• CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world
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    Engineering is a branch of Science. Specifically, Engineering is applied science. For example, scientists discovered that microwaves existed. Engineers made them heat up your food. How did we make safer and better microwaves appliances? Engineers applied the scientific method and iterated on the design and performed tests.

    To say engineering is separate from the science is incorrect.

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      It was actually a scientist who made the first microwave.

      They were doing experiments with hamsters with cryogenics, and warming up the frozen hamsters with hot paddles. It didn’t work that well, and the scientist felt bad for the hamsters.

      So, he built the first microwave to warm the hamsters more evenly and ‘humanely’.

      That’s right. The first thing cooked in a microwave was literally a hamster.

      EDIT:

      First Desktop microwave that matches what we consider a microwave today, I should have said. My apologies.

      References:

      A Smith, J Lovelock, A Parkes, 1954: Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling or Partial Crystallization at Body Temperatures Below 0° C… Nature 173, 1136–1137

      R K Andjus, J E Lovelock, 1955: Reanimation of rats from body temperatures between 0 and 1° C by microwave diathermy. The Journal of Physiology, 128.

      Lovelock, J E, Smith A U, 1959, Heat transfer from and to animals in experimental hypothermia and freezing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 80: 487-499.

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      Engineering and science are separate though. They may share many characteristics and share knowledge between them, but the focus and results are fundamentally different.

      Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering#Science