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1Walter Thiel — On November 1, 1932, Dr Walter Thiel (March 2 1910 August 18 1943) was the third civilian hired by Walter Dornberger for German research at Kummersdorf (after Wernher von Braun Heinrich Grünow) and in 1936, transferred to Dornberger s new rocket… …
2STS-80 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 80 insignia = Sts 80 patch.png shuttle = Columbia launch pad = 39 B launch = November 19, 1996, 2:55:47 p.m EST landing = December 7, 1996, 6:49:05 a.m. EST, KSC duration = 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes,… …
3Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… …
4Oil burner — This article is about the heating device. For a meaning related to engines, see Oil burner (engine). An oil burner for domestic central heating An oil burner is a heating device which burns fuel oil. The oil is atomized in to a fine spray usually …
5pump — pump1 pumpable, adj. pumpless, adj. pumplike, adj. /pump/, n. 1. an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes. 2. Engin., Building Trades. a shore …
6turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …
7Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket — Artist s impression of several VASIMR engines propelling a craft through space The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electro magnetic thruster for spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and heat a… …
8Gas tungsten arc welding — TIG welding of a bronze sculpture Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), also known as tungsten inert gas (TIG …
9Electrical discharge machining — An electrical discharge machine Electric discharge machining (EDM), sometimes colloquially also referred to as spark machining, spark eroding, burning, die sinking or wire erosion,[1] is a manufacturing process whereby a desired shape is obtained …
10Gas core reactor rocket — Gas core reactor rockets are a conceptual type of rocket that is propelled by the exhausted coolant of a gaseous fission reactor. The nuclear fission reactor core may be either a gas or plasma. They may be capable of creating specific impulses of …
