Engineering
Brains can take you only so far. That's when brawn comes into play (and we're not talking just about Wernher von Braun, either). In today wonderful world of whizzing widgets and killer apps, sometimes we neglect to give the hardware its full due.
Nominations
Consider nominating any of the following candidates under the Engineering category. Highlighted candidates have already been nominated. To view the nominees, place your cursor anywhere over the text of the nominee and click (pop-ups must be enabled on your browser):
Mariner's Astrolabe (1295: Ramon Llull?)
Telescope (1608: Hans Lippershey)
Galilean Telescope (1609)
Cassegrain Telescope (1672 N. Cassegrain)
Spectrohelioscope (Pierre Jules César Janssen)
Greenwich Mean Time (1884)
Coronograph (1930: Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (1897-1952))
Radio Astronomy (1930s)
Mount Palomar 200” Mirror (1948)
Pioneer Spacecraft (1958-1978)
Weather Satellites (1960:Tiros 1)
Communications Satellites (1962: Telstar)
Ring Laser Gyroscope (1963)
Atomic Time (1972)
Skylab (1973)
Viking Mars Landers (1975-1976)
Mir (1976)
Voyager Probes (1977)
Space Shuttle (1981)
Hubble Telescope (1990)
International Space Station (1998)
Do you have a favorite image or imaginative leap that you wish to nominate? If so, please submit your nomination under one of the eight categories on the left to the following e-mail link no later than March 31, 2009: