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Stephenson's Metaverse appears to its users as an urban environment, developed along a single hundred-meter-wide road, the Street, that runs the entire 65536 km ( 2 < sup > 16 </ sup > km ) circumference of a featureless, black, perfectly spherical planet.
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Stephenson's and Metaverse
* Stephenson's short story " The Great Simoleon Caper " which refers to both the Metaverse seen in Snow Crash and the First Distributed Republic seen in The Diamond Age ( another short story which fits in the Diamond Age milieu and even shares a character is " Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast ").
It is technically an MMOSG or Casual Multiplayer Online ( CMO ) by definition, though its stated goal was to realize the concept of the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash.
It appears to be set in a United States that precedes the events in Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, using an early version of his Metaverse.
Stephenson's and appears
In Neal Stephenson's historical fiction novel Quicksilver one of the book's chief figures, Puritan Daniel Waterhouse, appears before an illegally reconstituted Star Chamber tribunal.
William Conrad, who had starred as Leiningen in a 1948 adaptation of Stephenson's story for the radio program Escape, appears in the film as a district commissioner.
In fiction, the House appears in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle as Ravenscar House with Daniel Waterhouse as the architect in place of Hooke.
Stephenson's and its
Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its performance in winning the contest made it famous.
Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
The decline was hastened by Stephenson's talking to the press in 1926-1927 about government officials who had accepted payments and bribes from the Klan ; the organization lost its reputation as law-abiding and upholding morality.
She awoke on Stephenson's private train on its way to Chicago.
Several characters in Neal Stephenson's trilogy The Baroque Cycle, particularly Quicksilver and The Confusion, play a role in the Monmouth Rebellion and its aftermath.
While a capable locomotive for the day, its technology was somewhat antiquated compared to George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £ 500 prize money.
The strait is bridged in two places-the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge.
Comments about Stephenson's humor pervade its reviews.
But the ' Cycloped ' was a primitive idea and because of its failure to generate enough speed to equal its competitors-Burstall's Perseverance, Braithwaite's Novelty, Hackworth's Sans Pareil and Stephenson's Rocket-the ' Cycloped ' ultimately lost the competition in the trials.
Appearing in Datamation, a then-leading trade magazine focused on enterprise computing, " The King of Maleputa " ( translation: bad whore ) predates by at least 15 years Neal Stephenson's better-known novel, Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) and its imaginary island nation, Kinakuta, which has been set up for use in anonymous, computer-based banking activities.
Stephenson's and developed
When the first public railways developed, George Stephenson's skilful innovation meant that his railways were dominant and the gauge he used was therefore the most widespread.
In England, it had developed from the 2-2-2 design of Stephenson's first Long Boiler locomotive, around 1840, which he had altered to place two pairs of wheels at the front with the outside cylinders between them to improve stability.
Stephenson's and along
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.
Near to Haversham, along the Ouse towards Wolverton, is the Wolverton Railway Viaduct of a ' typical ' Stephenson's design, carrying the West Coast Main Line over the river Great Ouse.
The train engine " De Snelheid " was the twin of the Amsterdam " Arend ", which along with the carriages, were designed by Stephenson's apprentice, the English rail engineer Thomas Longridge Gooch of R. B.
The column massed in the low ground between Star Fort and Fort Milroy, then moved down along the railroad line and the Valley Pike toward the Charles Town crossroad, just south of Stephenson's Depot.
However, the recent discovery of the letter extant, described herein by Francis Beaufort, dated 5 October 1837 and written to Sir Benjamin Hawes, clearly shows that Benjamin Hawes had attended the last trial demonstration between Euston Square and Camden Town of the Cooke telegraph along Stephenson's London and Birmingham Railway line.
Stephenson's method of working was to follow river valleys as far as possible, with branches into major towns along the way.
Stephenson's and single
Stephenson's most visible decision was to use a single pair of driving wheels, with a small carrying axle behind.
However Stephenson ’ s administrative inefficiency soon became apparent, whereas Locke estimated the costs for his section of the line so meticulously and speedily, that he had all of the contracts signed for his section of the line before a single one had been signed for Stephenson's section.
Stephenson's and road
One of the earliest road suspension bridges by Thomas Telford now carries a footpath whilst Robert Stephenson's tubular iron bridge still carries the main Holyhead to London railway line.
Johnson's Division, alone, captured 3, 500 prisoners in the action at Stephenson's Depot, and this is not surprising, since this is the only major engagement of the war in which an entire Division column was attacked at night while route-marching on a road.
Stephenson's and Street
Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in 1829 at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Stephenson later visited a musical instrument maker in Duke Street in Leicester, who on Stephenson's instructions constructed a ‘ Steam Trumpet ’ which was tried out in the presence of the board of Directors ten days later.
Stephenson later visited a musical instrument maker on Duke Street in Leicester, who on Stephenson's instructions constructed a ‘ Steam Trumpet ’ which was tried out in the presence of the board of Directors ten days later.
Stephenson's and km
The 25-mile ( 40 km ) long route opened on 27 September 1825 and, with the aid of Stephenson's Locomotion No 1, was the first locomotive-hauled public railway in the world.
* 1829-George and Robert Stephenson's locomotive, The Rocket, sets a speed record of 47 km / h ( 29 mph ) at the Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.
George Stephenson's Birthplace is his cottage that can be found on the north bank of the Tyne three quarters of a mile ( 1. 2 km ) east of the village centre.
* 1830-Rainhill Trials-2ton 3cwt axle load ( Stephenson's Rocket )-32 km / h
The line follows George Stephenson's original 32-mile ( 51. 5 km ) Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was one of the world's first passenger railways, and the first to have run a ' scheduled ' service, having opened in 1830.
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Jack Shaftoe ( also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L ' Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner ) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2, 686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle.
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Sixty percent of the world's railways use Stephenson's 4 ft 8½ in < span class = nowrap >( 1, 435 mm )</ span > standard gauge.
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Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge.
Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.
* Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
The two designs differed in that, the Davy's lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's lamp was contained in a glass cylinder.
It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Dial Cottage, on Great Lime Road.
William Losh of Walker Ironworks had thought that he had an agreement with Stephenson to use his cast-iron rails, and Stephenson's decision caused a permanent rift between the two men.
The next ten years were the busiest of Stephenson's life, as he was besieged with requests from railway promoters.
Stephenson's estimates and organising ability proved to be inferior to those of Locke and the board's dissatisfaction led to Stephenson's resignation.
Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.
Her father Thomas refused marriage because of Stephenson's lowly status as a miner.
George Stephenson's Birthplace is an 18th century historic house museum in the village of Wylam, and is operated by the National Trust.
The museum is located within the Stephenson Memorial Hall ( which also incorporates the Pomegranate Theatre, formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre ) and adjacent to Stephensons Place, located roughly mid distance between Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and his resting place in Trinity Church.
From 1990 until 2003, Stephenson's portrait appeared on the reverse of Series E £ 5 notes issued by the Bank of England.
Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.
By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).
Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa.
Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.
Snow Crash can be considered to be the first expression of Stephenson's mature style.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.
The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon.
Stephenson's books tend to have elaborate, inventive plots drawing on numerous technological and sociological ideas at the same time.
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