New Weapons And Technology In World War I
.... lorry chassis with armored sides and a revolving turret with a Vickers-maxim machine gun. The first design of a tank known as “Little Willie” designed by Lieutenant W.G. Wilson and William Tritton. It consisted of an armored box encircled by caterpillar tracks. The first vehicle to be designed and completed as a tank was not very effective. It was too short to cross a German trench that was more than four-foot wide. An improved version of Wilson’s tank was developed in 1916. The Mark I had an armor plate varying from 12mm to 6mm in thickness. It had four Vickers water-cooled machine guns. The British Army ordere .....
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Computer Programmer
.... be able to execute this command. A simple misspelling of one word, can make a program worthless. Errors such as these must be identified and corrected before a program can successfully accomplish its assigned task.
There are many types of jobs a computer programmer can do. One is designing programs, or portions of programs. The primary job here is to analyse what the program is supposed to do, and write the code for it. Some problems need to be creatively solved. Most times, a program is so large, that you must work in teams, and divide the work. Working as a team, programs are designed with the end user in mind and are made .....
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Microsoft
.... Windows operating system went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Windows 98 was launched last June. (Martin, et al., 1995)
Why did the Windows 98 program become so controversial? Due to the fact that Windows program has been used on ninety percent of all the PCs in the world, and Microsoft utilized such advantage to include Internet Explorer program. Internet Explorer program allows you to surf the Internet, which has very little to do with the operating system, thus, causing an unfair advantage over the co .....
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The Birth Of Fiber Optics-To It's Popularity
.... used as a surgical lamp.
In the 1920's, Englishmen John Logie Baird and American Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television and facsimiles respectively.
In 1930, German medical student, Heinrich Lamm was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry an image. Lamm's goal was to look inside inaccessible parts of the body, during his experiments he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb. However the image was of poor quality. His effort to file a patent was denied because of Hansell's British patent.
In 1954, Dutch scienti .....
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Air Bags
.... the air bag system whenever the vehicle ignition is turned on. These air bags are designed to inflate in moderate-to-severe frontal and near-frontal crashes. They inflate when the crash froces are about equivalent to striking a brick wall head on at 10-15 mph. Air bags are not designed to deploy in rollover crashes. The air bag inflates within about 1/20 of a second after impact at a speed of 200 mph. On occasion, this rapid force has caused injuries and even some deaths. After inflating, the air bag rapidly lets out sodium azide propellant which then converts to nitrogen gas and leaves a residue of sodium hydroxide and oth .....
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Internet Orientation Project
.... when needed, not too early, and never late. Extra stock ends up in inventory, and although labeled as an asset in the books, it is actually a liability. This drives the agent to search for creative ways to control materials. One key way to accomplish this is to utilize distributors that are “committed to long term relationships in which they take on more of the responsibility of managing activities up and down the supply chain” (Avery 52). This has to be a mutual sharing of information and cross training in order to work effectively.
Inefficiencies in lead times are probably the biggest nuisance to a buyer or purchasing agent .....
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The Serious Year 2000 Problem
.... rather than forwards. Insurance company computers might report a policy running through the year 2001 as having instead expired in 1901.
A bank computer calculating the interest for a financial instrument for the six year period of 1995 through the year 2000 might instead calculate the interest for the period of 1900 through 1995, for a ninety-six year period instead of a six year period.
Given the multitude of computer programming languages in use and the variety of data uses for date fields, computer experts have advised that no single “silver bullet” exists to correct the Year 2000 problem. In fact, over 40 vendors current .....
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Modems
.... recent and haven’t gone out of date yet.
There are two types of modem external and external modems internal plugs into a 16 bit port inside your computer and external connects through either a serial (mouse)port or a parallel (printer)port most people like the external modems because they don’t take up an extra space in your computer (according to PC Computing) prices in modems range price from $100 (28.8bps) to $500(software upgradable 56k). Facsimile machines also have a form of modem in them, usually a 2400baud modem to decode the message. So imagine a world without the modem for a second; NO fax NO Internet NO direct .....
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Fiber Optics
.... between the last place where the signal is split to the home of the subscriber. at this time, the drop portion of the network is exclusively coaxial cable; however, cable operators and equipment vendors alike are exploring ways to make fiber an economic alternative to coax.
Cable TV operators are evaluating a variety of new services, among the most promising are: alternative access, personal communications networks, video on demand, interactive services, digital compression, ATM, optical amplifiers and 1550nm transmission, erbium- doped fiber amplifiers and wavelength division multiplexers.
Cable TV system architectures hav .....
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So, How Does It Work? The Wankel Rotary Engine
.... of NSU differs from a Piston Engine in four fundamental ways:
The RCE Rotor supercedes the piston engine's piston.
The RCE Eccentric Shaft [gloss] supercedes the piston engine's crankshaft and connecting rods.
The RCE Peripheral Housing [gloss] supercedes the piston engine's cylinder.
Intake and Exhaust Ports [gloss] in the housings eliminate valves, camshafts, cams, lifter rods, and timing belts. See also porting.
The RCE has considerable advantages over the conventional piston engine.
The RCE Rotor Moves Inside an Epitrochoid Curve
The Housing shape is an epitrochoid [gloss] curve (more properly, perit .....
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Computer Piracy
.... of products.” There are many ways that an individual can commit computer/software piracy. There are six different methods that you can pirate software. The first method of software piracy is called End User Copying. This is the most common method of software/computer piracy. In order to do this, the individual who purcahsed the software at the local retail/department store must share this product with a neighbour, co-worker, or colleague. An example of this type of piracy is the following: Joe went to his local computer store bought Norton Anti-Virus, installed it on his computer, told his neighbour and installed it on his com .....
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Technological Advancement
.... that do not wish to see this area progress. The progress in the area of weaponry and warfare is seen by many as an increase in the capabilities for humans to destroy one another and the environment. The dropping of the first atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, truly demonstrated for the first time the extent to which technology had advanced our defensive capabilities. From the end of World War II it was now safe to say that the human race possessed the capability to destroy all life on the planet, whereas before technology had allowed us only the capability to destroy large amounts of it. With the .....
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