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In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave conducted research on wing structures and developed a box kite that lifted the weight of a man.
Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave ( inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884 ) and French Captain Saconney.
Australian Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite and dedicated his life to constructing flying machines.
* The box kite ( 1893 ), which greatly improved the lift to drag ratio of early gliders.
This experiment was widely reported and established the box kite as a stable aerial platform.
Diagram of a box kite
Hargrave ( left ) and Swain demonstrate the Hargrave box kite, November 1894.
A box kite is a high performance kite, noted for developing relatively high lift ; it is a type within the family of cellular kites.
The ribbons wrap around the ends of the box, leaving the ends and middle of the kite open.
The box kite was invented by Lawrence Hargrave, an Englishman who emigrated to Australia in 1893, as part of his attempt to develop a manned flying machine.
Most of the altitude records for kite flying are held by large box kites, with Dacron sails, flown with Spectra cable.
Financed by his shows, Cody patented his famous design in 1901, a winged variation of Lawrence Hargrave's double-cell box kite.
The radio included a balloon with water-activated hydrogen inflator and a fold-up / down metal frame box kite for which the flying line was an aerial wire.
* Neil MacDermid is carried aloft in Canada by a large box kite named The Siamese Twins, designed by Alexander Graham Bell.
: The Australian inventor of the box kite linked four of his kites together, added a sling seat, and flew 16 feet ( 4. 9 m ).
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The Sierpinski triangle # Analogs in higher dimension | Sierpinski pyramid, a three dimensional fractal, resembles a tetrahedral kite. A tetrahedral kite is a multicelled rigid box kite composed of tetrahedrally shaped cells to create a kind of tetrahedral truss.

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Minivans are typically either two-box or one box designs for maximum interior volume – and are taller than a sedan, hatchback, or a station wagon.
These can be generally classified into classic wooden, laminated wood, laminated metal and fibreglass, torsion box, and cap designs.
Over time, materials for both the core and torsion box have changed, with wood, various plastic foams, fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fiber all being used in different designs.
Torsion box designs continue to dominate cross-country ski designs, but is less common for alpine and ski touring.
This strategy turned out to be so successful and recognizable to their brand that they phased out nearly all of their other Crayola line box designs to adapt to the gold medal format, which appeared on their packaging for the next 50-plus years.
Three different box designs
This copyright, however, only covers new material added to the preexisting work ( for example, designs on the card backs and the box ).
As box designs were changed regularly, some boxes or even model / box combinations were produced in lower quantities, and thus became quite difficult to find.
The lenses are often single element designs meniscus fixed focus lens, or in better quality box cameras a doublet lens with minimal ( if any ) possible adjustments to the aperture or shutter speeds.
The introduction of the KODAK camera in 1888 was the first " box " camera to become widely adopted by the public and its design became the archetype for box camera designs introduced by many different manufacturers.
However, Farr's Volvo Ocean Race boats fared less well in 2006 as all four of his designs experienced problems after various failures in their Farr-designed keel canting mechanisms, including an abandonment of the yacht Movistar which was unable to prevent the flow of water through the keel box and, to this day, lies on the ocean floor, unrecovered.
Vehicle designs include a cargo area consisting of a steel tube carrier, an open or enclosed box, a flat platform, or a wire basket.
However, other designs, such as inflatable mini-dinghy, planche ( box ), Tommy Botha ( big game ) and body-boards are also used.
Since the process is legally required, most processes have documents or software to trace requirements from numbered paragraphs in the specifications and designs to exact pieces of code, with exact tests for each, and a box on the final certification checklist.
At this time, he also worked for another video game company, Kure Software Koubou, producing box cover illustrations as well as some character designs.
The Lee rifle's detachable box magazine was invented by James Paris Lee, and would be very influential on later rifle designs.
There were six different box designs ( each representing an affiliation: Bajoran, Borg, Cardassian, Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ).
Many designs have increased portability by shrinking the altazimuth ( rocker box ) mount down to a small rotating platform.
These designs also employed the " rocker box " mount listed above.
By 1638, Jacques Boyceau described the range of designs in box a gardener should be able to provide
Most lever-action designs are not as strong as bolt-action or semi-automatic designs, and as a result lever-action rifles tend to be generally found in low-and medium-pressure cartridges such as. 30-30 Winchester or. 44 Magnum, although the Marlin Model 1894 is available in three high-pressure magnum calibers ; and the Winchester Model 1895, which used a box magazine, was chambered for. 30-06 and other powerful military cartridges.

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However, the tracks were nonetheless included in the compilation box set Rock ' n ' Roll Arrives released by Bear Family Records in 2006.
It earned less at the box office than his previous features and received mixed reviews ; some viewers were displeased with Chaplin's politicising.
This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.
There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.
This made other display modes possible, but only the aforementioned modes were supported originally out of the box.
According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".
Les Girls ( 1957 ) won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Wild Is the Wind ( 1957 ) earned Oscar nominations for Anna Magnani and Anthony Quinn, but neither Heller in Pink Tights nor Let's Make Love ( both 1960 ) were box office hits.
Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.
The slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween and Child's Play all saw sequels in the 1990s, most of which met with varied amounts of success at the box office, but all were panned by fans and critics, with the exception of Wes Craven's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) and the hugely successful Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).
Sixty seats were provided free of charge to service personnel ; the remaining were sold to the public, with the box office proceeds donated to wartime charities.
Belts were either held in the open by the person, or in a bag or box.
Joseph Smith, Jr. ( who would later become the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ) said that on the night of September 21, 1823, Moroni appeared to Smith and told him about the Golden Plates that were buried ( in a stone box ) a few miles from Smith's home ; visited Smith various times over the course of the next six years ; and after Smith translated a portion of the writing on the plates ( either one-third or two-thirds ; accounts vary ) as the Book of Mormon, Smith turned the plates back over to Moroni.
Set fooled Osiris into getting into a box, which Set then shut, sealed with lead, and threw into the Nile ( sarcophagi were based on the box in this myth ).
These packages were crucially important as they made the operational amplifier into a single black box which could be easily treated as a component in a larger circuit.
Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.
In 1948, the keeper Bernard Ashmole received thirty-seven fragments in a box from Mr. Croker of Putney, who did not know what they were.
Three series of A Year at Kew were filmed in the gardens for BBC television and released on DVD, including a box set of all three series.
Only two publications were ever published, the Ringworld role-playing game box set itself, and the Ringworld Companion, both in 1984 by Chaosium.
With the release of the " Alternate Realities " box set, remastered Original Series episodes were included in a multi-series compilation for the first time.
In retrospect, it was a damaging career move as Deliverance and Jeremiah Johnson, critical and enduring box office hits, were in development at the time and Peckinpah was considered the first choice to direct both films.
Promoted as a Steve McQueen action vehicle, reviews were mixed and the film performed poorly at the box office.
The box diagrams ( blue ) were invented right for the new theory, and you can see here their equivalents in the mostly used control flow charts.
They later found out that they were carrying box cutters and used those to threaten people with.

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