Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

Modern, methodical composting is a multi-step, closely monitored process with measured inputs of water, air and carbon-and nitrogen-rich materials.

Modern hand-operated community pumps are considered the most sustainable low-cost option for safe water supply in resource-poor settings, often in rural areas in developing countries.

Modern mole ploughs may also bury a flexible perforated plastic drain pipe as they go, making a more permanent drain – or they may be used to lay pipes for water supply or other purposes.

Modern technology has located and increased the availability of much of the underground water.

Modern men's swimsuits are usually briefs, shorts or athletic cut jammers, lycra swim skins, lycra / spandex diveskins or diveskin jeans ( for protection in open water swimming in ocean or lake environments ).

Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, including assisting forests to provide timber as raw material for wood products, wildlife habitat, natural water quality management, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, aesthetically appealing landscapes, biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forests as ' sinks ' for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Modern cake, especially layer cakes, normally contain a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter or oil, with some varieties also requiring liquid ( typically milk or water ) and leavening agents ( such as yeast or baking powder ).

The geology and topography of the village lent itself to urbanisation and domestic industries ; primitive weavers ' cottages, coal pits and stonequarries were propelled by Bacup's natural supply of water power in the Early Modern period.

Modern vessels now use flash-type evaporators to boil sea water, heating the water to between 70-80 ° C and evaporating the water in a vacuum-this is then collected as condensation before being stored.

In 1905, the Spokane Canal Company built a canal to irrigate the Otis Orchard area with water from Newman Lake, and Modern Irrigation and Land Company tapped into the underground aquifer to irrigate 3, 000 acres ( 12 km² ) in Opportunity.

Modern day Aransas Pass is a mecca for water sports, fishing, birding, kayaking, and hunting.

Modern drainage systems which collect runoff from impervious surfaces ( e. g., roofs and roads ) ensure that water is efficiently conveyed to waterways through pipe networks, meaning that even small storm events result in increased waterway flows.

Modern bottles are difficult to sterilize in boiling water because they tend to float.

Modern acrylic paint is water soluble, while Magna is miscible with turpentine or mineral spirits, though both can dry rapidly to a matte or glossy finish.

" Modern explorers and geographers, however, have used the tiniest trickles of water to determine the source of the Amazon, Nile, and other rivers.

Modern indoor plumbing delivers clean, safe, potable water to each service point in the distribution system.

Modern toilets incorporate an " S ", " U ", " J ", or " P " shaped bend that causes the water in the toilet bowl to collect and act as a seal against sewer gases.

Modern amenities were unknown ; telephones were unknown, drinking water was collected in tanks from roofs and at night the rooms were lit by oil lamps.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

Modern squash drinks are generally more complex and sugar free squash even more so ; the ingredients are usually water, sweetener such as aspartame or sodium saccharin, juice in a low quantity ( typically 5-10 percent ), large quantities of flavouring, preservatives and sometimes a colour such as anthocyanin.

Modern instruments do not use candles, but this approach of attenuation of a light beam through a column of water should be calibrated and reported in JTUs.

Modern water quality laws generally specify protection of fisheries and recreational use and require, as a minimum, retention of current quality standards.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

Modern avionics is a substantial portion of military aircraft spending.

Modern analytical chemistry is dominated by instrumental analysis.

* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

Modern figures give a proper motion of 7 arcseconds / year, distance 30 light years, so the displacement is 3 arcminutes and a half.

: The Sabbath: Its Meaning For Modern Man is a work on the nature and celebration of Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath.

Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, which is often considered the founder of modern, Madison Avenue advertising.

Modern residential chargers permit the user to set the charging times, so the generator is quiet at night.

Modern Megiddo is a town approximately west-southwest of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee in the Kishon River area.

Modern beadwork is often used as a creative hobby to create jewelry, purses, coasters, and dozens of other crafts.

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.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its pronunciation is in many respects a compromise between East and West Bulgarian ( see especially the phonetic sections below ).

Modern cymbals consist of several types of bronze, the most common being B20 bronze, which is roughly 20 % tin, 80 % copper, with traces of silver.

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

Modern taxonomy is rooted in the work of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics.

In Modern Irish, Oíche Bhealtaine is May Eve, and Lá Bealtaine is May Day.