STEEL “HEATER”

STEEL This stove I installed in the bath at their summer cottage. For ten years I use it and is very happy. The furnace body of metal, is welded from a steel sheet with a thickness of 5 mm. From the same sheet made and all other elements of the heating device in contact with the fire. About the same thickness and have the flame tube. The remaining flat parts from steel sheet of thickness 2 mm. Metal variant of the furnace design is selected for several reasons: first, for such stoves do not require massive foundations; second, it can be manufactured in a different, more adapted place and then transported and mounted in the bath; third, it quickly heats the room that country bathhouse is highly desirable.

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“NEW WAVE” IN THE OCEAN

A significant number of cruisers left in the Navy of the United States after the Second world war, some of which underwent major upgrades with the installation of a missile, not an obstacle to create new projects. Although in the 1950-ies the existing forces could handle any opponent in virtually any point of the world ocean, to stop the arms race, the United States was not going to. Naturally, the military and shipbuilding industry associated with the production of new weapons had a powerful lobby in government. Shipbuilding projects meant new jobs for the poor and new profits for the rich. And those and others were directly interested in them – at their level.

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BATTLESHIPS OF ASSYRIA

BATTLESHIPS OF ASSYRIAIt is no accident XII-IX century BC historians call the “dark ages”. During this period, the tribes inhabiting the Northern and Eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea, meeting face-to-face, marked the beginning of numerous clashes peoples. Ancient States were dissolved in the mass of the conquerors, and the free lands of the new colony. Art, and knowledge fell into decay, was perfected as a weapon. In the center of these events was Phoenicia, a city which has turned into a different camp. But not only the fear carried with them the conquerors, has never had the Phoenicians faced with a variety of designs and decoration of ships that washed up on their shores. This was the impetus for the development of shipbuilding. In the main shipyard in the Middle East actively adopt foreign experience, adapted it to new conditions.

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CHAIR CHAISE

CHAIR CHAISEOn the Sunny balconies in a city apartment or on the green lawn of a suburban area nice to sit in a comfortable chair-a lounger. The design proposed by the Hungarian magazine “Earmaster”, different from the traditional schemes of sun loungers by the fact that the chair is not just foldable and detachable. Actually it’s two independent frames, one of which, the seat is inserted into another, playing the role of the back. Each of them has its own characteristics, to ensure the reliability of a reciprocal link in position without additional fastening elements. Consider each frame separately.

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MAIN BATTLE TANK “TYPE 99” FROM CHINA

MAIN BATTLE TANK In 2009, the global military community stirred the sensational interview of the Chinese General designer main battle tank “Type 99” Joo of Aishana. It stated that “China has set up a new tank “Type 99” among the ten tanks of the world occupies a leading position on three important indicators of combat potential of the firepower, mobility, protection, and it may be rivaled only by the German Leopard 2 and the American “Abrams”.

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STRANDED, A HOMEMADE

STRANDED, HOMEMADEStranded microcable widely used in modern equipment, in particular for the connection of input devices of a type well-known joysticks and other peripherals to computers. With all the variety of requirements such microcables, even desirable, to be thin and flexible, does not cause inconvenience and noise during the work, was not torn and did not break from repeated bending. The latter is especially characteristic of cable lines with a miniature push-button joysticks that are holding.

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SEAPLANE MBR-2

SEAPLANE MBR-2SEAPLANE MBR-2. Scale model 1:33.

The proposed paper model is a copy of the specific MBR-2, anoit the collective nature of the image of the sea “ambarchik” plane, designed for intelligence, but due to circumstances became a night bomber in the early and most difficult years of the great Patriotic war.

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