HOLY FAMILY NATIONAL

SCHOOL PRESENTATION
What is Engineering?

Engineering is the application of science for the benefit

of humankind; mechanical engineering deals with moving
parts, flow and heat.

Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies

engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials
science principles to design, analyse, manufacture, and
maintain mechanical systems. It is one of the oldest and
broadest of the engineering disciplines

Mechanical engineers make things work and are involved in design, testing, inspection and manufacturing.
What is an Engineer?

Engineers are professionals who,

• invent
• design
• analyse
• build
• and test

machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill

objectives and requirements while considering the limitations
imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
Early humans in the Palaeolithic era (15,000 to 750,000 years ago) discovered
that heavy, round objects could more easily be moved by rolling them than
bulky, irregular ones. The realisation was made that some heavy objects could
be transported if a round object such as a fallen tree was placed underneath
and the heavy object rolled over it. However, historians suggest the wheel did
not materialise for thousands of years until a potter’s wheel was used in
Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) in 3500 BC.
The oldest wooden wheel discovered so far was found in Slovenia and is
believed to date back to about 3200 BC. It was about the same time that the
wheel was first used for transportation on chariots. With a need for greater
speed and manoeuvrability, the Egyptians created the spoked wheel around
2000 BC, while Celtic chariots a millennium later employed iron rims for
greater strength. However, the wheel remained largely unimproved until the
19th Century when Robert William Thompson invented the pneumatic tyre, a
rubber wheel using compressed air which paved the way for automobile and
bicycle tyres.
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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse, (c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was a
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor,
and astronomer.

A large part of Archimedes' work in engineering

arose from fulfilling the needs of his home city of
Syracuse.

King Hiero II commissioned Archimedes to design a

huge ship, the Syracusia, which could be used for
luxury travel, carrying supplies, and as a naval
warship.
The Syracusia is said to have been the largest ship built in classical
antiquity(8th Century BC – 5th Century AD). It was capable of carrying
600 people and included garden decorations, a gymnasium and a
temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite among its facilities.

Since a ship of this size would leak a considerable amount of water

through the hull, the Archimedes' screw was purportedly developed in
order to remove the bilge water. Archimedes' machine was a device
with a revolving screw-shaped blade inside a cylinder.
It was turned by hand, and could also be
used to transfer water from a low-
lying body of water into irrigation canals.

The Archimedes' screw is still in use

today for pumping liquids and granulated
solids such as coal and grain.
The world's first seagoing steamship with a screw propeller was
the SS Archimedes, which was launched in 1839 and named in
honor of Archimedes and his work on the screw.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) is best known as the artist
who created the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper," but
he was also a self-taught engineer. This open-minded,
inquisitive, boundless, practical dreamer was driven to
learn and had a restless mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci & his “FLYING MACHINE”
MODERN DAY ENGINEERING

The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the gorge

valley of the Tarn near Millau in southern France.
As of November 2018, it is the tallest bridge in the world, having a
structural height of 336.4 metres (1,104 ft).

The bridge has been consistently ranked as one of the great

engineering achievements of all time!!!
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 Lego
 Mechano
 Puzzles
 Interest in how things
worked
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