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- 1221: Creative Writing: Siege of Yorktown
- ... at Chatham in New York, we all believed that we would attack New York City. It turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown. When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army along with the French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender, he waited for a larger British fleet to save him. Being in the Corps of Sappers and Miners we were to prepare mines and trenches. On the night of ... axes and we were instructed to chop a path through the abatis (the tops of trees cut with a slanting stroke to act as spikes) they were nearly impossible to get through. As American and French soldiers rushed through the British ran in terror, only minor hand to hand combat took place. Soon afterwords the British handed over their regimental flags and stacked their weapons in a pile. That was ...
- 1222: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent ... years, education can no longer be something that one aquires during youth to serve for an entire lifetime. Rather, education must focus on instilling the ability to continue learning throughout life. Fortunately, the information-technology revolution is creating a new form of electronic, interactive education that should blossom into a lifelong learning system that allows almost anyone to learn almost anything from anywhere, at anytime. The key technology in future ...
- 1223: Airships
- ... steering systems, it is used to carry passengers and cargo. It obtains its buoyancy from the presence of a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. The first airship was developed by the French, called a ballon dirigible, it could be steered and could also be flown against the wind. TYPES OF AIRSHIP Two basic types of airship have been developed: the rigid airship, the shape of which is ... Atlantic on Apr. 4, 1933; the Macon first flew on Apr. 21, 1933, and crashed in the Pacific on Feb. 12, 1935. HISTORY OF NONRIGID AIRSHIPS The first successful nonrigid airships were built by the French. In 1852 Henri Giffard built an airship of 113,000 cu ft powered by a steam engine. The brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier constructed a 37,500-cu ft airship propelled by a battery-powered ... At the turn of the century the Brazilian aeronaut Alberto Dumont built and flew a series of small airships in France, all of which used gasoline engines. Blimps were effectively used by the British and French in World War I in maritime reconnaissance against German submarines. The term blimp, a British slang expression of unknown origin, came into use about this time. In World War II, the United States was ...
- 1224: The History of The Airship
- ... hydrogen which is elongated or streamlined to enable easy passage through the air, these Airships could reach speeds up to 10mph with a 5hp steam engine propeller. The first successful airship was that of the French engineer and inventor Henri Giffard, who constructed in 1852 a cigar-shaped, non-rigid gas bag 44 m (143 ft) long, driven by a screw propeller rotated by a 2.2-kw (3-hp) steam ... be steered only in calm or nearly calm weather. The first airship to demonstrate its ability to return to its starting place in a light wind was the La France, developed in 1884 by the French inventors Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs. It was driven by an electrically rotated propeller. The Brazilian aeronaut Alberto Santos-Dumont developed a series of 14 airships in France. In his No. 6, in 1901, he ... captured were surrendered to the Allies by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. At the outbreak of the war, France had a fleet of semi-rigid airships, developed by officers of the French army. The experience of the war, however, in disclosing the vulnerability of airships to airplane attack, caused the abandonment of the dirigible for offensive military purposes. Non-rigid airships became useful for aerial observation, ...
- 1225: Computers And Marketing
- ... Wide Web. An important program has aided companies all over the world. Computer- aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) is the integration of two technologies. It has often been called the new industrial revolution. In CAD, engineers and designers use specialized computer software to create models that represent characteristics of objects. These models are analyzed by computer and redesigned as necessary. This allows companies needed flexibility in studying different ... usually follows passive one-to-many communication where a firm reaches many current and potential customers through marketing efforts that allow limited forms of feedback on the part of the customer. For several years a revolution has been developing that is dramatically changing the traditional form of advertising and communication media. This revolution is the Internet, a massive global network of interconnected computer networks which has the potential to drastically change the way firms do business with their customers. The World Wide Web is a hypertext based ...
- 1226: Brief History of Library Automation: 1930-1996
- ... automation, it is possible to return to past centuries when visionaries well before the computer age created devices to assist with their book lending systems. Even as far back as 1588, the invention of the French "Book Wheel" allowed scholars to rotate between books by stepping on a pedal that turned a book table. Another interesting example was the "Book Indicator", developed by Albert Cotgreave in 1863. It housed miniature books ... the present . Library Automation 1980-present The 70's were the era of the dummy terminal that were used to gain access to mainframe on-line databases. The 80's gave birth to a new revolution. The size of computers decreased, at the same time, technology provided faster chips, additional RAM and greater storage capacity. The use of microcomputers during the 1980's expanded tremendously into the homes, schools, libraries and ...
- 1227: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent ... years, education can no longer be something that one aquires during youth to serve for an entire lifetime. Rather, education must focus on instilling the ability to continue learning throughout life. Fortunately, the information-technology revolution is creating a new form of electronic, interactive education that should blossom into a lifelong learning system that allows almost anyone to learn almost anything from anywhere, at anytime. The key technology in future ...
- 1228: Microsoft Corporation
- ... materials that humans utilized. The Bronze Age and the Iron Age were two periods in human history that proved through the discovery of artifacts that humans learned to harness these raw materials ingeniously. The Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century brought the discoveries of the Bronze and Iron Ages to new heights, and the advent of the locomotive, automobiles, cargo ships and airplanes were the most evident by-products of ... i.e., tapping out Morse code and speaking over telephone lines), business and trade grew exponentially. Wireless communications via the inventions of radio, television, and motion pictures contributed greatly to the advances of the Industrial Revolution. The need to find better ways of doing business to keep the marketplace fresh and innovative has driven the human race toward the brink of a new eraCthe Information Age. Unlike more tangible qualities of ... real software for this chip.' I was sure it would happen sooner than later, and I wanted to be involved form the beginning. The chance to get in on the first stages of the PC revolution seemed the opportunity of a lifetime, and I seized it.@ (Gates, 16). Driven by fear of someone writing software for the Altair 8800 personal computer before his own software was complete, Gates scrambled feverishly ...
- 1229: Tale of Two Cities: The Wine Shop Chapter - Element of Secrecy
- ... named Jaque, the existence of a remote attic to hide Mr. Monette, and third, Mme. Defarge's behavior. The men all sharing the same name certainly appears odd. Because it is the era of the French Revolution, the sameness of the names suggests some secret activity is going on. The secret activity is the hiding of Mr. Monette, upstairs in the attic, "The door is locked, then, my friend?"said Mr. Lorry ...
- 1230: 1984: Socialism, Fascism, or Communism
- ... of Socialism. Communism also calls for no private property while there is shared ownership of all money and business. Everyone works about the same amount, as in 1984, but a true communist government requires a revolution by the workers, the proletariats. In the book, the proles are the working classes, so that might foreshadow a revolution. Also, another trait that shows up in 1984 is no religion. The ultimate goal of Communism is that no government is needed. In a fascist state, there is a totalitarian dictatorship, where one person or ... a large Fascist state. In 1984, I do think that the form of government takes some characteristics from Fascism and Socialism. Although, the entire deal with the proles seems as if there will be a revolution into a Communist government.
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