Turbo encabulator
The turbo encabulator (later the retro encabulator) is a fictional electromechanical machine with a satirical technobabble description that became a famous in-joke amongst engineers after it was published by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers in their "Students' Quarterly Journal" in 1944. Technical documentation has been written for the non-existent machine, and there are a number of parody marketing videos. History. An early popular American reference to the turbo encabulator appeared in an article by New York lawyer Bernard Salwen in the April 15, 1946 issue of "Time" magazine. Part of Salwen's job was to  review technical manuscripts, including an Arthur D. Little Industrial Bulletin which had reprinted Quick's piece, and he was amused enough by it to include the description in his article. In response to a letter printed in the May 6 issue of "Time" from W. E. Habig of Madison, N.J. asking "What is a 'dingle arm'?”, the editors described it as "An adjunct to the turbo-encabulator, employed whenever a barescent skor motion is required." A month later a response to reader mail on the feature appeared in the June 3, 1946 issue: In 1962 a turbo encabulator data sheet  was created by engineers at the Instrument Department of General Electric in West Lynn, Massachusetts. It quoted from the previous sources and was inserted into the General Electric Handbook, where it was laid out in the same format as the other pages. Engineers added "Shure Stat" in "Technical Features", which was peculiar only to the Instrument Department, and included the first known graphic representation of a "manufactured" turbo encabulator using parts made at the department. Circa 1977, Bud Haggart, an actor who appeared in many industrial training films in and around Detroit, performed in the first film realization of the  description and operation of the turbo encabulator, using a truncated script adapted from Quick's article. Haggart convinced director Dave Rondot and the film crew to stay after the filming of an actual GMC Trucks project training film to realize the turbo encabulator spot. Around 1988, the Chrysler Corporation "manufactured" the turbo encabulator in a video, with Haggart reprising his role from the GM film. Rockwell Automation "manufactured" the renamed "Retro Encabulator" in another video in 1997 featuring actor Mike Kraft. In this video, rather than a transmission-like device, Rockwell uses a series of electrical wall panels to demonstrate  the nature of its Retro Encabulator. In an interview, Kraft explains the video's popularity: On April Fools' Day 2013, Hank Green released a "SciShow" episode on YouTube entitled "The Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator." On April 1, 2016, PATH "introduced" the Micro-Encabulator on their YouTube channel as a "new game-changing global health technology featuring hydrocoptic miniaturization and advanced panametric fan alignment." In August 2018, Macquarie Telecom released a spin-off advertisement of the gag, which instead used telecommunications jargon. In December 2020, the video game "Cyberpunk 2077" included an off-path scannable item called the "Cyberencabulator", findable during  one particular end game mission, with multiple references to the original text, including averted sidefumbling. In April 2021, Keysight paid homage to the turbo encabulator by releasing a video in which the "Electro Turbo Encabulator" was revealed. In April 2022, AlphaPhoenix showed their construction of the first Magneto-Turboencabulator, this allows for transmission of mechanical torque via long range flux interactions, instead of the repulsion between electrons in adjacent bodies of metallic alloy. Also in April 2022, AndyMark showed their construction of the first ROBO ENCABULATOR. It's primary function is to bring a level of FIRST_Robotics_Competition game play that  can not be outmatched. First four presented by Bud Haggart.