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- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - USS Monitor (7466 bytes)
29: |Complement:||59 officers and men
33: .... She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warship...
39: ...below the waterline to prevent damage from cannon fire. ''Monitor'''s hull was constructed at the Cont...
41: ...ooden vessel covered with iron plates and bearing fixed weapons.
43: ... returned the next day, [[March 9]], [[1862]], to finish off ''Minnesota'' and the rest of the U.S. fl... - Leif Ericson (4502 bytes)
4: ...have discovered [[North America]]—more specifically, the region that would become [[Newfoundland...
10: ... the Flat Stones"), probably the present day [[Baffin Island]]. Next he came to a land that was flat a...
29: ...ifericsson1.html A reconstructed portrait of Leif Ericsson] – Based on historical sources, in a contem... - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...pe]]. It is bordered by [[Norway]] on the west, [[Finland]] on the northeast, the [[Skagerrak]] Strait...
3: The official [[list of Swedish monarchs]] starts about a 1...
5: ...he early [[20th century]]. The country is today defined by liberal tendencies and a strong national qu...
18: official_languages = Swedish (''[[de facto]]'') <sup>2...
65: Sweden was first mentioned in the [[1st century]], by Roman his... - Viking Age (10637 bytes)
6: ...ys of north-western Europe. [[Rurik]] founded the first [[Russia]]n state with a capital at [[Novgorod...
10: ...scendants of these Viking settlers not only identified themselves as French, but carried the French la...
17: ...owever, had well-defended coasts and heavily fortified ports and harbours. Pure thirst for adventure m...
19: ...ume that the Varangians themselves travelled significantly beyond Byzantium and the Caspian Sea.
25: ...nce dwindled until 1066 when the Danes lost their final battle with the English. See also [[Danelaw]] - Propeller (12179 bytes)
1: A '''propeller''' can be seen as a rotating [[fin]] in water or a [[wing]] in air. The horizontal ...
6: ...large portion of the blade is therefore at an inefficient angle, the inboard ends of the blade are sub...
9: ...k. Advanced control systems and better section profiling are required to counter the need for accurate...
11: ...e aircraft to back up on its own at unimproved airfields when aircraft tractors are unavailable.
13: ...eases [[fuel]] consumption. It is, therefore, beneficial to run an engine at an optimum constant indep... - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
10: ...Siemens AG|Siemens]], [[SK Teletech]], and [[Sony Ericsson]].
16: ...twork costs are mostly call volume related, while fixed-line telephony has a much higher subscriber re...
18: ...]30), and the availability of relatively low-cost fixed-line networks (around $30 for unlimited local ...
24: ...the carrier will put the customer's handset identifier into its subscriber database so that the handse...
32: ...ures aimed toward personalisation, such as user defined and downloadable [[ring tone]]s and [[operator...
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