WINNER — MACHINE

WINNER MACHINEWhen 25 years ago on the pages of Newspapers and magazines began to appear about the creation of an electronic cybernetic machines are able to play dominoes, checkers, chess and other games, readers in different ways embraced the news. Alone, tossing up her hands in astonishment, and said, “just Think! What came to technique!” Other, moderately severe, people shrugged their shoulders: “Do scientists have nothing better to do?” “What are you — objected to them and others, not so serious, — let them enjoy themselves. It is necessary for scientists to have a rest after hard work”.

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SIKORSKY UH-60L BLACK HAWK

SIKORSKY UH-60L BLACK HAWKIn December 1976 the American helicopter firm Sikorsky was announced as the winner of the competition to design a multi-purpose tactical transport helicopter for the US army to replace the UH-1. The firm submitted a helicopter S-70 (UH-60), which made its first flight two years earlier in October 1974. Then the machine became the basis of the production program of the company. All the years of serial production built more than 1000 copies.

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FAN LAMP…

FAN... LAMPThe principle of operation of my proposed homemade svetvincenat “Whelan” is forced Ventilation of the Lamp bulb and heat the bottom of the room with warm air by sending heat to the floor, which is the “waste” of the light source. Moreover, the “Whelan” cleans the air from dust. And the lifespan of the lamp filament is thus significantly increased.

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ROCKET THE WINNER

ROCKETThe proposed model is made by the known, so-called “Moscow” scheme. Its main feature is folding the rotary wing. It is made of balsa plate with a thickness of 3.5 mm. the Center section — size 340×65 mm, ears length 140 mm — trapezoidal shape. All three elements of the wing shaped and edged for rigidity along the contour of the fake rails. The width of the front edge of 2.5 mm, the rear is 3.5. The connection of the center section and “ears” swivel, silk strips of 12 mm width, glued on the bottom. From the top, at a distance of 20 mm from the axis of rotation, affixed the hooks, wire, allied with a diameter of 0.5 mm for hanging rubber bands return “ears”. Where you touch the rubber bands to the plane of the wing are reinforced with celluloid overlays. On the center section of the fixed back two hooks. One, closer to the center, the left half for the elastic return of the wing, the other on the right, closer to the edge— thread for the fixing of the wing during takeoff.

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YOUR WORKPLACE

YOUR WORKPLACEYOUR WORKPLACEThe scientific organization of labor, rational layout and equipping of workplaces is an important reserve for increasing productivity and improving product quality. Not casually the Exhibition of achievements of national economy of the USSR, devoted to MUSIC, always attract the attention of specialists in various sectors of the economy, including young innovators, participants of all-Union review NTTM.

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“BUFFALO” AGAINST THE “SEAGULLS” AND “DONKEYS”

Carrier-based fighter BREWSTER F2A Brewster company was the first fighter monoplane taken into service by the Navy of the United States. Designed in 1937, the beginning of the Second world war he was already considered outdated. Japanese aircraft were superior to it in flight characteristics and firepower. However, the plane was successfully used not only in the US but in other countries, and its combat use by the pilots of the Finnish F2A puts in one number with the most outstanding fighters of the Second world war.

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MERCEDES-BENZ E-class

MERCEDES-BENZ E-classIn automotive publications many legends about the origin of the name MERCEDES and the famous three-rayed star, crowning the radiators of the cars of this brand. However, most historians of technology agree that the three-rayed star symbolizes the Union of the three founders of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, the designers Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and the businessman Emil Elinika. And the name MERCEDES was awarded in 1901 the first truly successful car company, appeared at the insistence of Lineka, whose daughter was named Mercedes.

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