The result was the P-1 Explorer, designed by Abrams with assistance from Kenneth Ronan of Ronan & Kunzl.

* Abrams P-1 Explorer, an American aerial survey aircraft

* 1936 – Floyd Abrams, American attorney

* 1912 – M. H. Abrams, American critic and writer

* 1924 – Cal Abrams, American baseball player ( d. 1997 )

* 1978 – Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist

* 1914 – Creighton Abrams, American general ( d. 1974 )

* 1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American musician, composer, and educator

** Creighton Williams Abrams, American general ( b. 1914 )

* June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer

Albert Abrams ( 1863 – 1924 ) was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease.

In Abrams ' view, American medicine was dominated by physicians with excessive admiration for German doctors and researchers.

The dispute between Abrams and his followers and the American Medical Association ( AMA ) was intensified.

Scientific American magazine decided to investigate Dr. Abrams ' claims.

Scientific American was interested in the matter as readers were writing letters to the editor saying that Abrams ' revolutionary machines were one of the greatest inventions of the century and so needed to be discussed in the pages of the magazine.

Scientific American assembled a team of investigators who worked with a senior Abrams associate given the pseudonym " Doctor X ".

It seems likely that Doctor X honestly believed in his Abrams machines ; in fact, he allowed the Scientific American investigators to observe his procedure.

* Ayers, Dianne, American Arts and Crafts Textiles, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2002 ISBN 0-8109-0434-9

The U. S. Army uses reactive armour on its Abrams tanks as part of the TUSK ( Tank Urban Survivability Kit ) package and on Bradley vehicles and the Israelis use it frequently on their American built M-60 tanks.

Books such as The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability and the 25th Amendment, by Herbert Abrams, and Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, argue Reagan's intent to transfer power to Bush was clear.

The American M1 Abrams would be the first main battle tank in production with turbine engines, in 1980.

Chobham-type armour is currently in its third generation and is used on modern western tanks such as the British Challenger 2 and the American M1 Abrams.

) Eastern-supplied until 1979, Egypt now received American weaponry such as the M1A1 Abrams Tank, AH-64 Apache gunship and the F-16 fighter jet.

An American M1 Abrams of the pre-series, the first main battle tank type to be protected by Chobham armour

In 1998 Perle led an effort known as the Project for the New American Century with close neoconservative allies Wolfowitz, Woolsey, Elliott Abrams, and John Bolton.

Abrams ' new " One War " policy centered the American effort on the takeover of the fighting by the South Vietnamese ( through Vietnamization ), the pacification of the countryside, and the destruction of communist logistics.

Abrams had founded an airline ( ABC Airline ) in 1929 but found himself increasingly interested in aerial photography.

Talbert " Ted " Abrams ( August 17, 1895, Tekonsha, Michigan – August 26, 1990 ) was an American photographer and aviator known as the " father of aerial photography ".

Following World War I, his squadron took photos of rebel activities on Haiti, and Abrams became interested in the potential of aerial photography.

Every year, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ( ASPRS ) presents the Talbert Abrams Award to a person who makes an outstanding contribution to aerial photography and mapping.

Under Abrams ' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U. S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation.

Published in 1962, the first edition of The Norton Anthology was based on an English literature survey course Abrams and fellow editor David Daiches taught at Cornell University.

The Abrams Air Craft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer established in Lansing, Michigan in 1937 as an offshoot of Talbert Abrams ' Aerial Survey Corporation.

Over the next few years, he formed the Abrams Instrument Corporation to develop better cameras and instruments for his work, and the Abrams Aircraft Corporation in 1937 to develop specially designed aircraft.

During World War II, he founded the Abrams School of Aerial Surveying and Photo Interpretation to teach these skills to the US military, while his Instrument Corporation built reconnaissance cameras for aircraft.

* The MAGTF area with rotor-wing and tilt-rotor aircraft representing units based at Miramar and nearby Camp Pendleton, and infantry units from Pendleton and other installations demonstrating M1 Abrams tanks, LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicles, support vehicles, artillery systems and infantry weapons ;

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1 Abrams tank.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

J. J. Abrams, producer of the 2008 film Cloverfield, mentioned that a scene in his film, which shows the head of the Statue of Liberty crashing into a New York street, was inspired by the poster for Escape from New York.

The United States ' XM360, which is planned to equip the Future Combat Systems Mounted Combat System light tank and may be the M1 Abrams ' next gun upgrade, is reportedly based on the XM291 and may include ETC technology, or portions of ETC technology.

In affirming the lower courts decision to dismiss, Justice Abrams wrote: " Although Korb has a secured right to speak out on matters of public concern, and he has a right to express views with which Raytheon disagrees, he has no right to do so at Raytheon's expense.

When General Abrams mentioned the cavalry's concerns over the new vehicle, Patton recommended that the Sheridans be combat tested by a divisional cavalry squadron and a squadron from his own regiment ; both of which had completely different missions.

Main battle tanks of the late 20th century such as the successful M1 Abrams tank fielded improved conventional 105mm and 120mm guns which proved effective against enemy armor threats.

In the USA, ECT devices are manufactured by two companies, Somatics, which is owned by psychiatrists Richard Abrams and Conrad Swartz, and Mecta.

The Court continued to use the bad tendency test during the early twentieth century in cases such as 1919's Abrams v. United States which upheld the conviction of anti-war activists who passed out leaflets encouraging workers to impede the war effort.

In Abrams, Holmes and Justice Brandeis dissented and encouraged the use of the clear and present test, which provided more protection for speech .< ref > Killian, p. 1094. Rabban, p 346 .</ br > Redish, p 102 .</ ref > In 1925's Gitlow v. New York, the Court extended the First Amendment to the states, and upheld the conviction of Gitlow for publishing the " Left Wing Manifesto ".

Pine recalled having difficulty with his audition, which required him " to bark Trek jargon '", but his charisma impressed director J. J. Abrams.

He called this ERA, for Electronic Reactions of Abrams, and introduced a number of different machines which he claimed were based on these principles.

Abrams came up with new and even more impressive gadgets, the " Oscilloclast " and the " Radioclast ", which came with tables of frequencies that were designed to " attack " specific diseases.

According to one scholar, this " was not only a dramatic change in the function of art, it was the context in which our present concept of art, what the literary critic M. H. Abrams called " art as such ", first began to take shape ", replacing a " construction model " where art theory concerned itself with how the maker created his work, with a " contemplation model " concerned with the effect of the finished work on a " lone perceiver " or viewer.

" He was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also included Creighton Abrams and Benjamin O. Davis Jr .. Westmoreland graduated as first captain-the highest graduating rank-and received the Pershing Sword, which is given to the most able cadet at the academy.

The downsides to the Heng Long imitations are that they were standardized to their Type 90 tank which has 6 road wheels, then they produced a Leopard 2 and M1A2 Abrams on the same chassis but both of the tanks have 7 road wheels.

Lost creator and Star Trek director J. J. Abrams claimed the episode as his favorite, saying, " episode is a beautiful demonstration of the burden of adulthood, told in The Twilight Zone, which everyone thinks is a scary show, but it's actually a beautiful show ," and " The Twilight Zone at its best is better than anything else I've ever seen on television.

A parody of the popular western drama The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams — retitled Grizzly Abrams — depicted the burly wilderness hero as the owner of a wild tortoise which took weeks to lead police to the skeletal remains of its master, trapped beneath a fallen log.

The latest version of Chobham armour is used on the Challenger 2 ( called Dorchester armour ), and ( though the composition most probably differs ) the M1 Abrams series of tanks, which according to official sources is currently protected by silicon carbide tiles.

One specific design requirement was that it should be as fast as the then new M1 Abrams main battle tank so that they could maintain formations while moving, something which the older M113 Armored Personnel Carrier could not do, as it had been designed to complement the older M60 Patton.

In 1971, M. H. Abrams, in A Glossary of Literary Terms, notes that the term has undergone a relative diminishment of form and defines pathetic fallacy as “ a common phenomenon in descriptive poetry, in which the ascription of human traits to inanimate nature is less formally managed than in the figure called personification .”

This reduces the total number of rounds that need to be carried for different roles, which is particularly important for modern tanks like the M1 Abrams, due to the sheer size of 120 mm rounds used.