Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage drop. Which isn’t to say that with some effort we ...

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

There’s a surreal serenity atop the world’s longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, crowned by a thick blanket of fog more than 500 feet above the rippling tides off Yerba Buena ...

The Mackinac Bridge briefly shut down for on Monday, Dec. 15, for what police called a "traffic incident." The Michigan State Police post in St. Ignace confirmed by phone on Tuesday morning that the ...

Maryland transportation officials approved a plan Thursday to rebuild the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, tear down existing bridge spans and ease traffic. State leaders estimate the project could range from ...

Maryland transit officials say they have a plan to build a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge, tear down existing bridge spans and ease traffic. After years of weighing the options, the Maryland Transportation ...

Maryland transportation officials on Tuesday unveiled their recommendation to replace the aging Chesapeake Bay Bridge with two new four-lane spans, saying the plan would ease chronic congestion, ...

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, ...