If you're replacing the engine in an older car, you might turn up some that are labeled as remanufactured and others that say ...

Grant’s difference engine was invented in 1876 by George Grant. It was a calculating machine and was invented as a way to advance the current calculating machine technology. It used the latest ...

The Englishman Charles Babbage proposed such a “difference engine” in 1820, and built a small section of it. Difference engines actually were built by Georg and Edvard Scheutz in Sweden and by George ...

A British team has finally realized his designs for the five-ton, hand-cranked Difference Engine No. 2 -- and now it's arrived in Silicon Valley.

While Pontiac's option may not have lasted nearly as long, the Chevrolet 350 served both its eponymous brand, as well as ...

In the early 1800s, the English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a machine called a difference engine that would compute and print automatically a large class of tables. Although Babbage's ...

The device, called a “difference engine,” is integral to Lauren Gunderson’s play, which pays homage to Ada Byron Lovelace, one of the first computer programmers. The real-life Lovelace, a brilliant ...

Diesel and gasoline engines might look alike under the hood, but they use oil in very different ways. Gas engines run cleaner, but diesels create much more soot, crank out higher compression ...

Engine oil and transmission fluid look similar, have similar viscosity, and even perform some of the same functions, but it's important not to mix them up.