BATTLESHIP APRAXIN

BATTLESHIP APRAXINCoastal defense battleship General-Admiral Apraksin. Scale model 1:200.

The rapid development of foreign fleets (primarily German) forced to 1890, to revise the Russian 20-year shipbuilding program (1883-1902.). A plan to strengthen the Baltic fleet in 1891-1895 he was provided, among others, the construction of armored ships with shallow draft and heavy armament, designed for operations in inland seas, and defence of the coast. Simultaneously with the elaboration of the project attempts were made to obtain information about the foreign “the latest coastal ironclads and gun-boats”. From late 1889 to June 1891 MTC under the guidance of senior naval architect E. E. Gulyaev consistently prepared preliminary designs of the armored ships with a displacement of 3850 to 5500 tons.

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MANNED ELECTRIC MULTICOPTER

MANNED QUADCOPTERThe engineers of the German company E-Volo for the first time took to the air piloted quadcopter is like a helicopter flying machine, equipped with many small screws. With this design it is quite compact, lightweight and inexpensive. Multicopter with several screws already in place, but still, they were unmanned and controlled by radio.

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THE MECHANISM OF EDITING OF MEMORY

THE MECHANISM OF EDITING OF MEMORYThrough the study of Dutch scientists to save people from a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders ranging from a variety of phobias and ending with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Researchers from the free University of Amsterdam discovered the molecular mechanism that allows the brain to edit the memory, in particular to forget unpleasant memories.

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CHAIR BED

CHAIR-BEDOffer your variant of the design of the armchairs, on the basis of which you can make a new seat or redo is available. In my order was old, from a set of upholstered furniture “Narspi”. Alteration it was. The seat of a chair (Fig.1) at an angle — I had to make it horizontal. Below him to both sides of the seat put two strips 4 which serve as guides for the sliding part of the lounger. To increase the stiffness of the main structure side of the chair connected crossbar 2 and the rear panel 5 (used the existing chair). Connection — with the help of furniture parts and screws. Retractable parts are collected separately.

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