Cherry Hill with her scale model of the 1931 Aveling & Porter road roller, which she built between 1966 and 1969 Cherry Hill, who has died aged 93, was one of the world’s foremost scale model ...

Christian Ruoff, writing in Charged, tells us that the most likely explanation has to do with historical factors. By many accounts, the reason Tesla started developing an induction motor in the first ...

As a child, [Mike Chrisp] saw a film featuring one of the great narrow gauge English locomotives. While the story was inordinately heartening, as soon as he walked out of the theatre, [Mike] said to ...

A trestle bridge at Costa Mesa’s Fairview Park, beloved by model train enthusiasts — and hundreds of thousands of children and adults who’ve ridden the miniature rails there — after 30 years is in ...

Today’s electronic systems are an increasingly complex combination of hardware and software components. They contain an ever-expanding range of functions, require more computing power, have to operate ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated system. Using model-based systems engineering (MBSE) as a framework to ...