Nail+Gun

=Electricity to Motion= =My Device= Marnie Norristoc

Purpose
//What is the fundamental purpose of the device?// The purpose of the device is to make nailing an object much easier than with a hammer and less time consuming, by using electricity to release the nail into the object you are trying to nail.

Energy
//What energy transformations are seen in its operation?// The burst of the Gun powder is transformed into energy..

Controls
//What sensors/controls are designed into the device?// There is a safety on the nose of the gun to keep people from accidentally shooting themselves or others. There is also a mechanism to load a new nail after one is released.

Materials
//What material(s) are essential to the device?// Springs, a trigger, nails, and Gun powder

Science
//What is scientific principle is central to its operation?// The nail gun is powered by the gun powder to ignite and burst to send the Nail in motion.

Design
//What does a typical device look like?// A nail gun typically resembles a gun, hence the name.

Evolution
//What changes have there been (or could there be) in this device?// As people became more technologiclally advanced, it became able to use gun powder as well.

Competitors
//What other devices serve a similar purpose? Staple guns, although instead of nails, staple guns use staples//

Partners
//What other devices work in conjunction with this device?// Nails

Siblings
//What other devices use the same scientific principle?// Staple guns