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The start button now has a fade-in highlight effect when the user hovers over it with the mouse cursor. The right column of the Start menu is now prominently the Aero Glass color; in Windows Vista, it was predominantly black regardless of the color in use. The search results pane in Windows 7, demonstrating a search for the word "wireless"
A distinctive feature of Windows Aero showing "glass-like" window borders on Windows 7. Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) [1] [2] is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface ...
A free-piston gas generator is a free-piston engine whose exhaust is used to power a gas turbine. It combines the functions of compressor and combustion chamber in one unit. These machines were quite widely used in the period 1930–1960 but then fell out of favour. [1]
Huff-Daland XHB-1 3A-2500 1926, Geared propeller drive option, 800 hp. 175 built. 4A-2500 1927, fitted with a supercharger, 900 hp. One built. 5A-2500 1930, experimental use only, 1500 hp. One built. 3M-2500 Marine version [citation needed] 4M-2500 Marine version, 1200 hp (895 kW), subsequently upgraded in stages to 1500 hp (1,150 kW ...
The LMS100 comprises a low-pressure compressor, an intercooler, a supercore and a power turbine. The supercore (comprising a HP compressor, compressor rear frame, high-pressure turbine and intermediate pressure turbine) is a further development of the LM6000, which in turn was based on the CF6-80C2. The low-pressure compressor is from the 6FA ...
Frutiger Aero visuals in user interface design (KDE Plasma 4 from 2011)Frutiger Aero (/ f r uː t ɪ ɡ ə r ɛ ə r ə ʊ /), sometimes known as Web 2.0 Gloss, [1] is a retrospective name applied to a design trend observed mainly in user interfaces and Internet aesthetics from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s. [2]
The Faraday generator is named for Michael Faraday's experiments on moving charged particles in the Thames River. A simple Faraday generator consists of a wedge-shaped pipe or tube of some non-conductive material. When an electrically conductive fluid flows through the tube, in the presence of a significant perpendicular magnetic field, a ...
Hispano-Suiza 8 engines and variants produced by Hispano-Suiza and other companies under licence were built in twenty-one factories in Spain, France, Britain, Italy, and the U.S. [1] Derivatives of the engine were also used abroad to power numerous aircraft types and the engine can be considered as the ancestor of another successful engine by ...