Anton Drexler ( 13 June 1884 – 24 February 1942 ) was a German far-right political leader of the 1920s, instrumental in the formation of the anti-communist German Workers ' Party.

The German Workers ' Party was the precedent to the Nazi Party, and Drexler served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

Drexler was thereafter moved to the purely symbolic position of honorary president, and left the Party in 1923.

His membership in the NSDAP ended when it was temporarily outlawed in 1923 following the Beer Hall Putsch, in which Drexler had not taken part.

The term clanking replicator was used by Drexler, is informal and is rarely used by others in popular or technical discussions.

The Institute was founded in 1986 by K. Eric Drexler, no longer with the Institute, along with his then wife Christine Peterson, who is now President.

He was an outspoken critic of the idea of molecular assemblers, as advocated by K. Eric Drexler and introduced scientific objections to them.

The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel " Fürstenfelder Hof " on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler, a member of the occultist Thule Society.

Drexler was encouraged to found the DAP by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-Germanist Union ), a director of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, also a member of the Thule Society, and his wish was for a party which was both in touch with the masses and nationalist, unlike the middle class parties.

Following this incident, Anton Drexler was impressed with Hitler's oratory skills and invited him to join the party.

The term grey goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation, stating that " We cannot afford certain types of accidents.

The term was first used by molecular nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler in his book Engines of Creation ( 1986 ).

In 2005, a computer-animated short film of the nanofactory concept was produced by John Burch, in collaboration with Drexler.

The technique of moving single atoms mechanically was proposed by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book The Engines of Creation.

In the same year, Feder, together with Anton Drexler, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer, was also involved in the founding of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (" German worker's party ," DAP ), which would later change its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, more commonly known as the Nazi party.

In February 1920, together with Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler, Feder — who also was a member of the Thule Society — drafted the so-called " 25 points " which summed up the party's views, and introduced his own anti-capitalist views into the program.

Harrer was also a member of the Thule Society, which gave him the task of founding a " Politischer Arbeiterzirkel " (" political workers ' union "), an order he carried out together with Anton Drexler in October 1918.

On January 5, 1919, the DAP was formed, in which not only Harrer and Drexler but also Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart were involved.

The Encyclopedia was written by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, with Debbie Mirek, and illustrated by Doug Drexler.

Margot Elisabeth Dreschel also spelled Drechsler, or Drexler, ( May 17, 1908, Neugersdorf – June 1945, Bautzen ) was a prison guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

He also believed that Drexler ’ s speculations about apocalyptic dangers of molecular assemblers threaten the public support for development of nanotechnology.

It developed out of the " Freien Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden " ( Free Workers ' Committee for a good Peace ) which Drexler had also founded and led.

Technological visionaries such as Eric Drexler and Ralph Merkle, both of whom receive an honorary mention in The Diamond Age, have argued that if nanotechnology develops the ability to manipulate individual atoms at will, it will become possible to simply assemble diamond structures from carbon atoms, materials also known as diamondoids.

Clyde Drexler also laments when watching Peggy shooting a free throw that " if we had her instead of Ainge, we would have won the championship ".

See also Phi Slama Jama, the Cougars teams of the early 1980s that featured current Basketball Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon.

Notable players for the UH Men's basketball team include Basketball Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler ( who would win two and one NBA Championships respectively, both for the hometown Houston Rockets in 1994-95, with Olajuwon being the Finals MVP for both titles ) and also were part of the legendary Cougars fraternity Phi Slama Jama, as well as Otis Birdsong and Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes ( who would win one NBA Championship with the Washington Bullets in 1978 ).

Mickey Drexler, of Gap Inc., became a member of the Board of Directors.

* 1884 – Anton Drexler, German political figure ( d. 1942 )

The 25-point Program was a German adaptation — by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder, and Dietrich Eckart — of Rudolf Jung ’ s Austro – Bohemian program ; unlike the Austrians, the Germans did not claim to being either liberal or democratic, and opposed neither political reaction nor the aristocracy, yet advocated democratic institutions ( i. e. the German central parliament ) and voting rights solely for Germans — implying that a Nazi Government would retain popular suffrage.

The Austrian monarchist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn proposed that the 25-point Program was pro-labour: “ the program championed the right to employment, and called for the institution of profit sharing, confiscation of war profits, prosecution of userers and profiteers, nationalization of trusts, communalization of department stores, extension of the old-age pension system, creation of a national education program of all classes, prohibition of child labour, and an end to the dominance of investment capital .” Whereas historian William Brustein proposes that said program points, and party founder Anton Drexler ’ s statements, indicate that the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) originated as a working-class political party.

In light of this perception of potential danger, the Foresight Institute ( founded by K. Eric Drexler to prepare for the arrival of future technologies ) has drafted a set of guidelines for the ethical development of nanotechnology.

In 1992, Drexler published Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, a detailed proposal for synthesizing stiff covalent structures using a table-top factory.

While Drexler, Merkle and others have created designs of simple parts, no comprehensive design effort for anything approaching the complexity of a Model T Ford has been attempted.

Six Hall of Fame players have played for the Trail Blazers ( Lenny Wilkens, Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Dražen Petrović, Arvydas Sabonis, and Scottie Pippen ).

* Nanotechnology: Drexler and Smalley make the case for and against ' molecular assemblers ' ( Richard Smalley argues that laws of chemistry imply it will be impossible to ever create " self-replicating nanobots " whose abilities to assemble molecules are significantly different than those of biological self-replicators.

This may lead to a molecular assembler, according to some, such as K. Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, and Robert Freitas, and of the potential for integrating vast numbers of assemblers into a kg-scale nanofactory.

Drexler imagines a world where the entire Library of Congress can fit on a chip the size of a sugar cube and where universal assemblers, tiny machines that can build objects atom by atom, will be used for everything from medicinal robots that help clear capillaries to environmental scrubbers that clear pollutants from the air.

Drexler supports a form of the Fermi paradox, arguing that as there is no evidence of alien civilizations, " Thus for now, and perhaps forever, we can make plans for our future without concern for limits imposed by other civilizations.

With the publication of Engines of Creation Drexler founded the first group for preparing society for molecular nanotechnology.

Drexler took the unusual step of securing permission from the publisher to include the post office box for the Foresight Institute, a group that did not yet exist.

Smalley has engaged in open debate with Drexler, attacking the views presented for what he considered both the dubious nature of the science behind them, and the misleading effect on the public's view of nanotechnology.

*** The Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers, both for Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler.

John Eaves was responsible for developing the basic shape of the Raptor-class in concept art ; Doug Drexler later refined Eaves sketches to create a CGI mesh using LightWave 3D.

He and Clyde Drexler share color commentating duties for local Houston Rockets game telecasts alongside long-time play-by-play man Bill Worrell.

His talent for oratory and propaganda soon became evident and, with the support of Anton Drexler, he became chief of propaganda for the party in early 1920.