They say that in 1720, a Brazilian Jesuit, named Bartholomew Gusmao, possessed of abilities, imagination, and address, by permission of John V. fabricated a balloon in a place contiguous to the Royal Palace, and one day, in presence of their Majesties, and an immense crowd of spectators, raised himself, by means of a fire lighted in the machine, as high as the cornice of the building ; but through the negligence and want of experience of those who held the cords, the machine took an oblique direction, and, touching the cornice, burst and fell.

A scandal was about to burst out with Nagant threatening he would not participate in trials held in Russia ever again and some involved officials proposing to expel Nagant from any further trials as he borrowed the design of the " interrupter " after it was covered by the " secrecy " status given in Russia of that time to military inventions and therefore violated Russian law.

I think it was a kind of everything held in ; and when I left Ojai it all burst.

Mainly for safety reasons, water balloon walls are designed to be thick enough to be held without bursting yet thin enough to burst upon impact.

He withdrew from the main body some 300 men who had followed Meleager at the time when he burst from the first meeting held after Alexander's death, and before the eyes of the entire army he threw them to the elephants.

* Papius Mutilus burst into southern Campania and won over many towns and held them until defeated by Caesar

( The burst can be held or stored in the ring at energy to give the experimental electronics time to work, but the average output current is still limited.

In producing an ejective, the stylohyoid muscle and digastric muscle contract — causing the hyoid bone and the connected glottis to raise — while the forward articulation ( at the velum in the case of ) is held, raising air pressure greatly in the mouth, so that when the oral articulators separate, there is a dramatic burst of air.

Uesugi Kenshin himself burst into the headquarters, attacking Takeda Shingen who, unprepared for such an event, parried with his signalling fan as best as he could, and held Kenshin off long enough for one of his retainers, Hara Osumi-no-Kami, to spear Kenshin's mount and drive him off.

The Austrian, German and Ottoman advance paused after finding the gullies held by the light horsemen, but at about 01: 00, a sudden heavy burst of fire along the whole front began the attack of the considerably superior Ottoman and German forces, and by 02: 00 they had in many places advanced to within of the Australian line.

A small number of Zulus managed to burst into the laager, and were repelled with bayonets, while the bulk of the advance was held at bay by the steady British musketry and gunfire.

But he still held on, and then with a sudden burst of adrenaline he turned the gun on the enemy soldier and stabbed him in the chest.

Those who bought when low and sold high profited, while those who bought high and sold low ( after the bubble has burst ) or held until the price fell lost money.

As soon as Spyridon finished speaking, the sherd is said to have miraculously burst into flame, water dripped on the ground, and only dust remained in his hand ( other accounts of this event say that it was a brick he held in his hand ).

The dogs would run through the halls after him like a burst of bullets, and all the maids would run for cover.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

Food is consumed and transferred to points ( an increasing scale of 1000 points is awarded for each enemy burst in tandem with another meaning: one enemy burst equals one food item worth 1000 points, two enemies burst equals two food items worth 1000 and 2000 points, three enemies burst equals three food items worth 1000, 2000, and 4000 points, and so on ) which results in more lives.

In a later time, when the Chaldean tribe had burst their narrow bonds and obtained the ascendency over all Babylonia, they gave their name to the whole land of Babylonia, which then was called Chaldea for a short time.

* Transfer protocols: Standard and fast serial ; burst mode ; and commands for parallel interface ( the latter not used )

Like the 1571, its built-in DOS provided a data burst mode for transferring data to the C128 computer at a faster speed than a 1541.

Following an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in his ear and burst ; he endured intense pain for a week and died at 2am on 18 January 1873 just short of his 70th birthday.

In the United Kingdom, the 1979 Mod revival brought with it a burst of fresh creativity from fanzines, and for the next decade, the youth subculture inspired the production of dozens of independent publications.

Black powder is well suited for blank rounds, signal flares, burst charges, and rescue-line launches.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

He labored for five years, until he was forced to leave because he burst a blood vessel lifting a heavy barrel.

* Brightness and contrast ratio: Contrast ratio is the ratio of the brightness of a full-on pixel to a full-off pixel and, as such, would be directly tied to brightness if not for the invention of the blinking backlight ( or burst dimming ).

This also occurs on the administration of a rapid burst of electrical stimuli ( 20 impulses per second for ten seconds ).

The M16 ( officially Rifle, Caliber 5. 56 mm, M16 ) is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle adapted for semi-automatic, three-round burst and full-automatic fire.

This also allows some manufacturers to provide secondary pressure containment as an extra precaution for pressure equipment safety if the burst pressure of the primary pressure sensing diaphragm is exceeded.

A machine pistol is a handgun-style, often magazine-fed and self-loading firearm, capable of fully automatic or burst fire, and normally chambered for pistol cartridges.

It is a 9 mm, 18-round, double action only, semi-automatic / three-round burst capable polymer frame pistol manufactured by German arms firm Heckler & Koch GmbH ; the VP designation stands for Volkspistole (" The people's pistol "), and the designation 70 was for the year of the first edition: 1970.

Its tail fin is mainly used as a rudder, but it can be used for a sudden evasive burst of speed that shows none of the care and precision of its usual movements.

The specific mechanisms of LTP are unknown at the moment, but NMDA receptors crucial for the burst firing required, and dopamine plays a very important role in medating basal ganglic, thus hippocampal and memory activity ( which is much more complex, involving neurogenesis and LTD as well ).

Some neurons emit action potentials constantly, at rates of 10 – 100 per second, usually in irregular patterns ; other neurons are quiet most of the time, but occasionally emit a burst of action potentials.

A second girl then burst in, whom you would have recognized as.

A 440 Hz tone is applied to the line for 2 seconds, followed by a 0. 5 second burst every 10 seconds, to alert both parties that the attendant is connected to the circuit.

There are reports of " super-EMP " nuclear weapons that are able to overcome the 50, 000 volt per metre limit by the very nearly instantaneous release of a burst of gamma radiation of much higher energy levels than are known to be produced by second generation nuclear weapons.

* Lammas growth a second burst of growth late in the growing season exhibited by some trees.

The second element has been connected to either a PIE * nogʷo -, either " naked, nude " or " tree ", or with the verbal root * nebh-" burst out, be damp ".

Sonic can perform a split second " shield " move that provides both burst of protection and expands his attack range.

The first burst tends to accelerate to the escape speed, which is times the circular orbit speed, and the second tends to zero.

The second stage burst and was destroyed by the laser blast.

Instead of delivering one burst of light, the units deliver several smaller bursts over a time interval as short as 1 / 125 of a second.

In the England v Argentina quarter-final at that tournament Reid was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal.

The header is an AFSK data burst, with each individual bit lasting 1920 μs ( 1. 92 ms ) each, giving a bit rate of 520 bits per second.

They would also be unstable enough to explode in a burst of particles within around a billion-billion-billionth of a second ( 10 < sup >− 27 </ sup > of a second ).

Elders burst into the new millennium by taking a controlling position in the German wool processor BWK, the world ’ s second largest wool tops maker with operations in Europe and Australia.

Hoddle was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal in England's 2 – 1 defeat.

He was still the first-choice left back for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, playing in all of the matches up to and including the quarter final defeat against Argentina, in which game he was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal.

Tartan's gas line ( pressurised to 120 Atmospheres ) melted and burst, releasing 15-30 tonnes of gas every second, which immediately ignited.

A Midsummer Night's Dream may have been the first play Shakespeare wrote for the new company ; it was followed over the next two years by a concentrated burst of creativity that resulted in Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labours Lost, The Merchant of Venice, and the plays in the so-called second tetralogy.

Line 21 begins with ‘ Of some fierce Maenad ...’ ( l. 21 ) and again the west wind is part of the second canto of the poem ; here he is two things at once: first he is ‘ dirge / Of the dying year ’ ( l. 23f ) and second he is “ a prophet of tumult whose prediction is decisive ”; a prophet who does not only bring ‘ black rain, and fire, and hail ’ ( l. 28 ), but who ‘ will burst ’ ( l. 28 ) it.

" At 1: 27 while everyone was still searching sky for the B-17s six 300-pound bombs suddenly burst at split second intervals on the deck of the battleship, and it was at least 30 seconds later before someone spotted the B-17 at 12, 000 feet.

23 minutes after engine shut down, the R2 door ( second door on the right side ) was opened by ground personnel, whereupon the aircraft burst into flames, and was consumed by fire.