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- Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
10: ...ause she was black and a woman. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, a...
16: ...instantly. Wills also died. Neither was using a parachute. - Textile (4228 bytes)
74: *[[Balloon]]s, [[kite]]s, [[sail]]s, [[parachute]]s and other [[transport]] use. Early [[airplane]... - Silk (8683 bytes)
11: ...ire]] knew of and traded in silk, the secret was only to reach Europe around AD [[550]], via the [[Byz...
25: ... outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ...ore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-quality saris given...
33: ..., ostensibly to discourage [[tobacco]] planting. Only the [[Shakers]] in Kentucky adopted the practice...
40: http://www.islamonline.net/fatwa/english/FatwaDisplay.asp?hFatwaID=61... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]]
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
155: * [[1785]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Jean Pierre Blanchard]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]] - Sun (20830 bytes)
135: [[Image:SunLayers.png|thumb|left|220px|Structure of the Sun]]
147: The core is the only part of the Sun where an appreciable amount of h...
162: ...space and its energy escapes the Sun entirely. Sunlight has a [[black-body]] spectrum that is charact...
168: It is about 4,000 [[kelvin]]s. It is the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple mo...
181: ...produced by the nuclear reactions in the Sun was only one third of the number predicted by theory, a r... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
17: ...to be made so as to accomplish that which we can only suggest. Yet there are sufficient proofs and exa...
23: ...pg|thumb|300px|Sir [[George Cayley]]'s governable parachute]]
53: ... occurred on [[July 2]], [[1900]]. It lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1 was forced to land on the la...
57: ...W) as he expected. Langley's assistant, Charles Manly, then reworked the design into a five-cylinder w...
61: ...as "wing warping". Although this method was used only briefly during the history of aviation, it worke... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
113: *[[Robert Heinlein]], (1907-1988), waterbed
132: ...Gleb Kotelnikov]] - [[Russia]]n inventor of the [[parachute]].
219: ...t Vrančić]] (1551-1617), [[Croatia]], [[parachute]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
117: ...[[1617]] - [[Faust Vrancic]], Croatian inventor [[Parachute]] (b. [[1551]]) - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
6: ...he wind, the passengers feel absolutely no wind, unless they rise or descend to a different altitude t...
26: ...loon generally has a flap (often referred to as a parachute) of fabric that can be pulled open partially to r... - Avalanche (25211 bytes)
58: ... to occur, but deadly if it does). Stop or camp only in safe locations. Wear warm gear to delay hypo...
65: ...nt of victims buried in the open are killed, and only 80 percent of the victims remaining on the surfa...
68: * very rapidly from 92% within 15 minutes to only 30% after 35 minutes (victims die of [[suffocati...
79: ...simple - an aprox. 10m long, red cord (similar to parachute cord) is attached to the persons belt. While skii...
84: ... require specialized search equipment that might only be found near an organized sports area. - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
22: ...]s, and [[flash flood]]s are to be expected. Not only does this result in severe property damage for t...
63: ...more resources are required. Hand tools are commonly used to construct firebreaks and remove fuels ar...
65: ...ote, firefighters known as [[smokejumper]]s may [[parachute]] into site from fixed-wing [[aircraft]]. In add...
73: ... very severe, large fires, this is sometimes the only possible action. Protecting houses is regarded ... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
31: * [[1785]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Jean Pierre Blanchard]] - Space Shuttle program (41074 bytes)
1: ... featured an orange fuel tank, painted in primer only to conserve over 500kg in weight.]]
4: ...ce Shuttle in the context of the ISS program, as only very small amounts of experimental material, har...
20: ...ace Station and Shuttle continued on. Eventually only one of them could be saved, so it stood to reaso...
25: ...oment was when NASA, in desperation to see their only remaining project saved, went to the Air Force f...
27: ... (as did NASA), ''and'' land at the launch site (unlike NASA), the spacecraft would also require the a... - Gliding (16947 bytes)
12: ... Aviation]]). However, the ''sport'' of gliding only emerged after the [[World War I|First World War]...
17: ...thus gaining [[potential energy]]. The most commonly used rising masses of air are [[thermal]]s (updr...
19: ... by aircraft, and dynamic soaring is a technique only really useful to birds, notably to the [[albatro...
23: ...rising higher. During winter the solar heat can only create weak thermals.
27: ...ing works in any [[climate]] or weather, but can only be used in certain locations. Often a combinatio... - Weather balloon (1752 bytes)
1: ...sonde weather balloon just after launch. Notice a parachute in the center of the string and a small instrumen...
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