The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

In the UK and in US mechanical engineering, this is called moment of force shortened usually to moment.

Birmingham was ranked 12th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise with 16 percent of the university's research regarded as ' world-leading ' and a further 41 percent as ' internationally excellent ', with particular strengths in the fields of music, physics, biosciences, computer science, mechanical engineering, political science, international relations and law.

The first mechanical sweeping machine was invented by Smart in 1803 but was resisted in the UK and the US.

Both in the UK and Ireland, however, mechanical signalling is still relatively common away from the busiest lines ; there is also a considerable amount in the former East Germany.

The potential for such devices was part of the mandate of a major UK study led by mechanical engineering professor Dame Ann Dowling.

Coia can occasionally be seen on the shopping channel QVC in the UK, where he mainly sells mechanical and electronic / audio-visual products.

In part to resolve this and related questions about the dangers of industrial accidents and popular fears of runaway events equivalent to Chernobyl and Bhopal disasters, and the more remote issue of ecophagy, grey goo and green goo ( various potential disasters arising from runaway replicators, which could be built using mechanosynthesis ) the UK Royal Society and UK Royal Academy of Engineering in 2003 commissioned a study to deal with these issues and larger social and ecological implications, led by mechanical engineering professor Ann Dowling.

This is now the largest mechanical action organ in the UK.

By the later 1950s the small Standards were losing out in the UK market to more modern competitor designs, and the Triumph name was believed to be more marketable ; hence the 1959 replacement for the Eight, Ten and Pennant was badged as the Triumph Herald ; with substantial mechanical components carried over from the small Standards.

She became a researcher at University College of Wales in Cardiff in 1984, before joining Shell Chemicals, initially as a site mechanical engineer, moving internally in 1988 as the Head of UK Supply and Distribution, and after 1990 was head of environmental strategy until leaving Shell in 1992.

In individual subject areas, the 2013 Times Good University Guide ranked the university third in the UK and first in Scotland for chemical engineering, and second in Scotland for building, mechanical engineering, food science and civil engineering.

* The IMC Group, a UK company specialising in electronic and mechanical instrumentation for use in various types of measurement and control

In the UK " JCB " is often used colloquially as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators and now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, although it is still held as a trademark.

In the UK, mechanical prepayment meters used to be common in rented accommodation.

Design engineer is a general term that covers multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical, industrial design and civil engineering, architectural engineers in the U. S. and building engineers in the UK.

* March 7: Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway ( UK ) 1923 – 1937 ( born 1868 ).

A mechanical pencil ( U. S. English ) or a propelling pencil ( UK English ) is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a lead ().

Lada's first attempt at a modern car came with the Samara hatchback in 1984 ( launched in the UK in November 1987 ), which made use of a completely new mechanical design.

However, recent research into the UK " corkscrew " seal deaths by the Sea Mammal Research Unit concluded that the UK seal deaths were unlikely to have been caused by predation from the Greenland shark, rather being caused by blunt mechanical trauma " consistent with the seals being drawn through a ducted propeller " that are found on

Loughnan St Lawrence Pendred was a UK mechanical engineer and editor of The Engineer, a weekly newspaper for engineers, from 1906 to 1946.

In 1965 as part of the H200 promotion in the UK, the subsidiary Honeywell Controls Limited commissioned the artist Rowland Emett to construct a whimsical mechanical sculpture called The Honeywell Forget-me-not Computer as part of the company's exhibit at the Business Equipment Exhibition.

Apparently his work remained largely unknown to engineers in the UK and US until much later, although at least IBM was aware of it as it financed his post-war startup company in 1946 in return for an option on Zuse's patents.

A team of US / UK construction engineers, led by Huw Thomas, is currently planning ways to save the building and the tomb.

In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers ( CEng ), while in some areas of Canada, such as Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer ( P. Eng ) designation and / or the Information Systems Professional ( I. S. P.

To become a full member of CIBSE, and so also to be registered by the Engineering Council UK as a chartered engineer, engineers must also attain an Honours Degree and a Masters Degree in a relevant engineering subject.

The Formula Fast Karting centre, a kart racing circuit itself designed by former Formula One race engineers, was established in 2009 as a leisure facility for the public, as well as offering training and technical support to drivers competing in karting across the UK.

Many trade occupations in the UK are loosely called engineers ; some examples-an aircraft riveter may be called an aeronautical engineer, an automotive car mechanic may be called an automobile engineer or a TV satellite dish installer may be called a satellite engineer, plumbers are heating engineers.

Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.

In the UK, most structural engineers in the building industry are members of the Institution of Structural Engineers rather than the Institution of Civil Engineers.

A 2010 survey of professionals occupying jobs in the construction industry showed that structural engineers in the UK earn an average wage of £ 35, 009.

Certain regions also represent higher average salaries, with structural engineers in the Middle East in all sectors, and of every level of experience, earning £ 45, 083, compared to UK and EU countries where the average is £ 35, 164.

He set up the Sainsbury Management Fellowship scheme in 1987 to develop UK engineers into leaders in industry.

UK engineering technologists have always been designated as " engineers ".

Prior to the title Incorporated Engineer UK technologists where known as " technician engineers ".

The term " professional engineer " has no legal meaning in the UK and there are no restrictions on practice, in fact anyone in the UK can call themselves an " Engineer " or professional engineer without any qualifications or proven competencies, and most UK skilled trades are referred to as " professional " or " accredited " engineers.

They do not need to support engineers because they are acknowledged as full Engineers in the UK but not in Canada or the USA.

In 1991 the Vickers Hardness Machinery business was bought by the then field engineers, and continues today as UK Calibrations Limited based in Kidderminster.

Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects and engineers although this is not the case in the UK where Building Control Surveyors act as verifiers both in the public and private sector ( Approved Inspectors ), but are also used for various purposes by safety inspectors, environmental scientists, real estate developers, contractors and subcontractors, manufacturers of building products and materials, insurance companies, facility managers, tenants, and others.

In 1930 the General Post Office ( GPO ), later British Telecom ( BT ), had built its main telephone engineers ' college on the corner of Forrest Road and Westbourne Road where engineers from all over the UK attended basic and advanced residential courses lasting up to eight weeks.

Olver also chairs the Academy ’ s Development Advisory Board which is committed to raising the recognition of the contribution engineering and engineers make to the health and wealth of UK society.