A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons and zippers.[1] In U.S. English, haberdasher is another term for a men’s outfitter.
A haberdasher’s shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery.
Obsolete meanings of the term “haberdasher” refer to a “dealer in, or maker of, hats and caps”.
The word [...]
Hipot is an abbreviation for high potential. Traditionally, Hipot is a term given to a class of electrical safety testing instruments used to verify electrical insulation in finished appliances, cables or other wired assemblies, printed circuit boards, electric motors, and transformers.
Under normal conditions, any electrical device will produce a minimal amount of leakage current due [...]
MAKE Magazine’s Patti Schiendelman recently sat down with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of the totally awesome show Mythbusters for a two part interview. These two are quite intelligent, and are doing a great service to the citizens of the world by bringing the scientific method into their homes and making everyday people excited about [...]
In mathematics, a Golomb ruler, named for Solomon W. Golomb and discovered independently by Sidon and Babcock, is a set of marks at integer positions along an imaginary ruler such that no two pairs of marks are the same distance apart. The number of marks on the ruler is its order, and the largest distance [...]
A truly classic factory tour of yesteryear. This tour of a Crayola factor was featured on Sesame Street in the 70’s. Better not show this to your modern-day children, as we all know that old episodes are “intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
A warm-fuzzy, friendly non-disclosure agreement (NDA), whipped up by Rands of RandsInRepose.com:
WHEREAS I possess a bright idea that I am choosing to disclose to you, The Advisor, with the mutual understanding that you are my friend and that you will not screw me.
Manners of screwing include, but are not limited to:
1. Adapting [...]
The Seattle Underground is a network of underground passageways and basements in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States that was ground level at the city’s origin in the mid-1800s. After the streets were elevated, these spaces eventually fell into disuse, but have become a tourist attraction in recent decades.
Seattle’s first buildings were wooden. In 1889, a [...]
Ancient university is a term used to describe the medieval and renaissance universities of England, Scotland and Ireland that have continued to exist.
The ancient universities in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland are, in order of formation:
University of Oxford – founded before 1167
University of Cambridge – founded 1209
University of St Andrews – founded 1413 (incorporating [...]
I overheard two nerds in the computer lab talking about a recent contest to generate the first N terms of this function in the shortest time possible.
The EKG sequence is the integer sequence having 1 as its first term, 2 as its second, and with each succeeding term being the smallest number not already used [...]
The Brownian ratchet is a thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine conceived by Richard Feynman in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962 as an illustration of the laws of thermodynamics. The simple machine, consisting of a paddlewheel and a ratchet, appears to be an example of [...]