Other museum ships include the Hellenic Navy destroyer HS Velos ( D16 ), the old cable ship Thalis o Milisios ( Thales of Miletos ) and Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient trireme naval ship.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

Thales also made advancements in 580 BC by suggesting that water is the basic element, experimenting with magnets and attraction to rubbed amber, and formulating the first cosmologies.

* Damocles, a French laser designator and forward looking infrared pod, made by the Thales Group and used on military aircraft.

Attribution did tend to occur at a later time, Reference to Thales was made by Proclus, and by Diogenes Laertius documenting Pamphila statement that the ancient

Thales Group has made many electronic devices and equipment used by the French Armed Forces from its past as Thomson-CSF, including the SPECTRA helmet for the army and the gendarmerie.

The system is made by Thales Navy Netherlands.

This organisation is now made up of SELEX, EADS and Thales.

The pre-Socratic cosmogony of Thales, who made water the first element, may be seen as a natural outgrowth of this poetic thinking.

This organisation, originally ( GEC-Thomson-DASA Airborne Radar ) is now made up of their successor companies, BAE Systems, Thales, and EADS, respectively.

This organisation was named after the original partners, ( GEC-Thomson-DASA Airborne Radar ) and is now made up of their successor companies, BAE Systems, Thales, and EADS, respectively.

Thales Alenia Space made corrections allowing the satellite to reach the planned geostationary transfer orbit on 3 September.

At the General Assembly of the DRM Consortium in Hangzhou China in April 2004, a Chinese manufacturer Zhongli made a demonstration with assistance from Thales SA and fed their new Crossed Field Antenna with 6 kW of DRM power.

He is also credited by tradition with having made the first proof of a geometric theorem-the " Theorem of Thales " described above.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

In 2011, when it won a contract for the Lightweight Multirole Missile, Thales announced it agreed with the MOD to " re-role previously contracted budgets to facilitate the full-scale development, series production and introduction of the LMM.

The company then went through a series of transactions, including with Marconi plc, before becoming Thales in 2000.

In the same year Thomson-CSF went through a series of mergers and acquisitions to become the Thales Group, consequently in 2001 Shorts Missile Systems was renamed Thales Air Defence Limited ( TADL ).

Thales ' theorem, named after Thales of Miletus states that if A, B, and C are points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter of the circle, then the angle ABC is a right angle.

As reported by the ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus around 600 BC, charge ( or electricity ) could be accumulated by rubbing fur on various substances, such as amber.

Aristotle attributed the first of what could be called a scientific discussion on magnetism to Thales of Miletus, who lived from about 625 BC to about 545 BC.

The OSP signed four Memorandums of Understanding with leading companies from Europe and Singapore at the Paris Eurosatory 2008 defense exhibition on Junen 20th, Rheinmetall Group and Diehl Defence Holding of Germany, Singapore Technologies Engineering ( ST Engg ), and Thales of France.

( Based on excerpt from Epicurus ' Gnoseology ' Handbook of Greek Philosophy: From Thales to the Stoics Analysis and Fragments ', Nikolaos Bakalis, Trafford Publishing 2005, ISBN 1-4120-4843-5 )

Several centuries later Ionia was the place where western philosophy began and was the homeland of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. They were natural-philosophers of the Ionian school of philosophy and tried to explain the phenomena according to no-supernatural laws. They also searched a simple material-form behind the appearances of things ( origin ) and this conception had a great influence on the early archaic art in Greece.

Allegedly, it passed in turn from one of the seven sages to another, beginning with Thales, until one of them ( either Thales or Solon, depending on the story ) finally dedicated it to Apollo who was held to be wisest of all.

This attracted industry with a focus on technology: Stork B. V., Hazemeyer, Heemaf ( now part of Eaton and Essent ), KHZ ( now AkzoNobel ), and Hollandse Signaal Apparaten, now taken over by the Thales Group.

The structure used for Columbus is based on the MPLM module built for NASA by Thales Alenia Space.

In addition, Globalstar announced on April 3, 2007 that it has signed a € 9 million agreement with Thales Alenia Space to upgrade the Globalstar satellite constellation, including necessary hardware and software upgrades to Globalstar ’ s satellite control network facilities.

In geometry, Thales ' theorem ( named after Thales of Miletus ) states that if A, B and C are points on a circle where the line AC is a diameter of the circle, then the angle ABC is a right angle.

So construct the midpoint H between O and P, and draw a circle centered at H through O and P. By Thales ' theorem, the sought point T is the intersection of this circle with the given circle k, because that is the point on k that completes a right triangle OTP.

Thales often worked with DCNS and designed the electronics used on French ships, and it is involved in the construction of both the Horizon and FREMM programs.

In February 2004, Thales was awarded a contract for a new command and control system for the French Navy, the SIC 21, that will be fitted on the Charles de Gaulle, many vessels and shore locations.

Thales is also working on X-ray imaging, finances, energy and operating commercial satellites.

Thales is also a major manufacturer of in-flight entertainment systems on board airliners.

Schabir Shaik, the financial advisor to the president of the African National Congress party Jacob Zuma, was found guilty of organising a bribe on behalf of Thales.

Terminal guidance is provided by an active radar seeker which is a joint development ( June 2003 ) between MBDA's Seeker Division and Thales Airborne Systems and builds on their co-operation on the 4A ( Active Anti-Air Seeker ) family of seekers that equip the MICA and ASTER missiles.

There are some reports that the Dassault Rafale's avionics, the Thales Spectra, includes " stealthy " radar jamming technology, and systems for the active cancellation of RADAR analogous to the acoustic noise suppression systems on the De Havilland Canada Dash 8.

Thales of Miletus | Thales, the earliest known researcher into electricity

Thales was incorrect in believing the attraction was due to a magnetic effect, but later science would prove a link between magnetism and electricity.

This property, first recorded by Thales of Miletus, suggested the word " electricity " ( from William Gilbert's initial coinage, " electra "), from the Greek word for amber, ēlektron.

Western Philosophy is generally said to begin in the Greek cities of western Asia Minor ( Ionia ) with Thales of Miletus, who was active around 585 B. C.

The lunar surface around Thales has a ray system that extends for over 600 kilometers.