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The '''Retro-Encabulator''' is a fictional device purportedly manufactured by [[Rockwell Automation]], according to a video [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/retro.html] that has been circulating on the [[Internet]]. The video has become popular with [[engineer]]s due to its humurous use of [[technobabble]]. |
The '''Retro-Encabulator''' is a fictional device purportedly manufactured by [[Rockwell Automation]], according to a video [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/retro.html] that has been circulating on the [[Internet]]. The video has become popular with [[engineer]]s due to its humurous use of [[technobabble]]. |
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The Retro-Encabulator implements the "crudely conceived idea" of generating "inverse [[Reactance|reactive]] [[Electric current|current]] for use in unilateral phase detractors" and "automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters". The description of the device, which uses made up, technical |
The Retro-Encabulator implements the "crudely conceived idea" of generating "inverse [[Reactance|reactive]] [[Electric current|current]] for use in unilateral phase detractors" and "automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters". The description of the device, which uses made up, technical-sounding terms, as well as meaningless strings of engineering [[jargon]], makes it clear even if not for the questionable source of the video that this is not a real device manufactured by Rockwell Automation. |
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Most [[Electrical generator|generators]] operate by the "relative motion of [[Electrical conductor|conductors]] and [[Electric flux|fluxes]]. On the other hand, the Retro-Encabulator uses the "modial interaction of magneto-[[reluctance]] and [[Capacitance|capaticitive]] diractance. As plausible as this may sound, "modial" and "diractance" are not even words, much less meaningful engineering terms. Some of the other parts mentioned in the video, (e.g. "differential girdle spring" and "dingle-arm") should make it clear even to the technically non-proficient that it is a joke. |
Most [[Electrical generator|generators]] operate by the "relative motion of [[Electrical conductor|conductors]] and [[Electric flux|fluxes]]". On the other hand, the Retro-Encabulator uses the "modial interaction of magneto-[[reluctance]] and [[Capacitance|capaticitive]] diractance". As plausible as this may sound, "modial" and "diractance" are not even words, much less meaningful engineering terms. Some of the other parts mentioned in the video, (e.g. "differential girdle spring" and "dingle-arm") should make it clear even to the technically non-proficient that it is a joke. |
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The joke behind this device is actually quite old. Much of the description comes from a paper, "The Turbo-encabulator in Industry", by J.H. Quick and published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944. This type of joke among engineers actually dates further back than this, such as the Laplace [[transformer]] (a play on the [[Laplace transform]]). |
The joke behind this device is actually quite old. Much of the description comes from a paper, "The Turbo-encabulator in Industry", by J.H. Quick and published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944. This type of joke among engineers actually dates further back than this, such as the Laplace [[transformer]] (a play on the [[Laplace transform]]). |
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Revision as of 18:16, 11 July 2005
The Retro-Encabulator is a fictional device purportedly manufactured by Rockwell Automation, according to a video [1] that has been circulating on the Internet. The video has become popular with engineers due to its humurous use of technobabble.
The Retro-Encabulator implements the "crudely conceived idea" of generating "inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors" and "automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters". The description of the device, which uses made up, technical-sounding terms, as well as meaningless strings of engineering jargon, makes it clear even if not for the questionable source of the video that this is not a real device manufactured by Rockwell Automation.
Most generators operate by the "relative motion of conductors and fluxes". On the other hand, the Retro-Encabulator uses the "modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capaticitive diractance". As plausible as this may sound, "modial" and "diractance" are not even words, much less meaningful engineering terms. Some of the other parts mentioned in the video, (e.g. "differential girdle spring" and "dingle-arm") should make it clear even to the technically non-proficient that it is a joke.
The joke behind this device is actually quite old. Much of the description comes from a paper, "The Turbo-encabulator in Industry", by J.H. Quick and published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944. This type of joke among engineers actually dates further back than this, such as the Laplace transformer (a play on the Laplace transform).