Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute US Army Command, 1990. — 13 p. During World War I, the stalemate of trench warfare created conditions of intense frustration because of high casualties, seemingly endless artillery fire, and no sense of accomplishment. The stalemate forced a turn to elite units, which required aggressive, reliable, and intelligent personnel to carry out...
London: Horage Marshall & Son, 1946. — 78 p. The history and technical development of model aircraft, by one of the best known names in aeromodelling, Lt.-Col. C.E. Bowden (1897-1984). Well illustrated with black & white photographs.
London: Persival Marshal & Co, 1945. — 238 p. With Notes of Diesels. The starting procedure on page 110 (3) caused me problems when starting my first engine, an E. D, Bee diesel because it told you to increase the compression for starting and then reduce it when running, the exact opposite of what was required (should have read the instructions that came with the engine as the...
Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Political Science Department, 2013. — 302 p. Military strategy was long described as atheoretical—an art that could only be fully comprehended by military genius. This contention is no...
Fort Monmouth: Electronic Components Department US Army Electronics Research And Development Laboratory, 1963. — 136 p. The technique of forming thin-film capacitors by the anodic oxidation of the surfaces of vacuum deposited films of aluminum, tantalum, tungsten, titanium and zirconium has been investigated. Breakdown voltages equal to or greater than the anodization forming...
Doctoral Thesis. — Tasmania: University of Tasmania, 1991. — 259 p. Military technology change is a subject of enormous diversity and profound complexity. To reduce the topic to some ordered form the thesis discusses military technological changes in one period; the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. The thesis also contends that military technology cannot be studied in purely...
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in National Security Affairs. — Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School, 1999. — 166 p. The British Army was sent to Northern Ireland in 1969 as a peacekeeping force between the Catholic and Protestant communities Against a backdrop of sectarian violence, emerging paramilitary organizations began...
The Crowood Press, 2000. — 192 p. — ISBN 1861263147. In the early 1900s, Malcolm and Allan Haines Loughead, two young aviationminded brothers in an Francisco, California, with the help of their half brother, Victor, started out on the road that was to lead two of them to form one of the biggest aviation corporations in the world. Allan Loughead, a fine engineer, aircraft...
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, 1865. — 46 p. Clearly explained and Illustrated in a Series of Easy Lessons, with some important Hints to Wrestlers. By a pupil of Mendosa and Humphrey, with lithografies.
36t h AIANASM EISAUASEE Joint Propulsion Conference 17-19 July 2000 . — Huntsville, Alabama, 2000. — 8 p. Boxwell R., G. Bromley, D. Mason, D. Crockett, L. Martinez, C. McNeal. Material test methods from the 1960’s have been used as a starting point in evaluating materials compatible with high concentration hydrogen peroxide for use in today’s space launch vehicles. These...
Eleventh Edition. — New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. — 473 p. The Boy Scout Movement has become almost universal, and vherever organized its leaders are glad, as we are, to acknowldge the debt we all owe to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert S. S. Baden-owell, who has done so much to make the movement of interest o boys of all nations. The BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is a corporation...
First published in the United States of America, 1977. — 260 p. Although Csarist Russia was considered among the industrially and technically backward nations of the world at the dawn of the twentieth century, it had manufactured its first aircraft by 1910, begun to form its first military air units a year later and entered the First World War with some 250 aircraft. When the...
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities in the University of Buckingham. Vol. 1, 2. — Buckingham, 2015. — 546 p. This thesis proposes major revisions to the history of the naval defence of Britain’s Eastern Empire during the critical period 1935 – 42 as the Royal Navy (RN) sought to manage the increasing risks posed by three potential...
Philadelphia; St. Louis: P. W. Ziegler & Co, 1892. — 470 p. St. Jerome records the fact that, toward the end of the fourth century, pilgrims arrived in crowds in Judea, and that they represented nearly every christian country of Europe and Asia. It was no unusual thing to see them gathered in immense groups about the Holy Sepulchre and in the sacred places, and to hear their...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906. — 386 p. The study of Russian offers to the beginner difficulties in many respects comparable to those which make the classical languages so difficult of access - numerous and complicated inflections for nouns and pronouns; a verbal system of rare flexibility; a syntax simple in its principles, but very different from the syntax of...
London, New York, Syney: Jane’s Publishing Company, 1981. — 160 p. Conceived in 1948, first flown in 1952 and projected still to be in front-line service in the 21st century, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is one of the most extraordinary aircraft in history. Here is the book to do justice to the story of the development and operational career of this legendary bomber.
London: Janes, 1981. — 160 p. Conceived in 1948, first flown in 1952 and projected still to be in front-line service in the 21st century, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is one of the most extraordinary aircraft in history. Here is a book to do justice to the story of the development and operational career of this legendary bomber. The book features a comprehensive history of...
London: Bernards Publishers Ltd, 1961. — 60 p. Transistor low power transmitter is given. One small section deals with RX out put circuits and drawings of a proportional actuator for use with transistors.
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 1993. — 57 p. This monograph conducts a doctrinal analysis of Red Army planning and execution of the Soviet-Finnish War to determine if poorly developed doctrine was the cause of Soviet failures. Military doctrine is critical to a nation. Sound doctrine...
Shaan: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974. — 240 p. — ISBN 399-11375-4. The Crusades., those wars between the East and West which shook the Mediterranean area for centuries., still exert their influence. Despite the intervening centuries of Ottoman rule in most of the Near East., despite world wars which have changed whole socio-economic patterns, something has survived. The influence of...
Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, 2006. — 1717 p. This finding aid will help researchers interested in Japanese war crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials to navigate the vast holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park (NARA). It will also be useful to anyone interested in military, intelligence, political,...
Boston, Oxford, Auckland, Johannesburg, Melbourne, New Delhi: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001. — 259 p. Nicola Tesla, the great inventor, believed that the newly discovered radio could be used to contact the spirits. Over many years, he and other famous inventors, including Marconi and Edison, searched for a way to "tune" their signals, upgrade their circuits, or otherwise make...
São Paulo: 1994. — 218 p. Este artigo, baseado no meu livro Transmissores Para Iniciantes (esgotado) saiu na revista francesa Electronique Pratique número 224 em abril de 1998 com o nome Um Broulleur Expérimental (Um Transmissor de Ruído). Trata-se de um circuito que gera sinais numa ampla fauixa de FM e VHF causando interferência nos equipamentos das proximidades. Sua...
Italiano. — Milano: Riccardio Quintieri - Editore, 1915. — 92 p. Un’armata senza un alleato esercito di spioni, è simile a un pugilatore cieco. Poiché lo spionaggio è l’invisibile preparatone della guerra, la necessità della preparirazione spinge ogni esercito ad aumentare propri occhi sotterranei. Facile è sorprendere l’urgenza dello spionaggio, e ingenuo ilrivelarne...
Fayard, 2017. — 208 p. — ISBN : 978-2-213-70332-9. Les relations entre la France et l'Algérie peuvent être bonnes ou mauvaises, en aucun cas elles ne peuvent être banales." Ces mots de 1974 sont de Abdelaziz Bouteflika alors jeune ministre des Affaires Étrangères. Le contexte est particulier: il veut faire de son pays le guide des non alignés, la tête pensante d'une autre...
New edition. — New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1960. — 627 p.; ill. You know, scientists do a lot of interesting things. They launch rockets they go into space, explode atoms to release their energy, study the movement of stars with telescopes and the life cycle of microbes with microscopes. We will tell about all this in this collection.
New Edition. — New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1960. — 226 p. General science is a course of scientific study and investigation which has its roots in the common experience of children and which does not exclude any one of the fundamental special sciences. It seeks to elucidate the general principles observable in nature, without emphasizing the traditional division into...
Columbus: American Ceramic Society, 1906. — 451 p. "The original edition of this bibliography was published in 1896 as Bulletin 143 of the US Geological survey." The publication of this Bibliography of Clays and the Ceramic Arts is an occasion of more than passing importance to the American Ceramic Society, and to the large body of persons who are interested in the industrial,...
Brooklyn: Cemicals Publishers, 1943. — 154 p. This book was written primarilly for the practical man who is interested in adliesives either as producer, consumer, or salesman. It is not intended for the specialist or for those who are concerned with the scientific aspects of adhesives. No chemical or technical training is required for the full understanding of this hook, as the...
Hampton: Space Administration Office of Management Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1990. — 73 p. With the use of an operational space station as an initial staging node in low-Earth orbit (LEO), recent studies (refs. 1 and 2) have shown that manned exploration of the solar system will be technically feasible early in the 21st century. Because of its proximity,...
English translation by Henry I. White. — 1953. — 207 p. With colour illustrations and a technical appendix. Mankind's love affair with the planet Mars is certainly not new. " n a s l°ng been recognized that Mars is the planet in our solar system most capable of supporting life. Until the 1970s, the existence of life on Mars remained an open question. We know today that there are...
Reprint. — Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1991. — ISBN: 0-252-06227-2 The algorithm of spaceflight laid out step-by-step in the terse lines of Wernher von Braun's Mars Project displays the logic that seventeen years later carried astronauts to the Moon. Humans have always dreamed of travel to other worlds . The g real rocket pioneers-Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard, Tso...
Italiano. — Milano: Etas Periodici del Tempo, 1975. — 123 p. Страницы книги рассказывают истории и факты о новейшем поколении электронных шпионов. Повествуют о секретных службах и секретных инструментах, которые каждый может изготовить в своей заведомо секретной лаборатории: прослушки, приемники и другие шпионские устройств. Delle spie e delle loro storie più o meno romanzate è...
London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. — 498 p. We are in the matters of the kitchen no admirers of the wisdom of our ancestors. Cookery is eminently an experimental and a practical art. Each day, while it adds to our experience should also increase our knowledge. And now that intercommunication between distant nations has become facile and frequent; now that we may almost make a very...
Philadelphia: McKay, 1898. — 317 p. No table-of-contents pages found. Strip of paper pasted onto page 176 obscures text in physical copy. Some content affected by narrow inner margins. Some text skewed in physical copy. Some pages damaged with loss of content. Some content at page edges cropped in physical copy.
Department of Automatic Control Lund University, October 2008. — 184 p. This thesis work focuses on the study of a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The proposed structure is a fourpropeller helicopter called quadrotor. In these last years, a growing interest has been shown in robotics. In fact, several industries (automotive, medical,...
Literature Seminar, 2003. — P.45 - 48 Diamond, the cubic modification of crystalline carbon, has long held a special place in thein the hearts and minds of both scientists and the public at large. For the latter, the word diamond conjures images of brilliant gemstones and special occasions. To the scientist, however, diamond distinguishes itself with a wide range of unique...
Boulder: Paladin Press, 2002. — 159 p. — ISBN: 1-58160-306-1 The study of arms and armour construction techniques has, since the Middle Ages, been the purview of a limited fraternity of metalworkers. Guarding their secrets with fervent ardor, armourers and metalworkers left us next to nothing besides limited examples of their work. Anyone captured by the mystique of the knight...
Выходных данных нет, 2009. — 38 slides. The formative period of Chinese history - the era of the Shang and Chou dynasties, before China was unified politically - was, like the early history of India before its unification by the Mauryan Dynasty, a time during which. most of China's cultural tradition arose. As in India, this tradition has. lasted into the present century. The...
Jefferson City: The Missouri Department of Conservation, 2017. — 59 p. Snakes have generated more fear and misunderstanding than any other group of animals. Psychologists have proven that a fear of snakes (called ophidiophobia) is acquired; we are not born with it. Once people learn some of the interesting facts about snakes and discover that most of them are harmless and...
London: 1788. — 656 p. Proper Direftions for Marketing, and Truffing of Poultry. The making Soups and Broths. Sauces for every Occafion. Boiling and Roafting. Baking, Broiling, and Frying. Stews and Hafhes. Made Dilhes of every Sort. Ragi'us and Fricafees. Diredtions for drefling all Sorts of Roots and Vegetables. All Sorts of Aumlets and Eggs. Puddings, Pies, Tarts, &c. Pancakes...
New York, Chicago: Pitman Pub. Corp, 1941. — 470 p. In this book, the authors have endeavored to present the lundamentals of engine construction, operation and maintenance in a form wjiich may be readily grasped by a beginner in the field. In addition, there has been inclucjed reference material which should be of value to the expert engine mechanic. There is no intent to...
London: Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1887. — 474 p. Containing illustrations of over six hundred examples from various countries and from the Earliest periods down to the end of the Eighteenth century with descriptive and general Index. The present work is the outgrowth of what was originally a comparatively small collection of drawings of Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, made at...
Presumed first edition. — Tōkyō: Sanseidō, 1896. — 1720 p. There are numerous small black and white illustrations within the text. This is a hard-to-find Japanese-English dictionary from the late 19th century. It has been prepared by Francis Brinkley (1841-1912), an Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar who resided in Meiji period Japan for over 40 years. He was...
New York: Ballantine Books Publishing, 1964. — 385 p. The complete, authoritive handbook for safe procedures in design, testing, preperation of fuels and firing of rockets which you can make yourself. Пособие для ракетомоделистов. Организация и безопасность. Основы изготовления ракет. Ракетное топливо. Предполетное тестирование. Запуск ракет.
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1895. — 152 p. Everyone who is interested in American archaeology (and especially those who do not read German) should feel greatly indebted to Dr. Brinton for his "Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphs", because in this small book he collected the results of work done over the past few years in America, England and Germany, and his own extensive knowledge of the...
Ministry of Defence (MOD) GB, 2009. — 278 p. Полевое руководство Британской Армии. Борьба с мятежниками (в смысле с повстанцами, инсургентами, партизанами). It is over eight years since the Army last published counterinsurgency doctrine. Much has changed since then. This manual is a short guide to insurgency, and the principles and approaches needed to counter it. It has been...
Robertson House: Royal Military Academy. — 52 p. Foreword Lieutenant General Sharon Nesmith, Deputy Chief of the General Staff A new way of winning Major General James Bowder, Director Army Futures Challenges of modernisation Colonel Chris Coton, Assistant Head Concepts, and Dr Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow RUSI 15 homing in on human-machine teaming tech Colonel Tim...