Modern airframe history began in the United States when a 1903 wood biplane made by Orville and Wilbur Wright showed the potential of fixed-wing designs.

In the Art Modern period following World War II, jewelry designs became more traditional and understated.

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Modern designs call for compact weapons retaining firepower.

Modern designs ( Sarich and Paggio ) use air-assisted fuel injection, which avoids this loss and provides more efficiency than comparably sized four-stroke engines.

Modern designs tend to have a very wide beam and a flat bottom aft, to provide buoyancy preventing an excessive heel angle and to promote surfing and planning.

Modern designs may also include a steerable nozzle for guidance, avionics, recovery hardware ( parachutes ), self-destruct mechanisms, APUs, controllable tactical motors, controllable divert and attitude control motors, and thermal management materials.

Modern Hall thrusters have achieved efficiencies as high as 75 % through advanced designs.

The original designs are part of the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

Modern airliners are usually low-wing designs with two engines mounted in underwing pods.

Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters ( Mediavilla 1996 ).

Modern Spiritualists often have art or jewelry with sunflower designs.

Modern high performance CPU chip designs incorporate aspects of both Harvard and von Neumann architecture.

Modern monocoque designs include a virtual keel.

Modern designs allow performance approaching the theoretical maximum Carnot efficiency and the largest built in 1999 by the USA generated 250 kW.

Modern hollowpoint bullet designs use many different methods to provide controlled expansion, including:

Modern circuit designs are generally developed using a schematic capture and simulation system, and tested in software simulation before the first prototype circuits are built on a printed circuit board.

Modern designs are little different from the first folding field cameras from the 19th century.

Modern designs use either aluminium or silver.

Modern technology has improved component and frame designs, and many tandems are as well-built as modern high-end road and off-road bikes.

Modern designs, like their traditional counterparts, gain significant stability when heavily laden amidships.

Modern consumer embroidery machines quickly stitch appliqué designs by following a program.

Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters ( Mediavilla 1996 ).

Six of them are now Grade II listed buildings and all are now very sought after. Further houses mostly of contemporary flat-roofed designs were built in 1934 / 35 for a " Modern Homes " Exhibition in Heath Drive, Brook Road, Eastern Avenue, one by Lubetkin is now Grade II listed.

Modern hoses are also lighter weight than older designs, and this has helped reduce the physical strain on firefighters.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

Modern battles now continue to resemble that of World War II, though prominent innovations have been added.

Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.

" Ten Thousand Dollars A Page " was filmed at the Pasadena Art Museum, later known as the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art and now the Norton Simon Museum of Art.

Camille's great-grandson, Joachim Pissarro, is former Head Curator of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and is now a professor in Hunter College's Art Department.

Modern theatrical improvisation is generally accepted to have taken form in the improvisational acting exercises developed by Viola Spolin in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, now known as Theater Games.

Yatsuhashi Kengyo is now known as the " Father of Modern Koto ".

Modern synthetic materials ( often Dacron ) are now commonly used for strings.

He grew up on the family's pastoral properties and was educated at Glamorgan ( now part of Geelong Grammar School ) and Melbourne Grammar School, before completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics (" Modern Greats ") at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1952, where he became friendly with future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.

Modern day Pakistan was conquered by Chandragupta Maurya, who overthrew the powerful Nanda Dynasty of Magadha and established Maurya empire: He conquered the trans-Indus region to the west, which was under Macedonian rule-annexing Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces-and then defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Greek general from Alexander's army.

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

Modern gnutella implementations, Gnutella2, as well as the now deprecated Kazaa network are examples of the hybrid model.

In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic " as if no one had written on these matters before ".

Many historians now prefer to use the term " Early Modern " for this period, a more neutral designation that highlights the period as a transitional one between the Middle Ages and the modern era.

Modern historians are sceptical of some of its claims: one of Rhygyfarch's aims was to establish some independence for the Welsh church, which had refused the Roman rite until the 8th century and now sought a metropolitan status equal to that of Canterbury.

Modern six-days last less than 12 hours a day and the madison is now only a featured part, so staying on the track throughout is more feasible.

Modern installations of such equipment may use mice instead, since most people now already know how to use one.

" The now forgotten significance of Paley can be judged from the title of Birks 1874 work Modern Utilitarianism or the Systems of Paley, Bentham and Mill Examined and Compared.

When the third Caliph Uthman began noticing slight differences in pronunciation of the Quranic Arabic by those whose dialect was not that of the Quraish, he sought Hafsa's permission to use her text and commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of Quran to which added diacritical marks ensured correct pronunciation, and to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect, now known as Fus ' ha ( Modern Standard Arabic ) ( see Origin and development of the Quran ).

Modern DNA fingerprinting research at University of California, Davis, now suggests that Chardonnay is the result of a cross between the Pinot and Gouais Blanc ( Heunisch ) grape varieties.

Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).

Modern navigation systems now minimise the dangers but in the past the stormy seas have claimed many ships.

Modern competitions on this level frequently now employ a moving background to specifically track multiple shots through the same hole.