and whether the invention at stake is the airplane or the aeroplane. Because each language version possesses a considerable degree of autonomy, articles and Wikipedias are not simply cut, translated, and pasted replicas of other Wikipedias.6Instead, different language versions entail the work of edit...
the value of the aeroplane to the world will be beyond computation."This wasn't the first grand promise of technology.In that same year Jules Verne announced,"The submarine(潜艇)may be the cause of bringing battle to a stoppage."Alfred Nobel,sincerely believe his dynamite(火药) would be a...
Cecille stood frozen for a second to see if this machine would catch fire. But it only lay crushed on its side like a coffee-colored bird knocked from the sky by a kestrel. The pilot’s head move and she ran toward the aeroplane, unsure why, with her mother screaming after her. As ...
Dropping out of high school at 15 years old, Einstein discovered that the strict disciplinary enforcement of the educational system at the moment was not for him. Failing the entrance exam to the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology a year later, it took a while for Einstein to di...
Most notably, he undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft ...
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It does more than any other aeroplane. It operates at twice the speed and twice the height and it is delightful to handle - a sportscar compared to a truck. It is something to have operated an aeroplane that US pilots have described as a technology equal to putting man on the Moon. ...
Similar schemes exist elsewhere: since 2007 around 30 miles of protected cycle lanes have been created in New York. In Amsterdam, where lanes have existed for decades, old people and women are far more inclined to cycle. Greens have long lobbied for cycle paths on the grounds that moving ...
NY, sent to Dr. Pavel Fabry, in Geneva, Switzerland.Radio Free Europewas created through the efforts of theNational Committee for a Free Europe, later known asFree Europe Committee, formed in New York byAllen Dulleswho was head of the CIA. Until1971, RFE was secretly funded by the CIA....
Johnson had never been up in an aeroplane(喷气机) before. So one day when a friend offered to take him for a ride in his own small plane, Mr. Johnson was very worried about accepting it. Finally, however, his friend still tried his best to tell him that it was very safe, and ...