Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nate Greene, an engineer at Towson’s Stanley Black & Decker, calls the innovation “extremely atypical.” A group of students from Johns Hopkins University signed onto a class project and were tasked with building a new product for the multinational tool company. And they actually did it. …
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Engineering students invent a quieter leaf blower
The team started working last September. They hoped to improve an electric or battery-powered leaf blower, which is already much quieter than the notorious gas-powered ones, where the sound can carry over an average suburban block. Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take …
