There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

Police laboratory technicians said the explosive device, containing either TNT or nitroglycerine, was apparently placed under the left front wheel.

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the Difference Engine, was a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials.

Table-sized instead of room-sized, the device was capable of calculating tables but imperfectly.

The Atanasoff – Berry Computer ( ABC ) was the first electronic digital computing device.

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

Atlas Autocode's syntax was influenced by the output device which the author had available, a Friden Flexowriter.

The cartridge was intended as a pass-through device ( similar to the later Game Genie ).

For example, in Shadowrun, a tactical nuclear device was detonated near FASA's offices at 1026 W. Van Buren St in Chicago, Illinois.

With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to — about 13, 000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb ( 13 to 16 kt ) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba ( 50 Mt ), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

On Monday, October 9, 2006, North Korea has announced that it had successfully detonated a nuclear device underground at 10: 36 am local time without any radiation leak.

* 1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya ; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.

Ironically, it made global headlines alongside reports that Pakistan, following the suit of its neighbor and bitter rival India, had just detonated a nuclear device.

** A 5. 3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program.

** An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska as part of the Vela Uniform program, code-named Project Long Shot.

On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device ( code name " Little Boy ") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion-type device ( code name " Fat Man ") was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

They were both in the lobby at the Grand Hyatt when a suicide bomber sent by al-Qaeda in Iraq detonated his device ; his daughter died instantly, and Akkad died of his injuries two days later in a hospital.

In military terminology, a nuclear warhead detonated hundreds of kilometers above the Earth's surface is known as a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse ( HEMP ) device.

A large device detonated at 400 – 500 km ( 250 to 312 miles ) over Kansas would affect all of the continental U. S. The signal from such an event extends to the visual horizon as seen from the burst point.

On August 12, 1953, the Soviets detonated their RDS-6s device, which incorporated the Sloika design that had been developed by Andrei Sakharov and Vitaly Ginzburg.

Brusca detonated the device by remote control on 23 May 1992.

Four years later, on August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its own nuclear device.

NATO Military experts said that by evidence gathered from “ The fact that the battery was lying within an area spattered by rubble and wreckage seemed to suggest that it was detonated using a relatively sophisticated timer device “ also the extensive amount of explosive used and the type of explosive all pointed to the Macedonian military.

Using the same conceptual design, the Fat Man device was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

* Chagai-II: Two days later, on 30 May 1998, Pakistan detonated a 6th nuclear device completing its own series of underground tests with this being the last test the two nations have carried out to date.

A car bomb, or truck bomb also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device ( VBIED ), is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and then detonated.

This handbill was distributed 16 days before the first nuclear device was detonated at the Nevada Test Site.

The initial 100-megaton design plans for the Soviet Tsar Bomba ( the device actually tested was a 50 % scaled-down version ) included the possibility of a salted variant which, if detonated, could have rendered the Northern Hemisphere nearly uninhabitable.

All members of Gargoyle have an explosive device implanted within their bodies that can be detonated in the event they are captured, though this seems to be used only rarely.

The second of these, codenamed G2, was the largest device ever detonated in Australia, with a yield of 98 kt.