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The Time Monster is the fifth and final serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 20 May to 24 June 1972. The serial is set in a village near Cambridge as well as the mythical city of Atlantis. In the serial, the alien time traveller the ...
January 1, 1985. ( 1985-01-01) [1] Running time. 42 minutes. Country. United States. Chronos ( / ˈkrɒnoʊs / KRON-ohs) [2] is a 1985 abstract film directed by Ron Fricke, created with custom-built time-lapse cameras. Originally released in IMAX theaters, it is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD .
Kairos. Kairos ( Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. [1] In modern Greek, kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for ' time '; the other being chronos ( χρόνος ).
NOV Tower in the Westchase district of Houston. NOV Inc., formerly National Oilwell Varco, is an American multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas.It is a worldwide provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry.
Langlade County was created on March 3, 1879, as New County. It was renamed Langlade County, in honor of Charles de Langlade, on February 20, 1880, and fully organized on February 19, 1881. [3] The county's original borders extended northward from the top of Shawano County up to the Michigan state line. Between 1881 and 1885, the borders of ...
Kronos Foods, Inc., is a Chicago-based company which is a foodservice manufacturer of Mediterranean food in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gyros in the world. [1] [2] Kronos Foods is known for being one of the first to produce, standardize, and market gyro cones (an argument exists as to who exactly was the first to "invent ...
CDC Kronos. Kronos is an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1971. [1] Kronos ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series mainframe computers and their successors. CDC replaced Kronos with the NOS operating system in the late 1970s, which were succeeded by the NOS/VE operating system in the mid-1980s.
The Shortt–Synchronome clock, an electrical driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself. [167] A succession of innovations and discoveries led to the invention of the modern quartz timer. The vacuum tube oscillator was invented in 1912. [168]