer

An accelerometer is a device used to measure proper acceleration, which is the acceleration it experiences in relation to freefall, and is the acceleration felt by people and objects. Accelerometers are commonly made up of piezoelectric, piezores ...

Actuator

Linear actuators are actuators that move in a straight line. They can be made to move by electricity, or by pushing water or air very hard. When water or oil or another liquid is used, it is called hydraulic, and when air is used, it is called pn ...

Alternator

An alternator is a generator which converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. There is one in every car. Most alternators use a rotating magnetic field with a stationary armature. The armature reacts to th ...

Answering machine

An answering machine) is a machine. It is attached to a telephone line. If the phone is not answered after a few rings, it will play a message to the caller. The caller can then leave a message. It is different form voicemail which is based in th ...

Appliance

An appliance is a machine that only has limited functionality. A prosthesis is an example. Many appliances need electricity to work. A Fire appliance is the name of a fire engine the firefighters use to extinguish a fire Household appliances can ...

Archimedes screw

Archimedes screw is a machine. It is a type of pump used for raising water up. It is a screw inside a fairly tight-fitting cylinder. With the bottom end in water, the screw lifts water up to the top, where it pours out of a spout. The screw can b ...

Axle

An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. In some cases the axle may be fixed in position with a bearing or bushing sitting inside the hole in the wheel or gear to allow the wheel or gear to rotate around the axle. In other cases t ...

Barcode reader

A Barcode reader or Barcode scanner is an electronic device which is able to scan and decode barcodes. These devices use optical technology such as infrared light. Some readers use an integrated decoder, others have one unit for reading the barco ...

Beam balance

A beam balance is a device used to measure mass. An object is put into a disk on one side that hangs from one end of a bar. It is balanced with weights at the other end. It has a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm.

Boulton & Watt

Boulton & Watt was an early British engineering and manufacturing firm. They were very significant in the early industrial revolution. The partners were the English manufacturer Matthew Boulton and the Scottish engineer James Watt. The firm desig ...

Bucket-wheel excavator

Bucket-wheel excavators are huge machines used for surface mining. They are continuous digging machines in large-scale open cast mining operations. What sets BWEs apart from other large-scale mining equipment is their large wheel with a continuou ...

Bulldozer

Bulldozers are crawling machines which have blades. These machines are used for pushing large amounts of dirt or rubble during demolition or construction. They have claw-like devices in the rear to loosen materials which are densely compacted. Bu ...

Cash register

A cash register, or till, is a machine that holds money. Cash registers are usually found in shops and restaurants. They are used to calculate how much a customer has to pay for something, such as a good or service. The drawer of the cash registe ...

Catalytic converter

A catalytic converter is a device in the exhaust pipe of a car, near its engine. It is used to clean up the exhaust the car sends out into the atmosphere. It works by using a catalyst material, usually made of Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium. Th ...

Clockwork radio

A clockwork radio is a device that uses the energy of a spring to generate electricity to power the radio. The spring receives its energy by someone winding it up.

Cloud chamber

A cloud chamber is a sealed box with a supersaturated vapour of water or alcohol. When a charged particle goes through it, the vapour is ionized. The resulting ions act as nuclei, around which a mist forms from the vapour. The high energies of al ...

Combustor

A combustor is a part or area of a gas turbine, ramjet, or scramjet engine where combustion takes place. It is also known as a burner, combustion chamber or flame holder. In a gas turbine engine, the combustor or combustion chamber is fed high pr ...

Cryogenics

In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. It is not well defined at what point on the temperature scale refrigeration ends and cryogenics begins. A gas may be cryogenic if it can be liquefied at ...

Driveshaft

A driveshaft, drive shaft, driving shaft, propeller shaft, or Cardan shaft is a part of a machine that takes power from the engine or motor to a place where useful work can be done. Most engines or motors create power as torque by making somethin ...

DVD player

A DVD player is a home media device that plays DVDs. The first DVD player was created by Sony and Pacific Digital Company and released in Japan on November 1, 1996. The DVD player would later be released in the United States on March 19, 1997.

Electrical machine

An electrical machine is an electrical device that changes energy from one form to another, usually from mechanical energy to electrical energy or from electrical energy to mechanical energy.

Electrocardiogram

An electrocardiogram is a record of the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time. The instrument that makes the record is the ECG machine or Electrocardiograph. Willem Einthoven invented it. It works by attaching electrodes to the o ...

Engine

An engine, or motor, is a machine used to change energy into movement that can be used. The energy can be in any form. Common forms of energy used in engines are electricity, chemical or heat. When a chemical is used to produce energy it is known ...

Fan

What fans are A device used for cooling themselves down when they feel hot, especially: 1. A machine using an electric motor to rotate vanes in order to move air for cooling. 2. A tool whose shape is usually long triangle or semicircle is made of ...

Fire pump

A fire pump is part of a fire fighting system. It brings water from water sources such as groundwater or static water. It supplies the water to a sprinkler system to extinguish fire with high water pressure. The pump is run by a motor.

Galvanometer

A galvanometer is a type of ammeter. It is an instrument for detecting and measuring electric current. It is an analog electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing ...

Gyroscope

A gyroscope is a device used to measure or maintain an angular position. It works using the principles of angular momentum. The gyroscope is made up of a spinning wheel or disc, as well as many other moving parts. It helps with navigation, and pl ...

Inclined plane

An inclined plane is a simple machine. It allows one to use less force to move an object. Examples of inclined planes are ramps, sloping roads and hills, plows, chisels, hatchets, carpenters planes, and wedges. The typical example of an inclined ...

Inverter

An inverter is an electric apparatus that changes direct current to alternating current. It is not the same thing as an alternator, which converts mechanical energy into alternating current. Direct current is created by devices such as batteries ...

Jacquard loom

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom. It is used to make patterns in clothing material. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, and first used in 1801. It simplified the process of making textiles with complex patterns.

Knitting machine

Knitting machines are used to make knitted cloth for clothing or household items. They can make flat shapes or tubular shapes. The tubular shapes can be used for t-shirts.

Laser

A laser is a machine that makes an amplified, single-colour source of light. It uses special gases or crystals to make the light with only a single color. The gases are energized to make them emit light. Then mirrors are used to amplify the light ...

Laser pointer

A laser pointer is a small device that shines a low-powered laser light. The pointer is usually powered by a battery. It contains a laser diode that emits a very narrow laser beam of visible light. When pointed at an object, it shines a small bri ...

Lathe

A lathe is a type of machine used to shape things. Various kinds of work such as woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, spin welding and glassworking use lathes. A lathe works by turning an object on an axis and applying a tool to shape it. M ...

Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker, which is also called a loud-speaker or speaker, is an item that is used to create the sound in radios, television sets, and electric musical instrument amplifier systems.

Machinist

A machinist is a person who uses tools to make or modify parts. A machinist can cut metal, plastic, wood, or other materials. Examples of machinists include electricians and carpenters. A machinist may be a man backstage in a theatre who operates ...

Maser

A maser is a device that produces light and heat by using atoms to release energy. It was invented by Charles Hard Townes in the 1950s. A maser takes the small vibrations in atoms and amplifies them to release electromagnetic radiation. Originall ...

Mechanically powered torch

A mechanically powered torch is a torch that is powered by mechanical movement, such as winding a spring and using the stored energy to power it for a small amount of time. It has the advantage of not needing batteries to operate.

Mini-bar

A mini-bar is a small refrigerator in a hotel room with drinks in it. They are usually found in expensive and sometimes mid-range hotel rooms and may have things like soft drinks, wine and beer. The hotel usually charges to use it, and prices are ...

Molecular machine

A molecular machine, or nanomachine, is any set of molecules which produce mechanical movements in response to specific stimuli. The term is common in nanotechnology where a number of complex molecular machines have been proposed which might be a ...

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Van de Graaff Generator

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Native American flute

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Dynamite

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