The Turbo Encabulator is a fictional machine whose alleged existence became an in-joke and subject of professional humor among electrical engineers.
In 1946 one of the earliest references to the turbo-encabulator appeared in Time on, April 15, 1946 by Bernard Salwen, a New York lawyer working in Washington, DC. Part of Salwen’s job was to review technical manuscripts. He was amused by the jargon and wrote the classic description of a non-existent turboencabulator. - Wikipedia
