Project Nike - Project Nike Project Nike was a US Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system in 1953, the Nike Ajax. A huge number of the technologies and rocket systems used to develop the Nike Ajax were re-used in a number of roles, many of which gained the "Nike" name. The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for everything from the Nike Hercules missile to NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Nike Ajax 2..1 Specifications (Nike Ajax) 3 Nike Hercules 4 Nike Zeus 5 See also History Project Nike began in 1944 when the US military demanded a.
Nike - Nike In Greek mythology, Nike was 'victory', personified as a goddess. A company that specializes in sports goods named after the Greek goddess. See Nike, Inc The named used to designate a type of nuclear missile deployed throughout major cities of the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s. See Project Nike. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Nike-Hercules Missile - Nike-Hercules Missile The Nike-Hercules Missile, Designation MIM-14, was a solid propellant surface to ground missile developed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War as a last defense against invading forces into the US and as a Anti-missile system. The missile was designed to destroy enemy bombers and enemy bomber formations. Western Electric, Bell Laboratories, and Douglas Aircraft Company were the chief contractors for the missiles. The Nike-Hercules Missile can be fitted with either a Nuclear Warhead, W-31 type, or a conventional T-45 fragmenting warhead. The missile is 41 feet 6 inches long with a wingspan of 6 feet 2 inches. 145 batteries of missiles were deployed during the cold war. The missile had a range of about 110 miles. When it became apparent.
Anti-ballistic missile - operation during the first Persian Gulf War nearly fifty years later against the V-2's direct descendant, the Iraqi Scud missile. The American armed forces began experimenting with anti-missile missiles shortly after World War II, as the extent of German research into rocketry became clear. But defenses against Soviet long-range bombers took priority until the later 1950s, when the Soviets began to test their missiles (most notably via the Sputnik launch in October 1957). The first experimental ABM system was Nike Zeus, a modification of existing air defense systems. Nike Zeus proved unworkable, and so work proceeded with Nike X. Another avenue of research by the US was the test explosions of several hydrogen bombs at very high altitudes over the southern Atlantic ocean, launched from ships. When such an explosion takes.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty - late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads. During this period the US maintained a lead in the number and sophistication of their delivery systems, and considered the defense of the US as a part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange. As part of this defence, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command (now called NORAD). By the early 1960s the US research on the Nike Zeus missile system (see Project Nike) had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a "real" ABM system. Work started on a short range, high speed counterpart known.
ASAT weapon development - began tests of such a system in 1959 but initial results were very discouraging, the first test launch missed by over 6,000 m, and after further failures the project was halted in 1963. Simultaneous US Navy projects were also abandoned although smaller projects did drag on until the early 1970s. The USSR began a similar program in 1967 and actually built and deployed ASAT missiles from around 1976. Stung by the Russian deployment the USAF revived its own ASAT program. From 1977 Vought developed an ASAT to attack satellites in LEO, the three stage missile was fired by a F-15 in a steep climb and carried a miniature homing vehicle (MHV) to track and then destroy the target kinetically. The first test was in 1983 and the first successful interception, of.
Consumer rights - corporations which manufacture them, including information involving labor, environment, and animal welfare. In the 2003 US Supreme Court decision, Nike vs. Kasky, a labor activist named Marc Kasky sued Nike for allegedly sending brochures to potential customers containing false information about Nike's labor practices (for example, claiming Third World factory workers were paid twice the minimum wage, when in reality, some of Nike's Third World factory workers were paid less than the minimum wage). Nike asked the Supreme Court to throw the case out of court without a trial, on the grounds that Nike's free-speech would be chilled if the case went forward. In a decision which pleased some consumer rights activists, the Supreme Court ruled that opponents of Nike can have their day in court. Nike proceeded to reach an.
Twistor memory - X and Y lines do not both have to be driven in order to read a bit, instead only the Y is used and the X can be used as the sense line. Each of the X lines in a stack of twistor can then be read at the same time. Oddly enough, twistor typically also included a single plane of core. In this case the core was used to select which solenoid to power, as opposed to being used as memory, the single magnetized core feeding power into a particular solenoid. This is actually the original purpose of core, to select a single element out of an X and Y grid of powered lines, the concept of using the generated magnetic field as a storage system developed later. The major.
SAGE - the bombers attacked at low level. Radar is line-of-sight, so by approaching close to the ground they would remain hidden behind the curvature of the Earth until approaching to within a few tens of miles. With a jet bomber, this meant the defenders had only a few minutes to react, far too little time to launch an interceptor. Automation It was this problem that particularly bothered Dr. George Valley, an MIT physics professor. His solution was automation, connecting all of the radar sites to a computer which would then control all of the incoming and outgoing flow of information. The interception operator's workload would be greatly reduced; they simply had to tell the computer which targets to attack, and perhaps choose what assets to use. All of the communications would be.
Wasserfall missile - operational status although it was well developed and likely ready for operation, and the project was cancelled in February 1945. After World War II, the Wasserfall design was used as a basis for the American Project Nike surface-to-air missile system. History Wasserfall was essentially an anti-aircraft development of the V2 rocket, sharing the same general layout and shaping, but being about 1/4 the size and including an additional set of fins located at the middle of the fuselage to provide extra lift while manuvering. Unlike the V2, Wasserfall was designed to stand ready for periods of up to a month and fire on command, therefore the volative liquid oxygen used in the V2 was inappropriate. The resulting engine, developed by Dr. Thiel, was based on Visol (vinyl isobutyl ether) and SV-Stoff,.
National Missile Defense - in nuclear strategy has been a heated topic for several decades. (See also: Anti-ballistic missile) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History of NMD 1.1 Nike-Zeus Program 1.2 Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept (BAMBI) 1.3 The Sentinel Program 1.4 The Strategic Defense Initiative 1.5 President Bush's NMD Program 1.5.1 Key equipment 1.6 Recent developments 1.7 July 2003 Report of the American Physical Society 2 References History of NMD Nike-Zeus Program In the late 1950s the Nike-Zeus program investigated the use of Nike nuclear missles as interceptors against Soviet ICBMs. A Nike warhead would be detonated at high altitudes (60+ miles) above the polar regions in the near vicinity of an incoming Soviet missile. While rocket technology offered some hope of a solution, the problem of how to quickly identify and track incoming missiles.
KnowledgeWeb Project - KnowledgeWeb Project The KnowledgeWeb Project is a learning web site about knowledge envisioned and supervised by James Burke and the James Burke Institute for Innovation in Education. It is a non-profit, all volunteer project. The mission of the site is to present knowledge in a highly interconnected, holistic way. The goal is not only to inform about the scientists, artists, innovators and explorers of history but also to find the connections between them and impact they have had on modern life. Initially the Knowledge Web will have 2200 entries linked over 16,000 ways. Later it will grow to include a theoretically unlimited amount of information. In later phases data visualization technologies will allow users visual interaction with the contents of the site. The project is looking for.
VENONA project - VENONA project This is most definitely a work in progress, much of this information is written from memory. Please contribute more information and references! The VENONA project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between the United States intelligence agencies and England's MI5. US Army codebreakers had intercepted large volumes of encrypted high-level Soviet diplomatic and intelligence traffic during and immediately after World War II. The British had stopped intercepting Soviet traffic, at Churchill's orders, shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and had no traffic to contibute to the project after that time. This traffic, some of which was thought to be encrypted with a one-time pad system, was stored and analyzed in relative secrecy by hundreds of cryptanalysts over a 40-year period starting.
Jakarta Project - Jakarta Project The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source solutions in Java. Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as: Ant - a build tool Maven - a project build tool OJB Slide Struts Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container Torque Turbine Velocity - a template engine POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats. Jakarta is under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation..
Kyla Pratt - such as The Proud Family show, where she does a voice-over. She has done many commercials, including one for Nike where she played basketball, and she also participated in the television series of The Smart Guy, where she also plays basketball with Tahj Mowry, the show's star, in one of the episodes. As a movie actress, she was in the movie Dr. Dolittle and its sequel, playing Maya Dolittle alongside Eddie Murphy..
John Hench - in the studio's live action department, as lead developer of the hydraulic giant squid in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, helping to win an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the film. After working on that live action project, he moved to WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering), to design attractions for Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort Paris and Tokyo Disneyland. One of John's most recognizable works, however, is the well known Olympic Torch. Nearly all of the most recent versions have been modeled after his design for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. In addition to all of these lengthy achievements, John also was the "official portrait artist" to the big cheese himself, Mickey Mouse. Still working for Disney at the age of 95, he was.
Karl Guthe Jansky - every 24 hours, but every 23 hours and 56 minutes. This is characteristic of the fixed stars, and other objects far from our solar system (sidereal day). He eventually figured out that the radiation was coming from the Milky Way and was strongest in the direction of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation of Sagittarius. The discovery was widely publicized, appearing in the New York Times of May 5, 1933. Jansky wanted to follow up on this discovery and investigate the radio waves from the Milky Way Galaxy in more detail. He proposed to Bell Labs to build a 30 meter diameter dish antenna. But Bell Labs had the answer they wanted about static: the static was not a problem for transatlantic radio communication. Jansky was assigned.
Veloute sauce - Wikipedia Cookbook. Source: ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes'' from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary..
Venetian soup - little soup, strain off, put them into the tureen and pour a good clear soup over them. See also: Wikipedia Cookbook. Source: ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes'' from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary..
Kansai International Airport - man-made island, 4 km long and 1 km wide, was proposed. Engineers faced the risk of earthquakes (very high) and typhoons (with storm surges of up to 3 meters). Construction started in 1987. The sea wall was finished in 1989 (made of rocks and 48,000 tetrahedral concrete blocks). Three mountains were excavated for 21 million cubic meters of landfill. 10,000 workers and 10 million work hours over 3 years, using 80 ships, were needed to complete the thirty-meter layer of earth over the sea floor and inside the sea wall. In 1990, a three-kilometer bridge was completed to connect the island to the mainland at Rinku-Town, at a cost of $1 billion. By then, the island had sunk 8 meters (far more than predicted) and the project became the most expensive.
