“What’s an ablatograph?”, you may ask. In this post I’ll describe a free engineering dictionary that can tell you. It’s just one more tool for engineers that you can get at no cost on the Internet.
First, an Ablatograph is “An instrument that records ablation by measuring the distance a snow or ice surface falls during the observation period.” But that’s not really the point. The point is that it’s now easy for you or me to find out what an Ablatograph is. Or an Aiguille (A slender form of drill used for boring or drilling a blasthole in rock). Or what any of 8938 other engineering terms means.
You can go to this McGraw Hill website and download an engineering dictionary for free: http://www.mhprofessional.com/getpage.php?c=engarch_dictionary_of_engineering_registration.php&cat=113
As time has passed we’ve cheered and then been overwhelmed by the availability of engineering information on Google and then Wikipedia. It seems that the next round of valuable information is coming from highly targeted sources that you can rely on as having some validity. We’ll keep searching to find and deliver these to you.
Special thanks to Rich Williams for bringing this one to my attention.
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John