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In 1957, she was sold to Hugo Neu Corporation of New York City and was used then as a power facility abroad by the International Steel and Metal Corporation. In 1959, she was renamed Somerset. [4] MH-1A, the first floating nuclear powership. The first floating nuclear reactor ship was the MH-1A, used in the Panama canal zone from 1968 to 1975.
The masts of this line were designed for eventual upgrade to 380 kV. However the first transmission at 380 kV in Germany was on October 5, 1957 between the substations in Rommerskirchen and Ludwigsburg–Hoheneck. The world's first 380 kV power line was built in Sweden, the 952 km Harsprånget – Hallsberg line in 1952.
Blyth's windmill at his cottage in Marykirk in 1891 Wind powered generators were used on ships by the end of the 19th century, as seen on the New Zealand sailing ship "Chance" (1902). The first wind turbine used for the production of electricity was built in Scotland in July 1887 by Prof James Blyth of Anderson's College, Glasgow (the precursor ...
1911 – Selandia launched – First ocean-going, diesel engine-driven ship. 1912 - The world's first diesel locomotive (a diesel-mechanical locomotive) was operated in the summer of 1912 on the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway in Switzerland. 1912 - Articulated trams, invented and first used by the Boston Elevated Railway. [37]
In May 2012, the vessel became the first solar electric vehicle ever to circumnavigate the globe taking 584 days between 2010 and 2012. [3] The boat was renamed Race for Water in 2015, after the name of the foundation which then operated the vessel and was dedicated to water conservation missions and to protect the oceans from plastic pollution ...
Used early on in electrical generation and to power ships, turbines were bladed wheels that created rotary motion when high pressure steam was passed through them. The efficiency of large steam turbines was considerably better than the best compound engines, while also being much simpler, more reliable, smaller and lighter all at the same time ...
The transmitter Witzleben uses the new standard with 441 lines and 25 image changes, i.e. 50 fields of 220 half-lines. Until the HDTV era the interlace method remains in use. First movie encoder make it possible not to send the TV live, but to rely on recordings. 1938 The improved AEG tape-recorder "Magnetophon K4" is first used in radio studios.
Columbia was the first ship to carry a dynamo powering electric lights instead of oil lamps and the first commercial use of electric light bulbs outside of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory. [7] [11] [12] Due to this, a detailed article and composite illustration of Columbia was featured in the May 1880 issue of Scientific ...