<P> The turboencabulator or turbo - encabulator (and its later incarnations, the retroencabulator or retro - encabulator and Micro Encabulator) is a fictional machine whose alleged existence became an in - joke and subject of professional humor among engineers . The explanation of the supposed product makes extensive use of technobabble . </P> <P> The gag was popular for many years . The following quote is from the original Students' Quarterly Journal article written by J.H. Quick . The citation in the later Time article misspells several of the technical terms . General Electric, Chrysler and Rockwell Automation use many of the same words . </P> <P> The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan . The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented . The main winding was of the normal lotus - o - deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremmie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters . </P> <P> The original technical description of the "turbo - encabulator" was written by British graduate student John Hellins Quick (1923 - 1991). It was published in 1944 by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers Students' Quarterly Journal (in an article titled "The Turbo - Encabulator in Industry" by "J.H. Quick, Student") as also noted by consulting firm Arthur D. Little in a 1995 reprint of Quick's description, and giving Quick's full name . </P>

The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated