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  • first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • a heavier-than-air craft in which movement of the wings is not used to generate ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...
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  • In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... ==Properties of free space== Free space is characterized by the defined ...
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  • information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to ... beginning in the 1890s. For the first half of the twentieth century, the ...
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  • Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape ... and video cameras. Tape is a linear method of storing information, and since ...
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  • An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...
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  • American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...
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  • and map the location, direction, and/or speed of both moving and fixed ... Radio Detection and Ranging. This acronym of American origin replaced the ...
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  • SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) — or sonar — is a technique ... There are two kinds of sonar — active and passive. The frequencies ...
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  • on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...
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  • Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information ... computer programming involves the use of specific programming languages ...
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  • " is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting electromagnetic ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...
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  • Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...
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  • A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...
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  • by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more ... Their range is subject only to availability of a refueling site and limitations ...
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  • A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ... use engines occasionally. The manufacturers of high-performance gliders now ...
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  • data. Modems can be used over any means of transmitting analog signals ... that turns the digital '1s and 0s' of a personal computer into sounds ...
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  • obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...
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  • fields, which are measured in the units of Teslas (T), vary widely in ... applied in both microphones for recording sound and loudspeakers for projecting ...
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  • Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons. Both uses ...
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