... In order to safeguard the reliable operation ofthe steering gear, two motors are to be provided, with any one of them in service and the other in the state of stand-by. The hand steering system ... voyage. When the main power station breaks down, the power supply ofthe emergency lighting to be received from the emergency generating set through the emergency lighting circuit. Whereas the ... automatically if the main network or emergency network fails, or the voltage drops to 40 % ofthe rated value. On the contrary, the circuit will be open automatically as well when the main network...
... called theAgeof Information, but in another light it can be called theAgeof Distraction.While humanity has never been free of distraction — from swatting those bothersome gnats around the ... In front of us is the computer, with email notications and other notications of all kinds. Then there’s the addicting lure ofthe browser, which contains not only an endless amount of reading ... because you’re no longer at the mercy ofthe requests of others. What’s the best use of your time? What tasks will have the most impact on your life and work, rather than just seeming urgent...
... solution of sal-ammoniac. The oxide of manganese relieves the carbon plate of its hydrogen. The strength ofthe solution is maintained by spare crystals of sal-ammoniac lying on the bottom of the ... article of trade with the Phoenicians, those early merchants ofthe Mediterranean. The attractive power might enhance the value ofthe gem in the eyes ofthe superstitious ancients, but they ... each other. It follows that the magnetic pole ofthe compass needle which turns to the north must be unlike the north and like the south magnetic pole ofthe earth. Instead of calling it the...
... day write. They include the epic ofthe coal in the Pennsylvania hills, the epic ofthe ore, the epic ofthe railroad, the epic ofthe great city; and, in general, the subjugation of a continental ... PIONEERS OFTHE MACHINE SHOPIX. THE FATHERS OF ELECTRICITY X. THE CONQUEST OFTHE AIRBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE AGEOF INVENTION The Legal Small Print 6hand. The owners ofthe mills are particularly ... Even in the early daysbefore machinery, division of labor was the rule in the shops of Massachusetts. One workman cut the leather,often tanned on the premises; another sewed the uppers together,...
... sense of humour: the informationdemandsingenomicsarestaggering. The genomecontainstwokinds of digitalinformation,onethatencodes the proteinandRNA‘molecularmachines of life’,and the otherbeing the regulatorynetworksthatspecifyhowthesegenesareexpressedintime,spaceandamplitude.DNAinformationislayeredandarrangedinahierarchy,startingwith the gene,then the RNA, then the protein, then the protein interactions, then the proteincomplexes,then the networks of proteincomplexes ina cell,then the tissues andorgans,then the individualorganism,followedbypopulationsand the ecosystemsinwhichtheylive.Inthiskind of discoveryscience,masteringsuchvastquantities of informationtoanswerimportantquestionsisaskillandanart.And the hardware? The firstautomatedsequencingmachinetookaday,in1986,tosequence250 ofthe threebillionbasepairs.Ittook the humangenomeprojecttenyearstosequence the humangenome,twoyearsshorterthanpredicted;and the privatecompanyCelerawithitsso-calledshotgunapproachtooklessthan the publicconsortium’s ... waspreservedinArabicmanuscripts’(Lewontin1995:148).Thereisnoquestionthat the libraries of Alexandriawerecentralto the cityand the broadregionincludingwhattodayis the Middle-East,NorthAfricaandmuch of CentralandWesternEurope;thattheywerenot the onlyonestoexistbutwerepart of alargerset of institutionstoemergefrom the concatenations of cultural,scholarlyandotherareas of learningandapplication of whatwerethen the advancedsocieties of thispart ofthe world. The agency of theirruinisnotsocertain,neitherisitclearwhatitwasinvolumeandsubstance ... Or,perhaps,itrelatedtotradingwithneighbours,or,moreonadeeplyexistentiallevel,observing the astronomical,with,asGeorgesIfrahputsitsobeautifullyin the Universalhistory of numbers,afascinationwith the regularity ofthe phases ofthe moon, the eternalreturn of dayandnight, the cycle ofthe seasons’or,wemightadd,given the context, the ellipticalphases ofthe tides of greatandmarvellousoceans(Ifrah2000:xvi).In the history of counting, the SanandKhoiperhapsjoinedotherhumanbeingsand,inobservingthatbirdshavetwowings,animalsfourlegs,andtheytenfingerstotheirhandsandtentoestotheirfeet,developedanumberingsystemusingtheirfingersortoesas the baseten, the mostcommontype of countingfoundamongearlierpeoples.Orperhapstheyjoined the Mayans,Aztecs,CeltsandBasqueswholookeddownattheirfeetandrealisedthattheirtoescouldbecountedlikefingersandchose the muchmoreunusualarithmeticbase of 20.SCI...
... product. The oil regions regarded these advantages as giving them the right todominate the growing industry, and they had frequently proclaimed the doctrine that the business belonged tothem. They ... prevalent at the time, the man who shipped the largest quantities of oil should get the lowest rate. The purchase ofthe Cleveland refineries made the Standard Oil group the largest shippers and therefore ... left the production of crude oil in the hands ofthe private drillers, but practically every other branch ofthe business passedultimately into their hands. Both the New York Central and the...
... butupon the Evidence [there was] no contradiction. I directed the Jury from the Injustice ofthe Demand upon the State of it to find against the Plain-tiff,buttheyfoundforthewages,&thennamedthesum.TherecanbenoNewTrial.’’Further,inBruckshaw ... Lord M.I doubted whetherPlaintiff, havingbrokethe Condition oftheGiftrelative to the purchase of a Commission in the front Regiment [of] the Duke of Glosters, & having otherwise misbehaved, ... thoughthePlaintiffsaidheaccount[s]forthatfromtheSatisfactionoftheDefendant. One ofthe Witnesses was dead. The Plaintiff owned the other was alive, & remembered the transaction, but they trustedpublished...
... throughout the lasttwo years ofthe War.So, too, feeding and supplying an army of millions of men laid the foundation of many of our greatestindustries. The Northern soldiers in the early days ofthe ... held them, they reaped huge rewards from the leases which theyhad themselves decreed. Perhaps their most remarkable exploit was the lease ofthe West Division RailwayCompany of Chicago to the ... was the control of municipal politics. The story of the Metropolitan's manipulation ofthe New York street railways starts with one ofthe most sordid episodes in the municipal annals of...
... complaining of the practice of usury by priests, ofthe pomp ofthe cardinals and ofthe pope's habit of giving promises of preferment to certain sees and then declaring the places vacant on the ... was the foundation of laybrotherhoods, like that ofthe Common Life, with the purpose of cultivating a good character in the world, and of rendering social service. The number of these brotherhoods ... which the church acted. In four respects, particularly the ideals ofthe new age were incompatible with those ofthe Roman communion.[Sidenote: Sacramental theory ofthe church] The first of these...
... product. The oil regions regarded these advantages as giving them the right todominate the growing industry, and they had frequently proclaimed the doctrine that the business belonged tothem. They ... no record of his "silly paper" in their official minutes. Yet these two men, the American Kelly and the Englishman Bessemer, were the creators of modern steel. The records ofthe American ... held them, they reaped huge rewards from the leases which theyhad themselves decreed. Perhaps their most remarkable exploit was the lease ofthe West Division RailwayCompany of Chicago to the...
... house. The Glimeswere lords ofthe important town of Bergen-op-Zoom, which, situated between the River Scheldt and the Meuse delta, was one ofthe links between the northern and the southern Netherlands. ... masters were ofthe brotherhood of the Common Life. One of them, Johannes Synthen, brought to his task a certain degree of understanding of classic antiquity in its purer form. Toward the end of Erasmus's ... belongsto the same best period ofthe author. Its subject is the central intellectual figure ofthe next generation after the period which Huizinga called the waning, or rather the autumn, ofthe Middle...
... in the EU directive that would generally place the burden of proof of the efficiency effects of any restraints of internet retailing on the manufacturers (regardless of the market share ofthe ... reduce the value ofthe product to the customer. 50. The “image” of a brand is therefore an integral part ofthe product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers. Manufacturers of luxury ... This means the value of a specific purchase will often be related to how others view the product, and a deterioration of image even in the assessment of people who are not consumers ofthe product...
... largeness of thought, and a grasp of language in the prose of Hooker, of JeremyTaylor, and of Milton which is beyond the reach of Dryden, but he has the merit of using a simple form of English ... goddesses therefore play a conspicuous part in his description ofthe Forest. The following lines afford a fair illustration ofthe style throughout, and the sole merit ofthe poem is the smoothness of ... craftsman of their age andschool.'[1] The Ageof Pope, by John Dennis 5mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul, And he whose lightning pierced the Iberian...