However, the Mle 1917 RSC was criticized by infantrymen as being too heavy, too long, and too difficult to maintain in the trenches.

A recently published series of modern firing tests with vintage machine guns summarizes the Mle 1914 Hotchkiss as being: " A heavy and rock-steady combination of gun and tripod, the world's first efficient air cooled machine gun is admirably reliable and accurate " ( Robert Bruce, 1997 ).

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Image: French heavy cavalry Paris August 1914. jpg | French cuirassiers, wearing breastplates and helmets, parade through Paris on the way to battle, August 1914.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), which left much of the army in a state of mutiny.

On 25 October 1914, Céline volunteered to deliver a message, when others were reluctant to do so because of heavy German fire.

The population of Knokke doubled between 1873 and 1914 to 3, 326 inhabitants, then again from 1914 to 1930 and again to reach more than 14, 000 in 1965 despite the heavy setbacks brought by World War II.

The last major heavy fighting around Thuin occurred on August 23, 1914, at the onset of World War I, when the French army found itself nearly surrounded by the German army.

On 26 August 1914, he mounted a vigorous defensive action, a " stopping blow ", which despite heavy casualties, halted the German advance.

After four months of heavy fighting and casualties ( 750, 000 German and 995, 000 French ), the German and Allied armies attempted one more breakthrough operation to win a decisive victory in 1914.

In the second, from 1900 to 1914, there was a further heavy influx of Norwegians immigrating to Canada from the United States because of poor economic conditions in the USA, and 18, 790 from Norway.

After moving to the West Coast in 1906, he founded in 1914 a paving company, one of the first to use heavy construction machinery.

Both battalions saw very heavy fighting at Ypres and in the surrounding area, which eventually saw over 50, 000 British soldiers of the Regular Army become casualties, though the British held the line against seemingly overwhelming German attacks, stopping the final German attempt to break the Allied line in 1914.

Thus ( with heavy foreign investment and technical assistance ), Russia managed to achieve at least a veneer of industrialization by 1914.

He was one of five men awarded the medal three weeks after the outbreak of Great War, for his role in destroying a bridge under heavy fire during the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914.

From 1914, Xujiahui sat just outside the borders of the French Concession, and remained under heavy French influence.

On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, Captain Reynolds took up two teams with volunteer drivers, to recapture two British guns and limbered up two guns under heavy artillery and infantry fire.

On 14 September 1914 at the First Battle of the Aisne, France, Private Tollerton carried a wounded officer ( Lieutenant J. S. M. Matheson ), under heavy fire, as far as he was able, into a place of greater safety.

On 1 September 1914 at Néry, France, Sergeant Nelson helped to bring the guns into action-with an officer ( Edward Kinder Bradbury ) and a warrant officer ( George Thomas Dorrell )-under heavy fire and in spite of being severely wounded.

On 29 October 1914 near Gheluvelt, Belgium, Lieutenant Brooke led two attacks on the German trenches under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, regaining a lost trench at a very critical moment.

On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, Lance-Corporal Holmes carried a wounded man out of the trenches under heavy fire and later helped to drive a gun out of action by taking the place of a driver who was wounded.

On 28 September 1914 at Chavanne, Aisne, France, Private Dobson twice volunteered to go out under heavy fire to bring in two wounded men.

On 14 September 1914 near Chivy-sur-Aisne, France, Lance-Corporal Fuller advanced under very heavy enemy rifle and machine-gun fire to extract an officer who was mortally wounded, and carried him back to cover.

During December 1914, O ' Leary saw heavy fighting with the Irish Guards and was Mentioned in Despatches and subsequently promoted to Lance Corporal on 5 January 1915.

The French military at the time considered the Chauchat's performance as inferior in comparison to the reliable heavy Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.

Although the Model 1917 was intended to be the principal US Army heavy machine gun in the war, the Army was, in fact, forced to purchase many foreign weapons-the French-produced Hotchkiss 8 mm machine gun was actually the most numerous heavy machine gun used by the American Expeditionary Force.

The heavy machine-gun vehicle featured the Modèle réglementaire AVIS-2 turret fitted with a Hotchkiss 13, 2 mm Modèle 1930 mitrailleuse, which could penetrate 20 mm steel at 500 metres.

, also known as the Taishō 14 Machine Gun, was a Japanese air-cooled heavy machine gun, based on the design of the Hotchkiss M1914.

Hotchkiss heavy machine guns, some being of earlier types, were also used in combat by Japan, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Belgium, Brazil and Poland.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.

If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.

But for purely definition purposes -- used in conjunction with your regular Squatting, Leg Curling, Leg Extensor programs -- a heavy weight is not needed.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

The appeal of the suburb is particularly strong for heavy industry, which must move bulky objects along a lengthy assembly line and wants enough land area to do the entire job on one floor.

Deactivation of enzymes is also possible, although some types require extremely heavy doses of 10 Mrad or more.

An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

Conversely, if he gives a heavy rating to his own reading, and finds more accurate facts in it than in the others, a point is chalked up for the intrinsic, objective meaningfulness of this type of mediumistic material.

`` I feel cold '', the medium says, or `` My leg aches '', `` My head is heavy ''.

The problem becomes even more complex where an enterprise is engaged in the manufacture of a wide variety of other goods in addition to the heavy electrical equipment.

Farther south in New York there is a heavy haze of color over the Catskills in mid-October, notably along routes 23 and 23A.

but because liquor has a high caloric value -- 100 calories per oz. -- the heavy drinker is seldom hungry.

Synthesis of new elements is accomplished by bombarding target atoms of heavy elements with ions, such that the sum of the atomic numbers of the target and ion elements equals the atomic number of the element being created.

In addition to its rugged mountains, the area is known for severe winters with heavy snowfalls.

Sensory ataxia presents itself with an unsteady " stomping " gait with heavy heel strikes, as well as a postural instability that is usually worsened when the lack of proprioceptive input cannot be compensated for by visual input, such as in poorly lit environments.

This corresponds to a speed of around 0. 05 c. There is surprisingly small variation around this energy, due to the heavy dependence of the half-life of this process on the energy produced ( see equations in the Geiger – Nuttall law ).

This is particularly important for light, modern anchors designed to bury in the bottom, where ratios of 5 – 7 to 1 are common, whereas heavy anchors and moorings can use 3 to 1 or less.

The crown of the anchor is then hauled up with a heavy tackle until one fluke can be hooked over the rail.

This is an anchor which relies solely on being a heavy weight.

The PowerPC CPU on PowerUP boards is usually used as a coprocessor for heavy computations ( a powerful CPU is needed to run MAME for example, but even decoding JPEG pictures and MP3 audio was considered heavy computation at the time ).