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Turtle (also called American Turtle) was the world's first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor, for use against the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
Bushnell Corporation is an American firm that specializes in sporting optics and outdoor products. It is based in Overland Park, Kansas and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vista Outdoor . Bushnell makes binoculars , telescopes , spotting scopes , riflescopes , red dot sights , GPS devices , laser rangefinders , game cameras , night-vision ...
A Battery: Eveready 742: 1.5 V: Metal tabs H: 101.6 L: 63.5 W: 63.5 Used to provide power to the filament of a vacuum tube. B Battery: Eveready 762-S: 45 V: Threaded posts H: 146 L: 104.8 W: 63.5 Used to supply plate voltage in vintage vacuum tube equipment. Origin of the term B+ for plate voltage power supplies.
Halle Berry dons the Elie Saab gown she wore when making Academy Awards history as the first Black woman to win a best actress Oscar at the 1001 Seasons of Elie Saab fashion show.
A dyno torch, dynamo torch, or squeeze flashlight is a flashlight or pocket torch which generates energy via a flywheel. The user repeatedly squeezes a handle to spin a flywheel inside the flashlight, attached to a small generator/dynamo, supplying electric current to an incandescent bulb or light-emitting diode. The flashlight must be pumped ...
LeBron James recently announced that he’s taking a hiatus from social media “for the time being.”. Initially responding to a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) from Kevin Durant’s ...
Amazon has introduced a handful of robots in its warehouses that the e-commerce giant says will improve efficiency and reduce employee injuries.. Two robotic arms named Robin and Cardinal can lift ...
A 16th-century Islamic painting depicting Alexander the Great being lowered in a glass submersible. The concept of underwater transport has roots deep in antiquity. There are images of men using hollow sticks to breathe underwater for hunting at the temples at Thebes, and the first known military use occurred during the siege of Syracuse (415–413 BC), where divers cleared obstructions ...