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ERA Gold Portfolio, 1934–1994, Brooklands Books - compilation of historic and contemporary articles on ERA and includes the full text of John Lloyd's The Story of ERA ERA: The History of English Racing Automobiles , David Weguelin, White Mouse Press: expensive and scarce but hugely detailed and profusely illustrated book covering the ...
Engineering personnel flash of the Irish Naval Service. Engine room artificer (ERA) is a specialised position in the crews of naval vessels – especially those of the British Royal Navy (RN) and other Commonwealth navies. An ERA is usually a fitter and turner, boilermaker, coppersmith or enginesmith. On larger vessels, there are several ERAs ...
Engineering Research Associates, commonly known as ERA, was a pioneering computer firm from the 1950s. ERA became famous for their numerical computers, but as the market expanded they became better known for their drum memory systems. They were eventually purchased by Remington Rand and merged into their UNIVAC department.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game (RTS). [4] [5] [6] The player takes the role of either the Human inhabitants of Azeroth, or the invading Orcs.[7] [8] In the single player campaign mode the player works through a series of missions, the objective of which varies, but usually involves building a small town, harvesting resources, building an army and then leading it to ...
The schematic is a line diagram, not necessarily to scale, that describes interconnection of components in a system. The main features of a schematic drawing show: A two dimensional layout with divisions that show distribution of the system between building levels, or an isometric-style layout that shows distribution of systems across ...
The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, [1] is a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington Rand corporation in October 1953. It was the first computer for which Seymour Cray was credited with design work.
This computer was 38 ft (12 m) long, 20 ft (6.1 m) wide, weighed about 8.4 short tons (7.6 t) [3] [7] [8] and used 2700 vacuum tubes for its logic circuits. Its drum memory was 8.5 in (22 cm) in diameter, rotated at 3500 rpm, had 200 read-write heads, and held 16,384 24-bit words (a memory size equivalent to 48 kB ) with access time between 32 ...
Until the late 19th century, first-angle projection was the norm in North America as well as Europe; [7] [8] but circa the 1890s, third-angle projection spread throughout the North American engineering and manufacturing communities to the point of becoming a widely followed convention, [7] [8] and it was an ASA standard by the 1950s. [8]