Cranes playing ...

... create a World Sensation: the 3000t lift. LIEBHERR cranes make a mobile with ca.3000t on the hook, and a total weight of about 5000 t Open Days at the 13th 14/06/2012. Click here for the video!

Guess who won?

Caterpillar eyes huge growth in China

Caterpillar's engineering machinery products on display at an exhibition in Beijing. The company plans to double the number of its employees in China by 2015. Click here for the text!

Only the smartest people win millions!

The qualified teams

Extraordinary innovations in technology and science are the goal of the X PRIZE Foundation. The X PRIZE Foundation was founded in 1995 and has since then announced prizes which are privately sponsored and conducted competitions in various disciplines with the goal to inspire companies to go new ways and to further develop research and know-how. Among others the X PRIZE Foundation is looking for the world's most fuel-efficient car. And that means: the car must not consume more than 2.3 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres and be suitable for everyday use. Click here for more information!

The daily dose of heavy equipment

The new "Heavy Equipment Calendar" of Bauforum24 is now available. André Brockschmidt, the Managing Director of Bauform24, and his team have impressively portrayed heavy equipment for the third time. More than 2,800 tons of steel and concentrated power of over 40,000 hp. So every month of this year will be a visual enjoyment for fans of heavy equipment.
Click here for the official trailer!

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Merry christmas!

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!

Google Patents Transition To Autonomous Driving For Cars

Google has just been granted a patent that describes a possible switch from a car that is driven by a human to an autonomous driving mode. The patent was written by a group of engineers that includes the winners of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

We have heard quite a bit about Google’s autonomous cars driving around in California. A patent approved by the USPTO yesterday provides more detail on these cars and the technology they may use. The patent #8,078,349, filed on May 11 of this year, specifically refers to the event when a mixed-mode car is enabled to transition from a human driver to an autonomous mode.

source:
http://www.conceivablytech.com/9983/products/google-patents-transition-to-autonomous-driving-for-cars

Educational television light!

Physicists, biologists and other scientists watch up: Another comfortable TV night: The US American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" is a real insider's tip.



For more information visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory

On 18 August 1896 Gottlieb Daimler ...

... proudly presented the first truck worldwide.

After his studies of Mechanical Engineering the son of a master baker got to know the designer Wilhelm Maybach in his first job in a mechanical engineering company. This lifelong friendship and cooperation not only resulted in the first benzene-driven combustion engine, the first motorbike (1885), the first engine-driven carriage (1886) or engines for boats, locomotives and airships (1887/1888) but also in the company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft founded in 1890.

Finally on 18 August 1896 his group presented the first motorised truck of the world, the "Phönix".



A two-cylinder engine with a cylinder capacity of 1.06 litres achieved a power of 4 PS and a maximum speed of 16 km/h. In the open and on iron wheels the driver could go for about 200 kilometers. On 1 October 1896 Daimler-Motorengesellschaft delivered the first truck to London.

Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

Who was trained ...

... to become a gunsmith before constructing the first truck?