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It was first assembled into individual boxes that were joined in multiples to construct docks, causeways, barges, dry docks, floating cranes, marine railways or whatever was needed. Capt. Carl A. Carlson CEC of the War Plans Office came up with the concept of NLPs in 1935, [ 1 ] but it was in 1940 that the US Navy looked at the idea more seriously.
This is clearly impossible in three-dimensional Euclidean geometry but possible in some non-Euclidean geometry like in nil geometry. [ 6 ] The "continuous staircase" was first presented in an article that the Penroses wrote in 1959, based on the so-called "triangle of Penrose" published by Roger Penrose in the British Journal of Psychology in ...
Penrose triangle. The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar, [1] or the impossible triangle, [2] is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing.
A Chinese magician’s trick of table floating was exposed by his partner, to the displeasure of his audience in Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province.In this video posted to Pokerface Man’s ...
The attack on the floating batteries at Gibraltar. Attached to marshal Broglie's force in 1780, he looked for ways to win the siege of Gibraltar. Attacking by land was impossible and so d’Arçon began designing "unsinkable and fire-proof batteries" intended to breakthrough from the coast in tandem with other batteries advancing the British ...
Float. A woodworking float (more rarely used in silversmithing), [1] also called a planemaker's float, is a tapered, flat, single cut file [2] of two types: edge float and the flat sided float [3] which are traditional woodworking tools generally used when making a wooden plane.
Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao, Project for Floating Cloud Structures (Cloud Nine), c. 1960. Cloud Nine is the name Buckminster Fuller gave to his proposed airborne habitats created from giant geodesic spheres, which might be made to levitate by slightly heating the air inside above the ambient temperature.
R/P FLIP (floating instrument platform) is an open ocean research platform [3] [6] that was owned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [7]