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Igor Sikorsky - 0 views
Junkers.de | Visionen: Übersicht - 0 views
Airplane Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - 0 views
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1947 Sound barrior broken U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager becomes the fastest man alive when he pilots the Bell X-1 faster than sound for the first time on October 14 over the town of Victorville, California.
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1952 Discovery of the area rule of aircraft design Richard Whitcomb, an engineer at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, discovers and experimentally verifies an aircraft design concept known as the area rule. A revolutionary method of designing aircraft to reduce drag and increase speed without additional power, the area rule is incorporated into the development of almost every American supersonic aircraft. He later invents winglets, which increase the lift-to-drag ratio of transport airplanes and other vehicles.
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The Economics of Nuclear Power: Current Debates and Issues for Future Consideration | C... - 1 views
John Maynard Keynes: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and L... - 0 views
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Contrary to some of his critics’ assertions, Keynes was a relatively strong advocate of free markets. It was Keynes, not adam smith, who said, “There is no objection to be raised against the classical analysis of the manner in which private self-interest will determine what in particular is produced, in what proportions the factors of production will be combined to produce it, and how the value of the final product will be distributed between them.”
Commanding Heights: Storyline | on PBS - 1 views
Alan Turing: a short biography - 5 - 0 views
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Turing was captivated by the potential of the computer he had conceived. Although his 1936 work had shown the absolute limitations of the computable, he had become fascinated by what Turing machines could do, rather than by what they could not. He had long abandoned his youthful expectations of finding free will or free spirits through quantum mechanics. His later thought was strongly determinist and atheistic in character. And by the end of the Second World War he had turned against the tentative idea that there were steps of 'intuition' in human thought corresponding to uncomputable operations. Instead, he held that the computer would offer unlimited scope for practical progress towards embodying intelligence in an artificial form.
[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling" - PM | Number10.gov.uk - 0 views
Alan Turing - Home Page - 0 views
Sigmund Freud Documentary Pt. 1 of 3 - 0 views
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, by Sigmu... - 0 views
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The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
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there always seemed to be a close connection between his patients' dreams and their mental abnormalities
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constant connection between some part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the previous waking state
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Poems, by T. S. Eliot - 1 views
Einsteins Theory of Relativity - 0 views
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the principle of relativity
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We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with respect to K. This statement is called
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(in the restricted sense).
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Albert Einstein | Physicist - 0 views
The NEW LDS.org - 1 views
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I have had a lot of fun with this. There is a new ward callendar and directory that are far easier to use and add to then the old calendars and are far more efficent. Also, as a Ward Executive Secretary it allows me to get on to a large chunk of the MLS enabling me to get most of my work done without having to kick the Ward Clerk off of the churches computers.