To reduce heat transfer from the hot gas to this anode holder outside the regime of the arc, a carbon shield was attached to the surface providing an air gap of 1/16 inch between the plate and the surface of the anode holder.

In addition, the inner surface of the carbon shield was covered with aluminum foil to reduce radiation.

all over the country a massive shield of prayer was thrown around him.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

At its maximum, the temperature of the spacecraft's heat shield was between.

The rest of the body was generally protected by means of a large shield.

It originally was derived from the protective shield associated with a religious figure when related in myths and images.

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

Often the Aegis is described as the bag in which Athene carried her shield and the serpent who was her son.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

She also had one daughter, Aega, who was born from the ocean in a shield of ice.

On April 3, 2012, it was revealed that the Panthers would not be adopting Nike's " Elite 51 " uniform technology, and that aside from the aforementioned logo change and the league-wide revision of the NFL shield on the uniform ( replacing the NFL Equipment logo ), the uniforms will essentially remain unchanged.

In the 1940s, Charlton used a design featuring a robin sitting in a football within a shield, sometimes with the letters CAFC in the four quarters of the shield, which was worn for the 1946 FA Cup Final.

The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U. S. government, from orders of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II.

However, if one examines the few existing foreign sources about Denmark from the 13th to 15th centuries, it is apparent that, at least from foreign point of view ; the national symbol of Denmark was not a red-and-white banner but the royal coat of arms ( three blue lions on a golden shield.

Robinson was sent to remove two protruding gap fillers from Discovery's heat shield, after engineers determined there was a small chance they could affect the shuttle upon re-entry.

One was his Board of Admiralty seal, which contained a red-and-white striped shield on a blue field.

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

The exact time when hoplitic warfare was developed is uncertain, the prevalent theory being that it was established sometime during the 8th or 7th century BC, when the " heroic age was abandoned and a far more disciplined system introduced " and the Argive shield became popular.

The spacecraft was derived from the GEOS research satellite built by British Aerospace, and modified with the addition of a dust shield as proposed by Fred Whipple which comprised a thin ( 1 mm ) aluminium sheet separated by a space and a thicker Kevlar sheet.

The tunnel would not have been possible without the innovative tunneling shield designed by Marc Brunel and built by Maudslay Sons & Field at their Lambeth works.

The heat shield system was built under the responsibility of Aérospatiale near Bordeaux, now part of EADS SPACE Transportation.

Based on an old Hungarian legend, Attila (?– 453 ), the great hun emperor built a hill there, when besieging Aquileia, because he needed a winter quarters billet: he instructed his soldiers to bring soil in their helmet and shield, because, the landscape was too flat, without any hill.

The shield allows a spacecraft body to be built to just the thickness needed for structural integrity, while the foil adds little additional weight.

Most activity during this episode was located in the central part of the chain and built a shield volcano called Sheridan Mountain.

# During the third episode of eruptive activity built the shield volcano of which is capped by Kwohl Butte and the shield that underlies Mount Bachelor.

The Chinese also built the first repeating fire-arm, several barrels behind a small wooden shield, the musketeer would turn the barrels and light each barrel with a slow match one by one.

The first tunnel ( the more northern of the uptown pair ) was originally built without an excavation shield or iron construction because the chief engineer of the time, Dewitt Haskin, believed that the river silt was strong enough to maintain the tunnel's form ( with the help of compressed air ) until a 2½ foot ( 76 cm ) thick brick lining could be constructed.

and was built between 1825 and 1843 using Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambard Brunel's newly invented tunnelling shield technology, by him and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The tunnelling shield, built at Henry Maudslay's Lambeth works and assembled in the Rotherhithe shaft, was the key to Brunel's construction of the Thames Tunnel.

All were built using refinements of Brunel's tunnelling shield, with James Henry Greathead playing a particularly important role in developing the technology.

A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows.

Shield volcanoes are built by effusive eruptions, which flow out in all directions to create a shield like that of a warrior.

In comparison, shield volcanoes are built of relatively weakly viscous basaltic lavas that erupts in longer cycles than that of a stratovolcano.

A lead castle built to shield a radioactive sample in a lab

During the next 10 million years, a series of new basaltic volcanic cones similar to the shield volcanoes now found in Hawaii were built.

The bottom half of the borough's shield can be seen on this photo of Lewisham College's Tressillian Building, built 1927-31.

The cone was built from basaltic andesite, a common component of other shield volcanoes in the Oregon Cascades, breccia, and tuff, and is intruded by dikes.

It was the owner of this lodge, Edward III's shield bearer, Thomas Cheyne, who first gave his name to the village and his descendant, Sir John Cheyne, who built Chenies Manor House in around 1460 on the site.

* The field ( or shield background ) is gold, a colour taken from the Arms of the Clan Campbell of Succoth ( Garscube Estate ) and the engrailed black diagonal stripe is taken from the arms of Colquhoun ( Killermont Estate ), and the buckle is taken from the arms of the Campbell-Colquhouns ( Garscadden Estate ); representing the three estates upon which much of Bearsden is now built.

He was crowned on July 8 of that year inside a large log " tabernacle " built by his followers, in an elaborate ceremony that featured a crown ( described by one witness as " a shiny metal ring with a cluster of glass stars in the front "), a red royal robe, a shield, breastplate and wooden scepter.