Kyle Kinghorn

Kyle Kinghorn (MS BYU) holds degrees in Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering and currently teaches at BYU-Idaho in the department of Engineering Technology. Courses that he teaches include plastics, composites, tool design, prototyping, and CNC programming. He is also the president of Citius Composites, LLC, a company that specializes in the design and creation of products made from carbon fiber and other advanced materials. He has a passion for creating new products and the processes needed to make them. He and his wife, Malia, are the parents of three children.

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Why was the Liahona a Sphere? A New Perspective on Its Form and Function

by Wanless Southwick, Kyle Kinghorn | undefined 66 | 08-01-2025

Abstract: A new, simpler design for the Liahona is proposed, which, if correct, makes the reason for two spindles and a hollow-ball shape perfectly obvious. Previous proposed models of the Liahona usually show horizontal, compass-like pointers inside an open-top ball, but our model has vertical spindles protected inside a hollow ball with viewing ports to […]

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