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Thermo King. Thermo King is an American manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for refrigerator trucks and trailers, refrigerated containers and refrigerated railway cars along with heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for bus and passenger rail applications. Headquartered in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington ...
Frederick McKinley Jones. Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1] Jones innovated mobile refrigeration technology. Jones received 61 patents, including 40 for ...
The Tiger II was under-powered, like many other heavy tanks of World War II [citation needed], and consumed a lot of fuel, which was in short supply for the Germans. The transmission was the Maybach OLVAR OG 40 12 16 Model B, giving eight forward gears and four reverse, which drove the steering gear.
The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan [5] or Vanya ), also known by the alphanumerical designation " AN602 ", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. [6] [7] The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov ...
Thermopylae is the site of the Battle of Thermopylae between the Greek forces (including Spartans, Thebans and Thespians) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides of Ceos in the epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here obedient to their laws we lie." Thermopylae is the only land route large enough to bear ...
The Battle of Thermopylae, on 24–25 April 1941, was part of the German invasion of Greece during World War II. Background [ edit ] Following the retreat of Allied forces from the mountain passes at Olympus and Servia , British Commonwealth forces began to set up defensive positions at the coastal pass at Thermopylae , famous for the Battle of ...
1886 – Westinghouse Electric Company founded in East Pittsburgh [36] 1886 – William Stanley, Jr. installs the world's first operational transformer based multiple voltage transmission system, a demonstration lighting system in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. 1888 – development of an induction ampere-hour meter for alternating current ...
Father of All Bombs. Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power ( ATBIP ), [a] nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" ( FOAB; Russian: "Папа всех бомб", Пвб [b] ), is a Russian-designed, bomber -delivered thermobaric weapon . This weapon was claimed to be the most powerful conventional (non- nuclear) weapon in the world, more powerful ...