All the hullabaloo about touchscreen voting machines and the lack of a paper trail got Joyce Dewsbury wondering about the old mechanical lever voting machines. How did they record votes, and was there ...

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There are few habits in Connecticut more enduring than its love affair with the 19th-century, lever voting machine. Despite technological leaps that make mechanical voting booths feel like museum ...

There is no other type of watch that requires as much interaction from its owner as the chronograph. There is, furthermore, a certain pleasure that comes from interacting with a finely-made mechanical ...

Mechanical redundancy within a biomechanical system (e.g., many-to-one mapping) allows morphologically divergent organisms to maintain equivalent mechanical outputs. However, most organisms depend on ...

A return to common sense: The systems knowledge and versatility of mechanical engineers make them more suited than programmers and EEs when it comes to practical interface design. 1. The shifter in a ...