Teaching machine
Teaching machines were originally mechanical devices. They presented educational materials and taught students. They were first invented by Sidney L. Pressey. His machine originally administered multiple-choice questions. When the machine was set so it moved on only when the student got the right answer, tests showed that learning had taken place.
Answering machine
This answering machine uses audio cassettes. An answering machine (other names are answerphone, ansaphone, ansafone and Telephone Answering Device (TAD)) is a machine.It is attached to a telephone line. If the phone is not answered after a few rings, it will play a message to the caller. The caller can then leave a message (after a sound that has become known as …
Washing machine
A front-loading washing machine. A washing machine also know as a washer is a machine that washes dirty clothes.It contains a barrel into which the clothes are placed. This barrel is filled with water, and then rotated very quickly by the use of a motor to make the water remove dirt from the clothes. The user adds detergent (liquids or powders) to clean clothes more effectively.
Simple machine
A simple machine is a device that can change the direction or the magnitude of a force, or the point where it is applied.This is done so that the force can be used to do work. All mechanical machines are made by combining simple machines.. There are six basic "simple machines", as defined by Renaissance scientists:. The lever (also called a rope or staff) can move the point …
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Blaze and the Monster Machines is an American animated kids' television series on Nickelodeon as the part of its Nick Jr. Channel block. The show centers around a monster machine named Blaze, his driver, AJ, their monster machine friends, and enemies racing in Axel City with the Monster Dome on the other side of it.
Electrical machine
An electrical machine is an electrical device that changes energy from one form to another, usually from mechanical energy to electrical energy or from electrical energy to mechanical energy. Types [ change | change source ]
Turing machine
Turing machine is a term from computer science. A Turing machine is a system of rules, states and transitions rather than a real machine. It was first described in 1936 by English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. There are two purposes for a Turing machine: deciding formal languages and solving mathematical functions. Turing ...
Machine learning
Machine learning gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed (Arthur , 1959). [1] [2] It is a subfield of computer science.[3]The idea came from work in artificial intelligence. [4] Machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms which can learn and make predictions on data. [5] Such algorithms follow programmed instructions, but …
Bean machine
The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are dropped from the top, and bounce left and right as they hit the pins. Eventually, they are collected into one-ball-wide bins at the bottom.
Sewing machine
A vintage Singer sewing machine. A sewing machine is used to stitch fabric together with thread.Sewing machines were an invention of the industrial revolution that made it possible to sew faster than people could sew by hand. Some sewing machines are also used for embroidery.Since the invention of the first working sewing machine, generally considered to …
Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine is a website that allows users to save URLs of websites into it and view different versions of those websites and how they looked like in the past. It is a time machine of the internet.
Vending machine
A vending machine is an automatic machine that sells food or drink or other items. [1]An automated teller machine is a kind of vending machine, as are arcade games and bulk vending machines for toys or prizes, or anything that sells a physical item, service, or fun in exchange for money. Vending machine foods Archived at the Wayback Machine include …
Molecular machine
A molecular machine, or nanomachine, is any set of molecules which produce mechanical movements (output) in response to specific stimuli (input). The term is common in nanotechnology where a number of complex molecular machines …
Stack machine
In computer science, a stack machine is a model of computation in which the computer's memory takes the form of one or more stacks This short article about technology can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it .
Drum machine
Drum machine is an electronic musical instrument made to imitate the sound of percussion instruments. Drum machines are commonly used in electronic music genres, but also used in other genres. This short article about music can be made longer.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine, sometimes known as RATM or Rage, is a rock band from Los Angeles, California.Rage Against the Machine are known for mixing funk, hip-hop, metal and rock music.They are also known for their left-wing political opinions. The band members have been the same since they started in 1991.
Virtual machine
A virtual machine is a program on a computer that works like a separate computer inside the main computer. The program that controls virtual machines is called a hypervisor, and the computer that is running the virtual machine is called the host.The hypervisor controls how the virtual machine can access memory, hard drive space, and other resources on the host …
War Machine
Cosplayer as War Machine. War Machine (James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes) is a superhero.He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, who donned the Iron Man armor after Tony Stark couldn't or didn't want to, and later became a armored superhero. He was created by John Byrne, David Michelinie, and Bob Layton, and first appeared in Iron Man #118 …
Church–Turing thesis
The Church-Turing thesis (also known as Church's thesis, Church's conjecture and Turing's thesis) is a statement about computers.It says that a very simple kind of computer now named a "Turing machine" is able to compute all computable functions. The Church-Turing thesis is linked to Gödel's incompleteness theorems.When a programming language is able to do what a …
Crane (machine)
A tower crane with a pivoted main boom. A crane is a lifting machine that has hoists, wire ropes and sheaves on it. It can be used both to raise and lower things or to move them left and right. Cranes are often used in the construction industry (building houses or buildings) and in creating or moving heavy things.
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) is a machine that lets people take or deposit money that they have. It can also be used by someone to see how much money they have, or see and do other things with their bank account.In the United Kingdom, ATMs are often called cash machines, cashpoints or the hole in the wall. [1]ATMs may be found in stores and shopping …
Tabulating machine
The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.Herman Hollerith's tabulator consisted of electrically-operated components that captured and processed census data by "reading" holes …
Machine | Definition, Mechanisms & Efficiency | Britannica
grinding machine. reamer. lathe. drill press. boring machine. machine tool, any stationary power-driven machine that is used to shape or form parts made of metal or other materials. The shaping is accomplished in four general ways: …
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI or A.I.) is a computer program or a machine that is able to learn and mimic human cognition. [1] [2] Sometimes, AI is used to talk about neural networks or deep learning.Artificial intelligence is a system's ability to understand external data, to learn from that data, and to use what it has learned to achieve specific goals or tasks through adaptation.
Java virtual machine
A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a set of computer software programs and data structures which use a virtual machine model for the execution of other computer programs and scripts.The model used by a JVM accepts a form of computer intermediate language commonly referred to as Java bytecode.. Java virtual machines operate on Java bytecode, which is normally (but not …
Knitting machine
You can help Wikipedia by finding good sources, and adding them. (December 2011) Knitting machine creating a circular knitted tube. Knitting machines are used to make knitted cloth for clothing or items. They can make flat …
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Abbi Jacobson as Katie Mitchell, an aspiring filmmaker who is the daughter of Rick and Linda, and 's older sister. [3]Danny McBride as Rick Mitchell, the nature-obsessed and technophobic father of Katie and , and Linda's husband.; Maya Rudolph as Linda Mitchell, the mother of Katie and , and Rick's wife.; Mike Rianda as Mitchell, the dinosaur-loving son of …