Rare aircraft in the collection include one of only two surviving Douglas D-558 Skystreak aircraft, and the second ( and oldest surviving ) US-built Harrier, which was used as the flight-test aircraft and accumulated over 5, 000 flight-test hours.

On 27 March 1943 there was an explosion on HMS Dasher ( a US-built escort carrier ), which was then in the Firth of Clyde, which they ascribe to an accidental torpedoing by a British submarine.

The US-built NS Savannah, completed in 1962, was primarily a demonstration of civil nuclear power and was too small and expensive to operate economically as a merchant ship.

During World War II, the airport was known as Windsor Field and was intensively used by the Royal Air Force in the delivery flights of US-built fighter and bomber aircraft such as the Boeing B-17 and Consolidated B-24 bombers, and the Curtiss P-40 fighter from the aircraft manufacturers to the North African and European Theatres of War.

In January 1943 the 9th was re-equipped with the US-built P-39 " Airacobra " and Budanova and Litvyak moved to the 296th Fighter Aviation Regiment ( later the 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment ) of Nikolai Baranov, and continued to fly the Yak.

The W125 was considered the most powerful race car ever for about 3 decades, until large capacity US-built V8 engines in CanAm sportcars reached similar power in the mid 1960s.

In North America, the largest Chapter in the world is located at 1342 Naglee Ave. ; the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas owns the Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, founded in 1927, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the fifth planetarium built in the USA ( and the first to have a US-built star projector, built by Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis ), the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, Rosicrucian Research Library, Grand Temple, Administration Building, Fountain Plaza and Gardens.

Bomber Command used not only British aircraft but also American-built machines such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator ( although less than 2 % of Bomber Command's wartime sorties were flown by US-built aircraft ); in the case of the former they were the first to be put into battle and gave useful information on improvements before the US entered the war.

The first 211 XB GTs built were fitted with a US-built version of the Cleveland V8 known as the ' big port ' engine, and later XB GTs were fitted with an Australian-built version of the engine with ' small port ' heads.

* February 17 – Class 59 Co-Co diesel locomotives built by EMD for Foster Yeoman introduced into heavy freight service on British Rail, the first US-built ( and privately-owned ) diesel locomotives to operate regularly on the English network.

In March 2010, Nova Bus received the first US-built order for its redesigned LFS from Honolulu, Hawaii's TheBus.

The latest Robonaut version, R2, the first US-built robot on the ISS, delivered by STS-133 in Feb 2011, is a robotic torso designed to assist with crew EVA's and can hold tools used by the crew.

This action followed the 1958 deployment of Thor IRBMs in the UK ( Project Emily ) and Jupiter IRBMs to Italy and Turkey in 1961 – more than 100 US-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads.

Secretly, the US agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter IRBMs deployed in Turkey and Italy.

Further refinements enabled certification in 1939 and spurred South African Airways to make an initial order for two aircraft fitted with US-built Pratt & Whitney engines.

His kill tally included some 200 various single-engined Soviet-built fighters, more than 80 US-built P-39s, 15 Il-2 ground attack aircraft, and 10 twin-engined medium bombers.

Accordingly, all instances of the current model ( left or right hand drive, anywhere in the world ) are British-made cars designed with Japanese engineering, except for the US-built two-door coupe and the sedan version built in Brazil for the Latin American market.

In the morning of July 16, 1863, under sanction by Minister Pruyn, in an apparent swift response to the attack on the Pembroke, the U. S. frigate, USS Wyoming, under Captain McDougal himself sailed into the strait and single-handedly engaged the US-built but poorly manned local fleet.

Vichy French air units, some of which were equipped with Dewoitine D. 520 fighters and US-built Martin Maryland bombers had initial air superiority, but the Allied invaders inflicted heavy casualties on Vichy air and ground forces.

In March 1942, US-built Grant medium tanks arrived: these replaced one in three Crusader squadrons.

This carried more vehicles than the LCT ( 20 in the US-built versions ) and had normal looking bows, although the bows were actually formed by doors which were opened for the unloading ramp to drop.

* November 11 – Regular ferry flights of US-built warplanes commence across the Atlantic.

* January 2-Denis Healey, the United Kingdoms Secretary of Defence, cancels the nation's fighter and military transport programmes and orders the purchase of the US-built F-4 Phantom and C-130 Hercules in their place.

The US-built sections of the International Space Station ( ISS ) use TDRSS for data relay.

US-built Saginaw manual transmissions and a new shift linkage replaced the Opel units.

It spawned the S130 Fairlady Z / 280ZX, which in turn spawned the Maxima ( originally 910 Bluebird / S130 Fairlady Z based ), the 160J / 710 / Violet / Auster / Stanza line, and the US-built Altima line.

In 1946 the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ) of John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly followed, beginning the computing era.

** Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ( ENIAC ), is completed.

** ENIAC ( for " Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer "), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.

ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ) was the first electronic general-purpose computer.

* Burks, Arthur W. and Alice R. Burks, The ENIAC: The First General-Purpose Electronic Computer ( in Annals of the History of Computing, Vol.

* Goldstine, Herman and Adele Goldstine, The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ( ENIAC ), 1946 ( reprinted in The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982, pp. 359 – 373 )

Chapter 7 Speed — 5000 Additions a Second: Moore School's ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer )

* ENIAC chapter in Karl Kempf, Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, November 1961

* ENIAC specifications from Ballistic Research Laboratories Report No. 971 December 1955, ( A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems )

In April 1943, the Army contracted with the Moore School to build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ( ENIAC ).

Eckert and Mauchly built the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ) at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1943 and 1946.

* November-Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer ( ENIAC ), is completed, covering 1800 feet of floor space, and the first set of calculations is run on it.

The BRLESC I ( Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer ) was a first-generation electronic computer built by the United States Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory ( BRL ) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors of ENIAC.

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer.

With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer ( ENIAC ), presented the first course in computing topics ( the Moore School Lectures ), founded the first commercial computer company ( the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation ), and designed the first commercial computer in the U. S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.

In 1950, Remington Rand acquired the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, founded by the makers of the ENIAC, and in 1952, they acquired Engineering Research Associates ( ERA ), both of which were pioneers in electronic computing.

* John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer

The meaning of the acronym is unknown, but mid-century, high-technology names often ended in " AC " ( generally for " Automatic Computer " or similar ), such as ENIAC, Univac, EDVAC, MANIAC, and JOHNNIAC.