Sunday, April 19, 2009

Geohistorical aspects and a glossary

Tonight post the following. 1) Your first sentence with a date and nation (e.g. the space shuttle was first designed in America in 1981). Then list the words you have in your glossary thus far. See how many you can get.

Thanks

Be aware that the second draft is due soon (see post below)

22 comments:

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  2. In 1988, a group of Airbus engineers, began working in secret on the development of a ultra-high-capacity airliner,On 19 December 2000, the supervisory board of newly restructured Airbus voted to launch a €8.8-billion programme to build the A3XX,wich then was named a380
    CH 10

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  3. In 1973 the first Global Positioning System was invented by Ivan Getting. In the past, people used stars, sun and moon for navigation.

    Global Positioning System
    Tracking
    Copper
    Mapping
    Triangulating
    Satellite
    Navigation
    Space Segment
    User Segment
    Control Segment
    Polymers
    Thermoplastics
    Alloy
    Composites
    Thermosets
    Hemisphere
    Orion
    Compass
    Accurate
    Accuracy

    Thanks...
    OMAR AL SHEMAILI

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  4. The F-16 was first created in 1979 in the USA by General Dynamics for the USA military (see Wikipedia, 2009).

    Aircraft Aluminum
    Composites
    Magnesium
    Cockpit plane
    Prototype
    Configurations
    Advanced sensors
    Infrared search
    Missiles
    Perspective

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  5. The first space shuttle was flown in 1981 flight of Columbia (STS-1) was commanded by John Young (a space veteran from the Gemini and Apollo eras) and piloted by Robert

    golassary
    Survived
    Orbital
    Region
    Foam
    Allegations
    Ejected
    Parachuted back
    Journey
    Pad
    Launch

    thanks alot
    Mohammed Almatrooshi

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  6. The first mobile phone may be hard to indentify exactly, but there is evidence that it dates back to Denmark in 1973, by Motorola (see Wikipedia 2009: Motorola).
    1. Fiber Optics
    2. zero generation
    3. cellular
    4. commercial launch
    5. analog
    6. drawbacks
    7. cost-effective
    8. stylish devices

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  7. The first hovercraft was built in Britain in 1954. Today I’ll go to write about something that is related to technology under the section of sea transportation. I collect some information about hovercraft and which it called also” air-cushion vehicle”, Hovercraft is one of the sea transportation and which can be use in the sea and the land so it is a combination of two machines in one.

    Glossary
    Combination
    Cushion
    Sufficient
    Unbolted
    Envelope
    Assembly
    Sensitive
    Chamber
    Efficient
    Maintain
    Flexible
    Philosopher

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  8. The iPhone was first produced in America, under Steve Jobs supervision at Apple, in 2007.

    8.0 Glossary

    Launched

    Fancier

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  9. The popular BlackBerry was invented by Waterloo-based Research in Motion (RIM) which is a Canadian university in waterloo by students of engineering in 1984.
    Glossary
    • Seek: to try to find or to get something.
    • Innovation: a new idea or method
    • Entertainment: shows, films, television, or other performances or activities that entertain people.
    • Various: many different.
    • Display: to show
    • Resolution: when something separates or is separated into clearly different parts.
    • Track: mark
    • Conveniently: suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty
    • Warp: bend
    • Applications: an official request
    • Functions: the duty of something
    • Capture: to represent or describe something very accurately using words or images
    • Formats: to organize
    • Aluminum: a light metallic element which is silver in color and used especially for making cooking equipment and aircraft parts
    • Tunes: musical notes
    • GPS: global positioning system
    Mohamed Ali

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  10. The word Bluetooth is an anglicized version of Old Norse (Blátönn) or Danish (Blåtand), the name of the tenth-century king Harald of Denmark and Norway, ( from Wikipedia 2009)

    handheld devices
    numerous
    inconvenient cable
    not disabled
    manipulation
    magnetic disk
    loudspeaker

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  12. In 1998 was made first USB Flash at My-System company. Technology revolution has been changed our life completely, it helps to achieve the work faster and easier than before. In the past, we have used a floppy disk in order to save our data or comp documents. In contrast, the invention of USB flash drive is the best product on saving for data and time. This report will cover the invention of USB drive and its advantages and disadvantages.

    I will put my word later

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  13. Great work guys - some interesting opening sentences. I also think the glossary is developing well, and should evolve into an extremely useful document.

    Keep it up - Richard

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  14. The idea of making the invisible cloak came out and gets closer to reality recently in 2006 by trying to make this unique cloak in Japan and UK.

    There are several words that i have picked it like:
    Invisible:
    Cloak:
    Metamaterials:
    Serve:
    Electromagnetic waves:
    Composite:
    Macroscopic:
    Fiction:
    Mysteries:
    Manmade:

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  15. Around two million years ago, Homo habilis have constructed the first man-made structure in East Africa, which were simply an arrangements of stones to hold branches of trees in cretin area (see: Homo habilis-Wikipedia,2009). Despite the dispute over the fact of they were our ancestors or not the hold the record for the first structure or home made on earth.

    for the Glossary later

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  16. Back in 1959 in California the discovering of nanotechnology had been launched by Professor Richard Feynman who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. But for the first time that we heard the word Nano; our imagination leads us to go through the smallest part in the global which is an atom. That takes us to think how many times the sciences need to invent things that we could use it in our real life from the atoms-or-nanotech.

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  17. Nice information - be sure to reference it.

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  18. The idea of having a computer came from the need of a calculator. The abacus was first known in the fourth century in Babylonia.

    6.0Glossary Registering

    Predicting
    Purpose
    Cooperation
    The microelectronics
    Integrated
    Chip
    Entertain
    Explosive
    Administrator
    Customizing

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  19. The first rocket which could fly high enough to claim the title "First Space Rocket" was invented by German Scientists Werner Von Braun and Walter Riedel. It was called V2. The first V2 to reach space was launched by Von Braun`s team in 1942.

    Launch
    Propellant
    Space
    Instrument
    Aerodynamic
    Exterior
    Interior
    Aircraft
    Thrust
    Nozzle
    Missile
    Ejection seat
    Supersonic
    Combustion
    Exhaust
    Chamber
    Barrier
    Lunar
    Recoil
    Orbital
    Nose cone

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  20. Imaginations and the idea of flight have long been in the minds of humans. Back at the time of around 1325 the ancient Greek myth of Icarus was born.

    1.Vanes
    2.Shafts
    3.Compressor
    4.Combustor
    5.Nozzle
    6.Piston
    7.Combustion chamber
    8.Airflow
    9.Intake
    10.Valves

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  21. In 1903, the Wright brothers, Orville were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled.

    Steel الصُلب أو الفولاذ

    Glider شراعية

    Propulsion الدفع

    Airships المناطيد

    Drag المقاومة

    Weight الوزن

    Thrust قوة الدفع

    Wings الجناحات

    Mechanical flight الطيران الميكانيكي

    Atmosphere الغلاف الجوي

    Lift of aircraft قوة الرفع

    Roll اللفة

    Rudder الدفة

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