target development laboratory

— advanced concepts laboratory

— Air Force Weapons laboratory

— armaments laboratory

— Army Aeromedical Research laboratory

— Army Aeronautical Research laboratory

— Army Air Mobility R&D laboratory

— Army Ballistics Research laboratory

— Army Biochemical laboratory

— Army Biological R&D laboratory

— Army Chemical Systems laboratory

— Army Construction Engineering Research laboratory

— Army Engineer Topographic laboratoryies

— Army Fuel and Lubricants Research laboratory

— Army Medical Research and Nutrition laboratory

— Army Night Vision laboratory

— Army Special Weapons laboratory

— Army Tropical Research laboratory

— Atmospheric Sciences laboratory

— Avionics Development laboratory

— Bacteriological Warfare laboratory

— Ballistic Wound laboratory

— Behavioral Scientific Research laboratory

— Chemical &Radiological R&D laboratory

— chemical field laboratory

— Cold Regions Research and Engineering laboratory

— Combat Surveillance and Target Acquisition laboratory

— Concepts laboratory

— Criminal Investigation laboratory

— Electronics R&D laboratory

— Engineer R&D laboratory

— EW laboratory

— field laboratory

— Fire Control and Small Caliber Weapons Systems laboratory

— general medical service laboratory

— Geophysical laboratory

— Human Engineering laboratory

— Human Factors Operation Research laboratory

— Jungle laboratory

— Land Warfare laboratory

— Large Caliber Weapon Systems laboratory

— Limited War laboratory

— major thrust lead laboratory

— Medical Bioengineering R&D laboratory

— medical general laboratory

— military orbital laboratory

— mobile fuel testing laboratory

— Naval Weapons laboratory

— Nuclear Defense laboratory

— Ordnance Investigation laboratory

— ordnance laboratory

— Organizations and Systems Research laboratory

— Personnel and Training Research laboratory

— Radiological Defense laboratory

— Rocket Propulsion laboratory

— Signal Corps Engineering laboratory

— Signals Warfare laboratory

— Tactical Imagery Processing laboratory

— Tank Automotive Systems laboratory

— USAF Epidemiological laboratory

— USN Mine Defense laboratory

— weapons effects laboratory

— weapons laboratory

1) Компьютерная техника: Target Description Language, Taxis Design Language

2) Спорт: Team Dueling League

3) Военный термин: tactical data link, target development laboratory, technical documents list, telemetry data link, threshold damage level, threshold detection level, toxic dose, low

4) Техника: tapped delay line

5) Религия: The Dark Library

6) Грубое выражение: Too Damn Loud

7) Оптика: tunable diode laser

8) Вычислительная техника: transistor-diode logic, tunnel-diode logic

9) Нефть: temperature difference log, thermal decay log

10) Иммунология: thoracic duct lymphocyte

11) Транспорт: Transportation Development Levy, Transportation Distribution And Logistics

12) Фирменный знак: The Diamond Lane, Tokyo Disney Land, Tokyo Disneyland, Tulip Development Laboratory, Turfgrass Diagnostic Laboratory

13) Деловая лексика: To Do List

14) Бурение: ГИС через бурильную колонну, геофизические исследования скважины через бурильную колонну, каротаж через бурильную колонну, through drill stem logging, through drill-stem logging, through drillstem logging

15) Образование: Teaching Diverse Learners

16) Автоматика: task description language

1) Компьютерная техника: Target Description Language, Taxis Design Language

2) Спорт: Team Dueling League

3) Военный термин: tactical data link, target development laboratory, technical documents list, telemetry data link, threshold damage level, threshold detection level, toxic dose, low

4) Техника: tapped delay line

5) Религия: The Dark Library

6) Грубое выражение: Too Damn Loud

7) Оптика: tunable diode laser

8) Вычислительная техника: transistor-diode logic, tunnel-diode logic

9) Нефть: temperature difference log, thermal decay log

10) Иммунология: thoracic duct lymphocyte

11) Транспорт: Transportation Development Levy, Transportation Distribution And Logistics

12) Фирменный знак: The Diamond Lane, Tokyo Disney Land, Tokyo Disneyland, Tulip Development Laboratory, Turfgrass Diagnostic Laboratory

13) Деловая лексика: To Do List

14) Бурение: ГИС через бурильную колонну, геофизические исследования скважины через бурильную колонну, каротаж через бурильную колонну, through drill stem logging, through drill-stem logging, through drillstem logging

15) Образование: Teaching Diverse Learners

16) Автоматика: task description language

SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Metallurgy

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Coolidge obtained his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1896, and his PhD (physics) from the University of Leipzig in 1899. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT in 1904, and in 1905 he joined the staff of the General Electric Company's research laboratory at Schenectady. In 1905 Schenectady was trying to make tungsten-filament lamps to counter the competition of the tantalum-filament lamps then being produced by their German rival Siemens. The first tungsten lamps made by Just and Hanaman in Vienna in 1904 had been too fragile for general use. Coolidge and his life-long collaborator, Colin G. Fink, succeeded in 1910 by hot-working directly dense sintered tungsten compacts into wire. This success was the result of a flash of insight by Coolidge, who first perceived that fully recrystallized tungsten wire was always brittle and that only partially work-hardened wire retained a measure of ductility. This grasped, a process was developed which induced ductility into the wire by hot-working at temperatures below those required for full recrystallization, so that an elongated fibrous grain structure was progressively developed. Sintered tungsten ingots were swaged to bar at temperatures around 1,500°C and at the end of the process ductile tungsten filament wire was drawn through diamond dies around 550°C. This process allowed General Electric to dominate the world lamp market. Tungsten lamps consumed only one-third the energy of carbon lamps, and for the first time the cost of electric lighting was reduced to that of gas. Between 1911 and 1914, manufacturing licences for the General Electric patents had been granted for most of the developed work. The validity of the General Electric monopoly was bitterly contested, though in all the litigation that followed, Coolidge's fibering principle was upheld. Commercial arrangements between General Electric and European producers such as Siemens led to the name "Osram" being commonly applied to any lamp with a drawn tungsten filament. In 1910 Coolidge patented the use of thoria as a particular additive that greatly improved the high-temperature strength of tungsten filaments. From this development sprang the technique of "dispersion strengthening", still being widely used in the development of high-temperature alloys in the 1990s. In 1913 Coolidge introduced the first controllable hot-cathode X-ray tube, which had a tungsten target and operated in vacuo rather than in a gaseous atmosphere. With this equipment, medical radiography could for the first time be safely practised on a routine basis. During the First World War, Coolidge developed portable X-ray units for use in field hospitals, and between the First and Second World Wars he introduced between 1 and 2 million X-ray machines for cancer treatment and for industrial radiography. He became Director of the Schenectady laboratory in 1932, and from 1940 until 1944 he was Vice-President and Director of Research. After retirement he was retained as an X-ray consultant, and in this capacity he attended the Bikini atom bomb trials in 1946. Throughout the Second World War he was a member of the National Defence Research Committee.

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— abortive missile

— absolute missile

— acoustic target-seeking missile

— active-homing missile

— aerobreathing missile

— aerodynamically supported missile

— A-head missile

— aim a missile

— aimed missile

— airborne antiaircraft missile

— airborne missile

— air-breathing missile

— aircraft interceptor missile

— aircraft-launched missile

— aircraft-like missile

— aircraft-shaped missile

— aircraft-type missile

— air-defense Interceptor missile

— air-dependent missile

— air-fired missile

— air-launched missile

— air-supported missile

— air-to-air missile

— air-to-ground missile

— air-to-ship missile

— air-to-space missile

— air-to-surface missile

— air-to-underwater missile

— air-transportable missile

— all-aspect missile

— all-purpose missile

— all-weather missile

— antiaircraft missile

— anti-antiaircraft missile

— antiarmoured-fighting-vehicle missile

— antiballistic-missile missile

— anti-lCBM missile

— antimechanized missile

— antimissile missile

— antiradar missile

— antiradiation missile

— antirocket missile

— antisatellite missile

— antishipping missile

— antisubmarine rocket missile

— antitactical-ballistic-missile missile

— antitank missile

— area-defense missile

— armed missile

— army missile

— artillery missile

— assault missile

— atmospheric missile

— autoguided missile

— automatic missile

— aviation missile

— azon missile

— ballistic missile

— balloon-type missile

— bank-to-turn missile

— basic missile

— battlefield missile

— bazooka-launched missile

— beam-launched missile

— beam-rider missile

— beam-riding missile

— bipropellant missile

— boat-tailed missile

— bombardment missile

— bomber defense missile

— bomber-launched missile

— boosted missile

— boost-glide missile

— breathing missile

— buried missile

— cable-controlled missile

— cable-guided missile

— captive missile

— carrier missile

— cartesian missile

— catapult-launched missile

— checked-out missile

— chemical missile

— clean missile

— close air-support missile

— close-in missile

— close-support missile

— cluster missile

— coasting missile

— cocked missile

— cocooned missile

— collision-course missile

— combat-area missile

— command guidance missile

— commanded missile

— command-guided missile

— command-homing missile

— component test missile

— composite missile

— constant-bearing missile

— contra-orbit missile

— controlled missile

— counterair missile

— counter-air-to-surface missile missile

— counterballistic-missile missile

— countermeasures missile

— countermissile missile

— countersatellite missile

— counter-surface-to-surface missile

— cruciform missile

— cruise-type missile

— cruising missile

— dart missile

— dart-wing missile

— daughter missile

— deceive a missile

— decoy missile

— defense missile

— defensive missile

— demolition missile

— development missile

— direct a missile

— direct-fire missile

— direct-hit missile

— diversionary missile

— dogfight missile

— drill missile

— dual-purpose missile

— dummy missile

— eject a missile

— electronic-countermeasures carrying missile

— electro-optically guided missile

— encapsulated missile

— endo-atmospheric missile

— erect a missile

— erratic missile

— exoatmospheric missile

— expendable missile

— experimental missile

— explosive warhead missile

— extraterrestrial missile

— field missile

— field-artillery missile

— fighter-launched missile

— finless missile

— finned missile

— fin-stabilized missile

— fire missiles

— first-generation missile

— fixed-site missile

— fixed-wing missile

— fleet missile

— flexible missile

— flight missile

— flight-ready missile

— foil a missile

— free-flight missile

— free-rolling missile

— fueled missile

— fully-active homing missile

— fuselage missile

— future-generation missile

— general purpose missile

— glide missile

— global missile

— gravity-powered missile

— ground missile

— ground-based missile

— ground-guided missile

— ground-launched missile

— ground-support missile

— ground-to-air missile

— ground-to-ground missile

— ground-to-sea missile

— ground-to-space missile

— ground-to-underwater missile

— guidance evaluation missile

— guidance missile

— guided missile

— gyro-controlled missile

— hammerhead missile

— healthy missile

— heat-homing missile

— heat-seeking missile

— heat-shielded missile

— helicopter-launched missile

— helicopter-to-surface missile

— high-acceleration missile

— high-altitude missile

— homing missile

— horizontally-launched missile

— hydrogen-armed missile

— hypersonic missile

— hypervelocity missile

— inaccurate missile

— incoming missile

— infighting missile

— inflexible missile

— interception missile

— Interceptor missile

— intercontinental ballistic missile

— intermediate-range missile

— internally-guided missile

— jam-proof guided missile

— jet-drone missile

— jet-vane-con trolled missile

— laboratory missile

— laser-guided missile

— lateral-staging missile

— launch a missile

— lead-angle guided missile

— light-seeking missile

— line-of-sight missile

— local-defense missile

— long-range missile

— low-altitude missile

— low-aspect ratio missile

— lower fuselage missile

— low-launch missile

— low-level missile

— main missile

— maneuverable missile

— man-portable missile

— medium-range missile

— midrange missile

— missile in boost

— missile-defense missile

— missile-interceptor missile

— mobile missile

— mock-up missile

— monoplane missile

— monowing missile

— mother missile

— moving-wing missile

— multiple-launched missile

— multiple-nozzle missile

— multiple-stage missile

— multiple-step missile

— multipurpose missile

— multistage missile

— multistep missile

— nonexpendable missile

— nonguided missile

— nonnuclear missile

— nonoperational missile

— nonrecoverable missile

— nonreflective missile

— nonrocket-assisted missile

— nonrolling missile

— nonslender missile

— nuclear-powered missile

— nuclear-ramjet-powered missile

— nuclear-tipped missile

— nuclear-warhead missile

— nuclear-warhead-carrying missile

— offensive missile

— oncoming missile

— one-and-a-half stage missile

— one-man missile

— one-shot missile

— one-stage missile

— one-step missile

— operational missile

— optically-tracked missile

— orbital missile

— ordnance missile

— outer-space missile

— outmaneuver the missile

— parachute-test missile

— parallel-cluster missile

— passive-guided missile

— passive-homing missile

— pencil slim missile

— photo-recon missile

— pilotless missile

— point-defense missile

— polar-controlled missile

— position the missile

— position-stabilized missile

— powered missile

— practice missile

— preproduction missile

— propulsion missile

— prototype missile

— proximity-fuzed missile

— pulsejet missile

— pursuit-course missile

— radar-guided missile

— radar-homing missile

— radar-tracked missile

— radio-controlled missile

— radio-guided missile

— ramjet-powered missile

— ramp-launched missile

— range-evaluation missile

— readied missile

— rearward-launched missile

— reconnaissance missile

— reentry missile

— retro-launched missile

— rocket-assisted missile

— rocket-boosted missile

— rolling missile

— roll-to-control missile

— rounded-nose missile

— satellite missile

— satellite-borne missile

— scaled-down missile

— scaled-up missile

— sea-based missile

— sea-borne missile

— sea-going missile

— sea-launched missile

— second-generation missile

— self-dependent missile

— self-directing missile

— self-guided missile

— semiactive missile

— semiballistic missile

— semirecessed missile

— service test missile

— service-training missile

— shaped-charge-warhead missile

— sharp-nosed missile

— - ship missile

— ship-based missile

— shipboard missile

— shipborne missile

— ship-defense missile

— ship-launched missile

— ship-to-air missile

— ship-to-ship missile

— ship-to-underwater missile

— shore-bombardment missile

— short-range missile

— shoulder-fired missile

— sight-guided missile

— silo-based missile

— siloed missile

— silo-launched missile

— silo-protected missile

— silo-stored missile

— single-stage missile

— slender missile

— slim missile

— soft-site missile

— space missile

— space-to-space missile

— space-to-surface missile

— spinning missile

— spin-stabilized missile

— stable missile

— staged missile

— stand-off missile

— static missile

— statically stable missile

— stellar-inertial guided missile

— stellar-tracker evaluation missile

— storable-fueled missile

— straightforward missile

— strategic missile

— sub-launched missile

— submarine-based missile

— submarine-borne missile

— submarine-defense missile

— submarine-launched missile

— subsonic missile

— supersonic missile

— supply missile

— surface-attack missile

— surface-launched missile

— surface-to-air missile

— surface-to-space missile

— surface-to-surface missile

— surface-to-underwater missile

— surveillance missile

— symmetrical missile

— tactical missile

— tail-control missile

— tail-first missile

— tandem missile

— tank-killer missile

— tank-killing missile

— target missile

— television-controlled missile

— television-equipped missile

— television-guided missile

— test missile

— third-generation missile

— three-stage missile

— thrust-augmented missile

— towering missile

— tower-launched missile

— tracker-equipped missile

— training missile

— transport missile

— triform missile

— triple-threat missile

— troop-training missile

— truck-mounted missile

— tube-launched missile

— turbojet missile

— two-stage missile

— unboosted missile

— uncontrolled missile

— underground-launched missile

— underwater-launched missile

— underwater-to-air missile

— underwater-to-air-to-underwater missile

— underwater-to-surface missile

— underwater-to-underwater missile

— unguided missile

— unhealthy missile

— unstable missile

— upgraded missile

— vehicle-launched missile

— vehicle-mounted missile

— vertical-launched missile

— very-high-acceleration missile

— war missile

— water-to-air missile

— wing-borne missile

— wing-control missile

— winged missile

— wingless missile

— wing-tip missile

— wire-controlled missile

— wire-guided missile

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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Following education at Stockport Grammar School, Williams entered Manchester University in 1929, gaining his BSc in 1932 and MSc in 1933. After a short time as a college apprentice with Metropolitan Vickers, he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study for a DPhil, which he was awarded in 1936. He returned to Manchester University that year as an assistant lecturer, gaining his DSc in 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he worked for the Scientific Civil Service, initially at the Bawdsey Research Station and then at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. There he was involved in research on non-incandescent amplifiers and diode rectifiers and the development of the first practical radar system capable of identifying friendly aircraft. Later in the war, he devised an automatic radar system suitable for use by fighter aircraft.

After the war he resumed his academic career at Manchester, becoming Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the University Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1946. In the same year he succeeded in developing a data-memory device based on the cathode ray tube, in which the information was stored and read by electron-beam scanning of a charge-retaining target. The Williams storage tube, as it became known, not only found obvious later use as a means of storing single-frame, still television images but proved to be a vital component of the pioneering Manchester University MkI digital computer. Because it enabled both data and program instructions to be stored in the computer, it was soon used worldwide in the development of the early stored-program computers.

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