The ECE department of Cebu Institute of Technology produces ECE top notchers for years now… Rizaldo B. Fuentes is the new C.I.T. top placer for the last board exam that was held last October… Congratulations to all ECE faculty especially to the dean Mrs. Sussana Tan for the job well done… My classmate also pass the board exam Engr. Melton Romarate god has given to him his graces…. congrats to all ECE who pass the board exam especially to Technologians…. For the results link HERE
Oppositely Charged Droplets Can Repel each Other
Ever since American thinker Benjamin Franklin and French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb laid the groundwork for this theory, it has become axiomatic to say that opposite charges attract. This has been proven countless times in a wide array of experiments, and numerous industrial processes are currently based on the knowledge that two particles of the same substance, sporting opposite charges, always attract. However, a new scientific investigation puts a dent in the theory, showing that, if, for instance, droplets of a substance are too charged, then they repel each other, ScienceNow reports. The find was made by accident in 2005, by University of California in Davis (UCD) chemical engineer William Ristenpart, who was trying to study the effects of electric charges on water droplets, suspended in an oily solution.
The Digital Compact Disc
The digital compact disc, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell.
Russell was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1931. At age six, he invented a remote-control battleship, with a storage chamber for his lunch. Russell went on to earn a BA in Physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. Afterward, he went to work as a Physicist in General Electric’s nearby labs in Richland, Washington.
The dawn of the computer age begins with the invention of the analytical engine. This mechanical 19th century computer had a processing unit inventor Charles Babbage called the “mill” that could store number programs. Data was inputted using punch cards then Babbage’s computer would solve the problem and provide a printed answer.
Charles Babbage developed the analytical engine project after an earlier computing project the difference engine that Babbage started in 1822. The difference engine could solve polynomial equations using a numerical method called the “method of differences”. However, the analytical engine was the first general computational device, with the ability to solve different types of equations. The use of punch cards to record a program was inspired by the Jacquard loom, which used similar punch cards to control the pattern being woven by the loom.
Fluorescent Lamp Inventor
Many Filipinos acknowledge Agapito Flores as the inventor of the fluorescent lamp, which is the most widely used source of lighting in the world today. The fluorescent lamp reportedly got its name from Flores. Written articles about Flores said he was born in Bantayan Island in Cebu. The fluorescent lamp, however, was not invented in a particular year. It was the product of 79 years of the development of the lighting method that began with the invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas Edison.
