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- List of musical instruments (9508 bytes)
2: ...trolled by a [[musician]], can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to item...
4: The academic study of musical instruments is called ''[[organology]]''.
6: Instruments are often divided by the way in which they gener...
8: ...into [[Brass instruments|Brass]] and [[Woodwind]] instruments.
10: ...nating cavity, if any, determine the sound of the instrument. - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
8: ... collapsing Yuan Dynasty. Zhu became one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[pea...
16: ... the office of prime minister and so removed the only insurance against incompetent emperors. Hongwu ...
27: ...gLacquerTable1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|This is the only surviving example in the world of a major piece ...
33: ...o 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly [[silk]]s and porcelains, and brought back forei...
35: ... and unprecedented strength, Zheng He's voyages, unlike European voyages of exploration later in the f... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
7: ...]]s with overlapping fields of view to detect [[sunlight]] reflected from passing [[meteoroid]]s, seal...
11: ...as operated on a backup transmitter since launch. Instrument power sharing began in [[February]] [[1985]] due ... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
14: ... far outstripped the capabilities of any previous instruments. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl...
53: ...d's Elements]]. This theory had become available only a century before, thanks to accurate translation... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...[orbit]]s (such as those of [[comet]]s) were not only [[ellipse|elliptic]], but could also be [[hyperb...
36: ... primarily to the wider diameter of the mirror. (Only later, as glasses with a variety of refractive p...
73: ...om [[1689]] to [[1690]] and in [[1701]], but his only recorded comments were to complain about a cold ...
95: ...rsity. His writings on this topic were published only posthumously.
107: .... Newton was notable in that scene for being the only scientist without a sense of humor. He also took... - Microscope (8708 bytes)
1: ...ce]] of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called [[microscopy]], and the term '''microsc...
3: ...or more [[Lens (optics)|lenses]] that produce an enlarged image of an object placed in the focal plane...
8: ... with multiple lenses, is a microscope that uses only one lens for magnification. [[Anton van Leeuwenh...
34: ...to examine a smear, a squash preparation, or a thinly sectioned slice of some material. With a few exc...
54: ...mself halfway the 17th century. The date is certainly not likely, as it has been shown that Zacharias ... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...ar I|two world wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...y]] Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 August]]...
8: ...c weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are only a few of many [[Technology during World War II|w...
20: ...ing and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
24: ...iendly," despite the fact that neither country openly proclaimed any alliances. Such situations allowe... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
5: [[Image:Vietcong.jpg|thumb|right|[[NLF]] casualties during the [[Vietnam War]]. After t...
42: ...t created weapons with superior effectiveness, mainly due to their lead in digital computers and reluc...
64: ...hina]]) which outlined the terms for a [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japanese surrender]].
65: ...tions and evasions. ''When the [[USSR]] was the only member State who refused to sign, the US embarke... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
13: ...nal [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
71: ...re locked in a cycle of [[debt]], from which the only hope of escape was increased planting. This led ...
80: ... four-year span. To make matters worse, the [[McKinley Tariff of 1890]] was one of the highest the cou...
86: ... of work and destroying the industrial economy. Only the gold standard, they said, offered stability.
91: ...the election -- to the Republican's [[William McKinley]]. - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ...fluence well into the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] period. Locke has been placed in a gr...
12: ...d the advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an operati...
24: ...e believed, the national church could serve as an instrument for social harmony.
37: ...essary; this can be created only by consent, and only to a commonwealth of laws. As law is sometimes ...
45: ...s would own 40 percent of the colony's land, and only a baron could be governor. When the crown took d... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
3: ...uring the daytime, making it one of only two heavenly bodies that can be seen both day and night (the ...
7: The adjective ''Venusian'' is commonly used for Venus, but it is etymologically incorre...
14: ...nds in the upper atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat.
16: ...ght back into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bol...
18: ... of force against obstructions. The clouds are mainly composed of [[sulfur dioxide]] and [[sulfuric ac... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...measuring [[time]]. A clock is usually a physical instrument, an especially accurate one is called a [[chrono...
43: ...anical timekeeper had been developed that lacked only an [[escapement]] mechanism. There is a record t...
47: ...[Nuremberg]] and [[Augsburg]]. These clocks have only one hand. The dial between the hour markers is d... - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
20: ...s horizontal movement. The press sometimes mistakenly reports such values as "Richter magnitude", and ...
22: ...ic Northwest Seismograph Network]] that shows the instrument recorded [[intensity]] of the shaking of the [[Ni...
31: ...lated to gas movement in the earth's interior, mainly methane (see related topics [[http://www.people....
70: ...rge (6.0), but the most anticipated and intensely instrumented earthquake ever recorded and likely to offer in...
117: *[http://www.armageddononline.org/earthquake.php The Destruction of Earthqua... - Prostate (3581 bytes)
9: ...hormone is [[testosterone]], which is produced mainly by the [[testicle]]s. Some male hormones are pro...
11: Prostate glands are found only in males; [[Skene's gland]]s in females are [[h...
17: ...ection of the prostate (TURP or TUR). In TURP, an instrument is inserted through the urethra to remove prostat... - Organ (anatomy) (814 bytes)
1: ...biology]], an '''organ''' ([[Latin]] ''organum'': instrument, tool) is a group of [[biological tissue|tissues]... - Seismograph (4037 bytes)
6: ...es, but those on the other side of the Earth can only record P waves.
14: ...nerally prefer a vertical seismograph if only one instrument is possible.
36: ...o piers, which will change when a wave passes the instrument. - Compass (8275 bytes)
3: ...'' (or '''mariner's compass''') is a navigational instrument for finding directions. It consists of a magnetis...
5: ...undial]]. A '''variation compass''' is a specific instrument of a delicate type of construction. It is used by...
30: ...ng or striking it. However, this method produces only a weak magnet so other methods are preferred. Th... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
23: ..., following a violent quarrel about "a scientific instrument", he left France for [[Germany]].
35: ...is theological beliefs were also a factor. Also, unlike Galileo, he refused to renounce his beliefs.
47: ...ental]] [[God]], not part of the universe, a motionless [[prime mover]] and [[first cause]].
55: ...n of the planetary spheres, considered Earth the only possible realm of [[life]] and [[death]], and a ...
57: ...eavens, an immanent God rather than a remote heavenly deity. - Pliers (2624 bytes)
15: In technical terms, pliers are an instrument that converts a power grip, the curling of the fi...
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