Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for ...

Over on his YouTube channel [Ryan Inis] has a video about how electrostatic motors are breaking all the rules. He explains that these days most motors are electromagnetic but suggests that may be ...

My greatest disappointment—the tech I covered in a Technologue column that I most fervently hoped for that never happened—is the Bose electromagnetic suspension, first demonstrated on a leaping Lexus ...

Germany’s Munich IAA international auto show has become six halls filled with CES/SAE-Show tech stuff with some automaker displays thrown in for good measure. Here’s a roundup of techie tidbits that ...

This schematic shows a 12-MW, 9,500-rpm induction motor with oil-film bearings that drives an oil-pipeline pump. Like other high-speed machines, it has a specialty rotor, reinforced bearing housing, ...