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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, formerly of the United States Navy, built by Bath Iron Works in Maine in 1958. Her home port was Long Beach , California and she initially served in the Western Pacific/Far East, operating particularly in the Taiwan Strait and off the coast of Vietnam .
Diagram illustrating the effects of moving the slide of a brass instrument. Date: 5 August 2007: Source: Created by bdesham in Inkscape. Author: Benjamin D. Esham : Permission (Reusing this file) As a courtesy (but not a requirement), please e-mail me or leave a note on my talk page if you use this image outside of Wikipedia. Thanks!
The Dorothy was designed by Horace See and built in 1890 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia for Captain James P. Sheffield of Norfolk. [4] The tugboat was named for Dorothy Whitney , the daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney .
USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
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The first of these types was the Stölzel valve, bearing the name of its inventor Heinrich Stölzel, who first applied these valves to the French horn in 1814. Until that point, there had been no successful valve design, and horn players had to stop off the bell of the instrument, greatly compromising tone quality to achieve a partial chromatic scale.