naval torpedo

1) Общая лексика: толщина воротникового пространства, ширина шейной прозрачности

2) Компьютерная техника: Needs A Terabyte, Network Termination, Null Type

3) Медицина: ширина шейной прозрачности ( nuchal translucency)

4) Американизм: Newer Technology

5) Спорт: Nice Try, No Time, Nordic Tournament

6) Военный термин: Nice Target, No Trouble, Non Tracking, Not Tough, naval torpedo, night tracer, normal tour

7) Техника: No Thread, network terminator, neutron transmitter, night, normalized tempered

8) Шутливое выражение: Nervous Technicians, Netware Terminator, Now Tinkering

9) Математика: No Tail, Number of Trials

10) Юридический термин: Not Trustworthy

11) Бухгалтерия: Non Transactions

12) Биржевой термин: No Trade

13) Грубое выражение: Nice Tits, No Touching

14) Музыка: No Trebles

15) Политика: Netherlands Antilles

16) Телекоммуникации: Network Termination (ISDN), Node Type (SNA), New Technology (Windows)

17) Сокращение: National Trust, Neutral Zone, New Taiwanese, New Testament, Newfoundland Time, Northern Territory, navy type, nitron, no trumps, non tight, not tested, Nome Time (GMT - 1100), Northwest Territories

18) Университет: Networking Theory, No Transcript

19) Физика: нейтринный телескоп, neutrino telescope

20) Физиология: Naso- Tracheal, Natural Tendency, Nerve Treatment, Neurologically Typical, No Toes, Non- Tender, Not Tubercular

21) Школьное выражение: Name Taker

22) Вычислительная техника: Nome Time-11:00, network termination unit, no tabs, no transmission, Nome Time (-1100, TZ), (Windows) New Technology (MS, OS, Windows)

23) Нефть: new tons, thermal neutron log, нормальная температура (normal temperature)

24) Стоматология: natural tooth

25) Биохимия: Nortriptyline

26) Связь: Network Terminal/Termination

27) Картография: National Trust (area)

28) Транспорт: No Takeoff, No Turbo

29) Пищевая промышленность: Non Toxic, Not Tender

30) Фирменный знак: National, Nautilus Technology, Northern Telecom

31) Холодильная техника: среднетемпературный диапазон, NT range, normal temperature range

32) СМИ: Nursing Times magazine

33) Деловая лексика: New Technologies, Non Transferable, Not Today

34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: non-watertight

35) Сетевые технологии: network terminal, новая технология, сетевая оконечная станция, сетевой терминал

36) Полимеры: nontight, normal temperature

37) Контроль качества: non tested

38) Иммунофармакология: neutralization test

39) Безопасность: Not Trusted, Nsa Translation

40) Интернет: no text (означает, что в записи не содержится текста кроме заголовка)

41) Расширение файла: Nome Time (-11:00), New Technology (Microsoft), Startup files (Windows NT)

42) США: North Tacoma

43) Должность: Newer Transfer

44) Чат: Next Time, Next Topic, No Text, No Thoughts, Not There

45) Правительство: North Texas

46) NYSE. Nortel Networks Corporation

47) Программное обеспечение: New Technology

48) СМС: Next To

49) Базы данных: Newer Than....

1) Общая лексика: толщина воротникового пространства, ширина шейной прозрачности

2) Компьютерная техника: Needs A Terabyte, Network Termination, Null Type

3) Медицина: ширина шейной прозрачности ( nuchal translucency)

4) Американизм: Newer Technology

5) Спорт: Nice Try, No Time, Nordic Tournament

6) Военный термин: Nice Target, No Trouble, Non Tracking, Not Tough, naval torpedo, night tracer, normal tour

7) Техника: No Thread, network terminator, neutron transmitter, night, normalized tempered

8) Шутливое выражение: Nervous Technicians, Netware Terminator, Now Tinkering

9) Математика: No Tail, Number of Trials

10) Юридический термин: Not Trustworthy

11) Бухгалтерия: Non Transactions

12) Биржевой термин: No Trade

13) Грубое выражение: Nice Tits, No Touching

14) Музыка: No Trebles

15) Политика: Netherlands Antilles

16) Телекоммуникации: Network Termination (ISDN), Node Type (SNA), New Technology (Windows)

17) Сокращение: National Trust, Neutral Zone, New Taiwanese, New Testament, Newfoundland Time, Northern Territory, navy type, nitron, no trumps, non tight, not tested, Nome Time (GMT - 1100), Northwest Territories

18) Университет: Networking Theory, No Transcript

19) Физика: нейтринный телескоп, neutrino telescope

20) Физиология: Naso- Tracheal, Natural Tendency, Nerve Treatment, Neurologically Typical, No Toes, Non- Tender, Not Tubercular

21) Школьное выражение: Name Taker

22) Вычислительная техника: Nome Time-11:00, network termination unit, no tabs, no transmission, Nome Time (-1100, TZ), (Windows) New Technology (MS, OS, Windows)

23) Нефть: new tons, thermal neutron log, нормальная температура (normal temperature)

24) Стоматология: natural tooth

25) Биохимия: Nortriptyline

26) Связь: Network Terminal/Termination

27) Картография: National Trust (area)

28) Транспорт: No Takeoff, No Turbo

29) Пищевая промышленность: Non Toxic, Not Tender

30) Фирменный знак: National, Nautilus Technology, Northern Telecom

31) Холодильная техника: среднетемпературный диапазон, NT range, normal temperature range

32) СМИ: Nursing Times magazine

33) Деловая лексика: New Technologies, Non Transferable, Not Today

34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: non-watertight

35) Сетевые технологии: network terminal, новая технология, сетевая оконечная станция, сетевой терминал

36) Полимеры: nontight, normal temperature

37) Контроль качества: non tested

38) Иммунофармакология: neutralization test

39) Безопасность: Not Trusted, Nsa Translation

40) Интернет: no text (означает, что в записи не содержится текста кроме заголовка)

41) Расширение файла: Nome Time (-11:00), New Technology (Microsoft), Startup files (Windows NT)

42) США: North Tacoma

43) Должность: Newer Transfer

44) Чат: Next Time, Next Topic, No Text, No Thoughts, Not There

45) Правительство: North Texas

46) NYSE. Nortel Networks Corporation

47) Программное обеспечение: New Technology

48) СМС: Next To

49) Базы данных: Newer Than....

1) Общая лексика: вертикальный транспорт

2) Компьютерная техника: Visual Terminal

3) Медицина: ventricular tachycardia, желудочковая тахикардия (ventricular tachycardia)

4) Военный термин: Naval Torpedo Bombing Squadron, W W I I, Virtual Tank, variable time, velocity-time, vertical test, visual telegraphy, visual training, volunteer training, самолёт-торпедоносец, учебная эскадрилья (ВМС), эскадрилья ночных бомбардировщиков-торпедоносцев, Variable Time (Fuse), Variable Time (anti-aircraft fuse)

5) Техника: variable threshold, variable time fuse, variable time fuze countermeasures, variable transformer, velocity track, vertical tabulation character, visual test, visual tuning, (сокр. от) variable torque = переменный (вращающий, крутящий) момент, переменный момент вращения

6) Математика: Vanishing Terms

7) Метеорология: Variable Temperature

8) Юридический термин: Vermont Acts

9) Бухгалтерия: Value Transfer

10) Биржевой термин: Value Trust

11) Политика: Vatican City (Holy See)

12) Телевидение: видеоплёнка (video tape)

13) Телекоммуникации: Virtual Tributary, Virtual Tributary signal, Virtual Terminal (ISO)

14) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (India), Vectored Thrust, Vermont (US state), Virtual Time, Vosper Thornycroft, vapor-tight, voice tube, variable time (fuse), Vermont Transit (автобусная компания)

15) Текстиль: Veil Tail

16) Университет: Viceroy Territory, Virginia Tech

17) Физика: Valid Time

18) Физиология: Tidal Volume, Very Terminal

19) Электроника: Vacuum Transducer, Variable Transient, Variational Technology, Vee Tunnel, Vertical Twin, Video Tracker, Vision Technology, Voltage Transient

20) Вычислительная техника: Virtual Terminal, vacuum tube, vertical tab, vertical tabulation, Virtual Terminal (DEC)

21) Кардиология: venous thrombosis

22) Транспорт: Variable Timing, Variable Torque, Variable Turbo, Vertical Takeoff, Viscous Traction

23) Пищевая промышленность: Very Tough

24) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: visual testing

25) Образование: Vocational Training

26) Сетевые технологии: video terminal, вертикальная табуляция, видеотерминал, виртуальный терминал

27) Программирование: Variable Type

28) Океанография: Vertical Tank

29) Безопасность: Virus Tools

30) Электричество: трансформатор напряжения (voltage transformer)

31) Электротехника: voltage transformer

32) НАСА: Variable Trajectory, Vertical Time

33) Программное обеспечение: Verifier's Toolkit, Verifiers Toolkit, Version Tracker, Video Toolbox, Virtual Tape

34) Базы данных: Value Type, Vertical Totals, Virtual Table

1) Общая лексика: вертикальный транспорт

2) Компьютерная техника: Visual Terminal

3) Медицина: ventricular tachycardia, желудочковая тахикардия (ventricular tachycardia)

4) Военный термин: Naval Torpedo Bombing Squadron, W W I I, Virtual Tank, variable time, velocity-time, vertical test, visual telegraphy, visual training, volunteer training, самолёт-торпедоносец, учебная эскадрилья (ВМС), эскадрилья ночных бомбардировщиков-торпедоносцев, Variable Time (Fuse), Variable Time (anti-aircraft fuse)

5) Техника: variable threshold, variable time fuse, variable time fuze countermeasures, variable transformer, velocity track, vertical tabulation character, visual test, visual tuning, (сокр. от) variable torque = переменный (вращающий, крутящий) момент, переменный момент вращения

6) Математика: Vanishing Terms

7) Метеорология: Variable Temperature

8) Юридический термин: Vermont Acts

9) Бухгалтерия: Value Transfer

10) Биржевой термин: Value Trust

11) Политика: Vatican City (Holy See)

12) Телевидение: видеоплёнка (video tape)

13) Телекоммуникации: Virtual Tributary, Virtual Tributary signal, Virtual Terminal (ISO)

14) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (India), Vectored Thrust, Vermont (US state), Virtual Time, Vosper Thornycroft, vapor-tight, voice tube, variable time (fuse), Vermont Transit (автобусная компания)

15) Текстиль: Veil Tail

16) Университет: Viceroy Territory, Virginia Tech

17) Физика: Valid Time

18) Физиология: Tidal Volume, Very Terminal

19) Электроника: Vacuum Transducer, Variable Transient, Variational Technology, Vee Tunnel, Vertical Twin, Video Tracker, Vision Technology, Voltage Transient

20) Вычислительная техника: Virtual Terminal, vacuum tube, vertical tab, vertical tabulation, Virtual Terminal (DEC)

21) Кардиология: venous thrombosis

22) Транспорт: Variable Timing, Variable Torque, Variable Turbo, Vertical Takeoff, Viscous Traction

23) Пищевая промышленность: Very Tough

24) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: visual testing

25) Образование: Vocational Training

26) Сетевые технологии: video terminal, вертикальная табуляция, видеотерминал, виртуальный терминал

27) Программирование: Variable Type

28) Океанография: Vertical Tank

29) Безопасность: Virus Tools

30) Электричество: трансформатор напряжения (voltage transformer)

31) Электротехника: voltage transformer

32) НАСА: Variable Trajectory, Vertical Time

33) Программное обеспечение: Verifier's Toolkit, Verifiers Toolkit, Version Tracker, Video Toolbox, Virtual Tape

34) Базы данных: Value Type, Vertical Totals, Virtual Table

1) Общая лексика: толщина воротникового пространства, ширина шейной прозрачности

2) Компьютерная техника: Needs A Terabyte, Network Termination, Null Type

3) Медицина: ширина шейной прозрачности ( nuchal translucency)

4) Американизм: Newer Technology

5) Спорт: Nice Try, No Time, Nordic Tournament

6) Военный термин: Nice Target, No Trouble, Non Tracking, Not Tough, naval torpedo, night tracer, normal tour

7) Техника: No Thread, network terminator, neutron transmitter, night, normalized tempered

8) Шутливое выражение: Nervous Technicians, Netware Terminator, Now Tinkering

9) Математика: No Tail, Number of Trials

10) Юридический термин: Not Trustworthy

11) Бухгалтерия: Non Transactions

12) Биржевой термин: No Trade

13) Грубое выражение: Nice Tits, No Touching

14) Музыка: No Trebles

15) Политика: Netherlands Antilles

16) Телекоммуникации: Network Termination (ISDN), Node Type (SNA), New Technology (Windows)

17) Сокращение: National Trust, Neutral Zone, New Taiwanese, New Testament, Newfoundland Time, Northern Territory, navy type, nitron, no trumps, non tight, not tested, Nome Time (GMT - 1100), Northwest Territories

18) Университет: Networking Theory, No Transcript

19) Физика: нейтринный телескоп, neutrino telescope

20) Физиология: Naso- Tracheal, Natural Tendency, Nerve Treatment, Neurologically Typical, No Toes, Non- Tender, Not Tubercular

21) Школьное выражение: Name Taker

22) Вычислительная техника: Nome Time-11:00, network termination unit, no tabs, no transmission, Nome Time (-1100, TZ), (Windows) New Technology (MS, OS, Windows)

23) Нефть: new tons, thermal neutron log, нормальная температура (normal temperature)

24) Стоматология: natural tooth

25) Биохимия: Nortriptyline

26) Связь: Network Terminal/Termination

27) Картография: National Trust (area)

28) Транспорт: No Takeoff, No Turbo

29) Пищевая промышленность: Non Toxic, Not Tender

30) Фирменный знак: National, Nautilus Technology, Northern Telecom

31) Холодильная техника: среднетемпературный диапазон, NT range, normal temperature range

32) СМИ: Nursing Times magazine

33) Деловая лексика: New Technologies, Non Transferable, Not Today

34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: non-watertight

35) Сетевые технологии: network terminal, новая технология, сетевая оконечная станция, сетевой терминал

36) Полимеры: nontight, normal temperature

37) Контроль качества: non tested

38) Иммунофармакология: neutralization test

39) Безопасность: Not Trusted, Nsa Translation

40) Интернет: no text (означает, что в записи не содержится текста кроме заголовка)

41) Расширение файла: Nome Time (-11:00), New Technology (Microsoft), Startup files (Windows NT)

42) США: North Tacoma

43) Должность: Newer Transfer

44) Чат: Next Time, Next Topic, No Text, No Thoughts, Not There

45) Правительство: North Texas

46) NYSE. Nortel Networks Corporation

47) Программное обеспечение: New Technology

48) СМС: Next To

49) Базы данных: Newer Than....

1) Общая лексика: толщина воротникового пространства, ширина шейной прозрачности

2) Компьютерная техника: Needs A Terabyte, Network Termination, Null Type

3) Медицина: ширина шейной прозрачности ( nuchal translucency)

4) Американизм: Newer Technology

5) Спорт: Nice Try, No Time, Nordic Tournament

6) Военный термин: Nice Target, No Trouble, Non Tracking, Not Tough, naval torpedo, night tracer, normal tour

7) Техника: No Thread, network terminator, neutron transmitter, night, normalized tempered

8) Шутливое выражение: Nervous Technicians, Netware Terminator, Now Tinkering

9) Математика: No Tail, Number of Trials

10) Юридический термин: Not Trustworthy

11) Бухгалтерия: Non Transactions

12) Биржевой термин: No Trade

13) Грубое выражение: Nice Tits, No Touching

14) Музыка: No Trebles

15) Политика: Netherlands Antilles

16) Телекоммуникации: Network Termination (ISDN), Node Type (SNA), New Technology (Windows)

17) Сокращение: National Trust, Neutral Zone, New Taiwanese, New Testament, Newfoundland Time, Northern Territory, navy type, nitron, no trumps, non tight, not tested, Nome Time (GMT - 1100), Northwest Territories

18) Университет: Networking Theory, No Transcript

19) Физика: нейтринный телескоп, neutrino telescope

20) Физиология: Naso- Tracheal, Natural Tendency, Nerve Treatment, Neurologically Typical, No Toes, Non- Tender, Not Tubercular

21) Школьное выражение: Name Taker

22) Вычислительная техника: Nome Time-11:00, network termination unit, no tabs, no transmission, Nome Time (-1100, TZ), (Windows) New Technology (MS, OS, Windows)

23) Нефть: new tons, thermal neutron log, нормальная температура (normal temperature)

24) Стоматология: natural tooth

25) Биохимия: Nortriptyline

26) Связь: Network Terminal/Termination

27) Картография: National Trust (area)

28) Транспорт: No Takeoff, No Turbo

29) Пищевая промышленность: Non Toxic, Not Tender

30) Фирменный знак: National, Nautilus Technology, Northern Telecom

31) Холодильная техника: среднетемпературный диапазон, NT range, normal temperature range

32) СМИ: Nursing Times magazine

33) Деловая лексика: New Technologies, Non Transferable, Not Today

34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: non-watertight

35) Сетевые технологии: network terminal, новая технология, сетевая оконечная станция, сетевой терминал

36) Полимеры: nontight, normal temperature

37) Контроль качества: non tested

38) Иммунофармакология: neutralization test

39) Безопасность: Not Trusted, Nsa Translation

40) Интернет: no text (означает, что в записи не содержится текста кроме заголовка)

41) Расширение файла: Nome Time (-11:00), New Technology (Microsoft), Startup files (Windows NT)

42) США: North Tacoma

43) Должность: Newer Transfer

44) Чат: Next Time, Next Topic, No Text, No Thoughts, Not There

45) Правительство: North Texas

46) NYSE. Nortel Networks Corporation

47) Программное обеспечение: New Technology

48) СМС: Next To

49) Базы данных: Newer Than....

1) Общая лексика: вертикальный транспорт

2) Компьютерная техника: Visual Terminal

3) Медицина: ventricular tachycardia, желудочковая тахикардия (ventricular tachycardia)

4) Военный термин: Naval Torpedo Bombing Squadron, W W I I, Virtual Tank, variable time, velocity-time, vertical test, visual telegraphy, visual training, volunteer training, самолёт-торпедоносец, учебная эскадрилья (ВМС), эскадрилья ночных бомбардировщиков-торпедоносцев, Variable Time (Fuse), Variable Time (anti-aircraft fuse)

5) Техника: variable threshold, variable time fuse, variable time fuze countermeasures, variable transformer, velocity track, vertical tabulation character, visual test, visual tuning, (сокр. от) variable torque = переменный (вращающий, крутящий) момент, переменный момент вращения

6) Математика: Vanishing Terms

7) Метеорология: Variable Temperature

8) Юридический термин: Vermont Acts

9) Бухгалтерия: Value Transfer

10) Биржевой термин: Value Trust

11) Политика: Vatican City (Holy See)

12) Телевидение: видеоплёнка (video tape)

13) Телекоммуникации: Virtual Tributary, Virtual Tributary signal, Virtual Terminal (ISO)

14) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (India), Vectored Thrust, Vermont (US state), Virtual Time, Vosper Thornycroft, vapor-tight, voice tube, variable time (fuse), Vermont Transit (автобусная компания)

15) Текстиль: Veil Tail

16) Университет: Viceroy Territory, Virginia Tech

17) Физика: Valid Time

18) Физиология: Tidal Volume, Very Terminal

19) Электроника: Vacuum Transducer, Variable Transient, Variational Technology, Vee Tunnel, Vertical Twin, Video Tracker, Vision Technology, Voltage Transient

20) Вычислительная техника: Virtual Terminal, vacuum tube, vertical tab, vertical tabulation, Virtual Terminal (DEC)

21) Кардиология: venous thrombosis

22) Транспорт: Variable Timing, Variable Torque, Variable Turbo, Vertical Takeoff, Viscous Traction

23) Пищевая промышленность: Very Tough

24) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: visual testing

25) Образование: Vocational Training

26) Сетевые технологии: video terminal, вертикальная табуляция, видеотерминал, виртуальный терминал

27) Программирование: Variable Type

28) Океанография: Vertical Tank

29) Безопасность: Virus Tools

30) Электричество: трансформатор напряжения (voltage transformer)

31) Электротехника: voltage transformer

32) НАСА: Variable Trajectory, Vertical Time

33) Программное обеспечение: Verifier's Toolkit, Verifiers Toolkit, Version Tracker, Video Toolbox, Virtual Tape

34) Базы данных: Value Type, Vertical Totals, Virtual Table

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives, Weapons and armour

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The Brennan family, including Louis, emigrated to Australia in 1861. He was an inventive genius from childhood, and while at Melbourne invented his torpedo. Within it were two drums, each with several miles of steel wire coiled upon it and mounted on one of two concentric propeller shafts. The propellers revolved in opposite directions. Wires were led out of the torpedo to winding drums on land, driven by high-speed steam engines: the faster the drums on shore were driven, the quicker the wires were withdrawn from the drums within the torpedo and the quicker the propellers turned. A steering device was operated by altering the speeds of the wires relative to one another. As finally developed, Brennan torpedoes were accurate over a range of 1 1/2 miles (2.4 km), in contrast to contemporary self-propelled torpedoes, which were unreliable at ranges over 400 yards (366 in).

Brennan moved to England in 1880 and sold the rights to his torpedo to the British Government for a total of £110,000, probably the highest payment ever made by it to an individual inventor. Brennan torpedoes became part of the defences of many vital naval ports, but never saw active service: improvement of other means of defence meant they were withdrawn in 1906. By then Brennan was deeply involved in the development of his monorail. The need for a simple and cheap form of railway had been apparent to him when in Australia and he considered it could be met by a ground-level monorail upon which vehicles would be balanced by gyroscopes. After overcoming many manufacturing difficulties, he demonstrated first a one-eighth scale version and then a full-size, electrically driven vehicle, which ran on its single rail throughout the summer of 1910 in London, carrying up to fifty passengers at a time. Development had been supported financially by, successively, the War Office, the India Office and the Government of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which had no rail access; despite all this, however, no further financial support, government or commercial, was forthcoming.

Brennan made many other inventions, worked on the early development of helicopters and in 1929 built a gyroscopically balanced, two-wheeled motor car which, however, never went into production.

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See also: Behr, Fritz Bernhard; Lartigue, Charles François Marie-Thérèse; Palmer, Henry Robinson( monorails); Whitehead, Robert( torpedoes).

— administrative squadron

— aerial port squadron

— aerial reconnaissance squadron

— aerial refueler/transport squadron

— aerial refueling squadron

— aerial resupply squadron

— aeromedical airlift squadron

— aeromedical evacuation squadron

— aerospace defense squadron

— aerospace search and recovery squadron

— aerospace support squadron

— aggressor training squadron

— air antisubmarine squadron

— air cargo resupply squadron

— air cavalry squadron

— air communications service squadron

— air control squadron

— air defense control and warning squadron

— air defense missile squadron

— air demonstration squadron

— air dispatch squadron

— air early warning squadron

— air installations squadron

— air intelligence service squadron

— air materiel squadron

— air observation post squadron

— air police squadron

— air refueling squadron

— air rescue and recovery squadron

— air rescue squadron

— air squadron

— air supply squadron

— air support squadron

— air test and evaluation squadron

— air training squadron

— air transport squadron

— air-assault division cavalry squadron

— air-base service squadron

— airborne early warning squadron

— aircraft ferry squadron

— aircraft maintenance engineering squadron

— airlift squadron

— airmobile cavalry squadron

— air-weather squadron

— amphibious squadron

— anti-satellite squadron

— armament and electronics maintenance squadron

— armored cavalry squadron

— armoured engineer squadron

— armoured reconnaissance squadron

— armoured squadron

— Army Air Corps squadron

— artillery squadron

— ashore squadron

— assault transport/tanker squadron

— assault/fire support helicopter squadron

— ASW squadron

— attack and close support squadron

— attack helicopter squadron

— attack reconnaissance squadron

— attack squadron

— augmentation squadron

— avionics maintenance squadron

— AWACS squadron

— base service squadron

— BM squadron

— bombardment squadron

— bomber squadron

— cadet squadron

— carrier squadron

— cartographic and geodetic squadron

— CAS squadron

— casualty staging squadron

— cavalry squadron

— civil engineering squadron

— close reconnaissance squadron

— close support squadron

— CM submarine squadron

— combat crew training squadron

— combat training squadron

— command and support squadron

— commando assault squadron

— commando brigade aviation squadron

— communications maintenance squadron

— communications security squadron

— communications squadron

— composite reconnaissance squadron

— control and warning squadron

— conversion training squadron

— day fighter squadron

— day reconnaissance squadron

— defense system evaluation squadron

— destroyer squadron

— double-basing squadron

— drone generation squadron

— early warning radar squadron

— ECM squadron

— embarked squadron

— engineer amphibious squadron

— engineer park squadron

— engineers special squadron

— escort squadron

— evaluation squadron

— EW squadron

— extreme reserve motor boat squadron

— field aviation depot squadron

— field engineering equipment squadron

— field maintenance squadron

— field squadron airfields

— field support squadron

— fighter escort squadron

— fighter ground attack squadron

— fighter reconnaissance squadron

— fire-support helicopter squadron

— fishing and oil and gas rigs protection squadron

— flail squadron

— flight service squadron

— flight training squadron

— general purpose squadron

— GM squadron

— ground attack squadron

— ground-support fighter squadron

— guidance and communications squadron

— heavy assault helicopter squadron

— heavy lift squadron

— heavy transport squadron

— helicopter mine countermeasures squadron

— HQ and maintenance squadron

— HQ and support squadron

— HQ squadron

— hunter-attack submarine squadron

— ICBM squadron

— inflight refueling squadron

— in-place squadron

— interceptor squadron

— interceptor-fighter/ground attack squadron

— jet attack squadron

— jet-photo/reconnaissance squadron

— landing-craft squadron

— light assault helicopter squadron

— light aviation squadron

— light helicopter squadron

— light multipurpose helicopter squadron

— logistics squadron

— long-range maritime patrol squadron

— long-range radar warning squadron

— low-level air defence squadron

— MAC squadron

— MAC support squadron

— maintenance squadron

— mapping squadron

— Marine air base squadron

— Marine air control squadron

— Marine air support squadron

— Marine assault squadron

— Marine aviation squadron

— Marine expeditionary battalion CAS squadron

— maritime patrol squadron

— maritime reconnaissance squadron

— maritime squadron

— medical lift squadron

— medical transport squadron

— medium assault helicopter squadron

— medium helicopter squadron

— medium reconnaissance squadron

— medium transport squadron

— military airlift support squadron

— military evacuation squadron

— mine sweeper squadron

— mine-sweeping helicopter squadron

— missile maintenance squadron

— missile squadron

— missile submarine squadron

— missile warning squadron

— mobile missile squadron

— munitions support squadron

— naval amphibious squadron

— naval aviation squadron

— naval reserve antisubmarine patrol squadron

— naval river assault squadron

— night reconnaissance squadron

— nuclear and diesel-powered submarine squadron

— observation squadron

— observation/spotting squadron

— operational squadron

— patrol bomber squadron

— patrol squadron

— photographic reconnaissance squadron

— picket aircraft squadron

— radar calibration squadron

— radar evaluation squadron

— radar warning squadron

— radio-navigation systems evaluation and calibration squadron

— radio-relay squadron

— railway squadron

— ready replacement squadron

— reconnaissance photomapping squadron

— reconnaissance squadron

— refueler/transport squadron

— reinforced cavalry squadron

— replacement training squadron

— Royal Marines amphibious assault squadron

— scouting squadron

— search and rescue squadron

— service ship squadron

— service squadron

— shore-based training squadron

— SIGINT squadron

— signal squadron

— silo-based missile squadron

— space communications squadron

— space control squadron

— space surveillance squadron

— Special Air Service squadron

— Special Boat squadron

— special electronic squadron

— Special Forces support boat squadron

— special operations squadron

— special weapons squadron

— special-purpose helicopter squadron

— strategic airlift squadron

— strategic BM squadron

— strategic bomber squadron

— strategic missile squadron

— strategic missile support squadron

— strategic support squadron

— strategic transport squadron

— strike squadron

— submarine hunter-killer squadron

— submarine squadron

— support squadron

— tactical air control squadron

— tactical air support squadron

— tactical airlift squadron

— tactical bomber squadron

— tactical control squadron

— tactical drone squadron

— tactical electronics squadron

— tactical EW squadron

— tactical fighter squadron

— tactical reconnaissance squadron

— tactical support squadron

— tactical transport squadron

— tank squadron

— tank transporter squadron

— tanker squadron

— target-towing squadron

— test and evaluation squadron

— torpedo squadron

— training squadron

— transport and rescue squadron

— transport helicopter squadron

— transport squadron

— transport/search and rescue squadron

— troop-carrier squadron

— utility helicopter squadron

— utility squadron

— wartime augmentation squadron

— weather reconnaissance squadron

— winged missile squadron

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On leaving school in 1894, MacGregor was apprenticed to a famous local shipyard, the Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company of Jarrow-on-Tyne. After four years he was entered for the annual examination of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, coming out top and being nominated Queen's Prizeman. Shortly thereafter he moved around shipyards to gain experience, working in Glasgow, Hull, Newcastle and then Dunkirk. His mastery of French enabled him to obtain in 1906 the senior position of Chief Draughtsman at an Antwerp shipyard, where he remained until 1914. On his return to Britain, he took charge of the small yard of Dibbles in Southampton and commenced a period of great personal development and productivity. His fertile mind enabled him to register no fewer than ten patents in the years 1919 to 1923.

In 1924 he started out on his own as a naval architect, specializing in the coal trade of the North Sea. At that time, colliers had wooden hatch covers, which despite every caution could be smashed by heavy seas, and which in time of war added little to hull integrity after a torpedo strike. The International Loadline Committee of 1932 noted that 13 per cent of ship losses were through hatch failures. In 1927, designs for selftrimming colliers were developed, as well as designs for steel hatch covers. In 1928 the first patents were under way and the business was known for some years as MacGregor and King. During this period, steel hatch covers were fitted to 105 ships.

In 1937 MacGregor invited his brother Joseph (c. 1883–1967) to join him. Joseph had wide experience in ship repairs and had worked for many years as General Manager of the Prince of Wales Dry Docks in Swansea, a port noted for its coal exports. By 1939 they were operating from Whitley Bay with the name that was to become world famous: MacGregor and Company (Naval Architects) Ltd. The new company worked in association with the shipyards of Austin's of Sunderland and Burntisland of Fife, which were then developing the "flatiron" colliers for the up-river London coal trade. The MacGregor business gained a great boost when the massive coastal fleet of William Cory \& Son was fitted with steel hatches.

In 1945 the brothers appointed Henri Kummerman (b. 1908, Vienna; d. 1984, Geneva) as their sales agent in Europe. Over the years, Kummerman effected greater control on the MacGregor business and, through his astute business dealings and his well-organized sales drives worldwide, welded together an international company in hatch covers, cargo handling and associated work. Before his death, Robert MacGregor was to see mastery of the design of single-pull steel hatch covers and to witness the acceptance of MacGregor hatch covers worldwide. Most important of all, he had contributed to great increases in the safety and the quality of life at sea.

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— advanced technology bomber

— antipodal bomber

— atomic bomber

— attack bomber

— attack fighter bomber

— boost glide bomber

— carrier bomber

— carrier-based attack bomber

— dash bomber

— day bomber

— deep-strike bomber

— deterrent nuclear bomber

— dive bomber

— extraterrestrial bomber

— fighter bomber

— fire bomber

— first-cycle bomber

— fleet torpedo bomber

— glider bomber

— global bomber

— heavy bomber

— high-altitude bomber

— high-level bomber

— horizontal bomber

— intercontinental bomber

— jet bomber

— loft bomber

— long-range bomber

— low-altitude bomber

— low-altitude penetration strategic bomber

— low-altitude penetrator strategic bomber

— low-level bomber

— maritime bomber

— master bomber

— medium bomber

— missile-carrier bomber

— naval bomber

— night bomber

— nonnuclear bomber

— nuclear bomber

— orbital bomber

— orbital jump-down bomber

— patrol bomber

— penetration bomber

— peripherally-oriented bomber

— precision bomber

— reconnaissance bomber

— rifle bomber

— rocket orbital bomber

— scout bomber

— self-escorting fighter bomber

— semiorbital bomber

— short-range bomber

— standoff bomber

— Stealth bomber

— strategic bomber

— strategic high-altitude orbital bomber

— strategic low-altitude orbital bomber

— strike bomber

— swing-wing bomber

— tactical close support bomber

— tanker-configured bomber

— terrorist bomber

— torpedo bomber

— V bombers

— water bomber

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Herreshoff, or, as he was known, Captain Nat, was seventh in a family of nine, four of whom became blind in childhood. Association with such problems may have sharpened his appreciation of shape and form; indeed, he made a lengthy European small-boat trip with a blind brother. While working on yacht designs, he used three-dimensional models in conjunction with the sheer draught on the drawing-board. With many of the family being boatbuilders, he started designing at the age of 16 and then decided to make this his career. As naval architecture was not then a graduating subject, he studied mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still studying, c.1867, he broke new ground by preparing direct reading time handicapping tables for yachts up to 110 ft (33.5 m) long. After working with the Corliss Company, he set up the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, in partnership with J.B.Herreshoff, as shipbuilders and engineers. Over the years their output included steam machinery, fishing vessels, pleasure craft and racing yachts. They built the first torpedo boat for the US Navy and another for the Royal Navy, the only such acquisition in the late nineteenth century. Herreshoff designed six of the world's greatest yachts, of the America's Cup, between 1890 and 1920. His accomplishments included new types of lightweight wood fasteners, new systems of framing, hollow spars and better methods of cutting sails. He continued to work full-time until 1935 and his work was internationally acclaimed. He maintained cordial relations with his British rivals Fife, Nicholson and G.L. Watson, and enjoyed friendship with his compatriot Edward Burgess. Few will ever match Herreshoff as an all-round engineer and designer.

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At the conclusion of his schooling in the South of England, Yarrow became an indentured apprentice to the Thames engine-builder Ravenhill. During this five-year period various incidents and meetings sharpened his interest in scientific matters and he showed the skills that in later years were to be so beneficial to shipbuilding. For two years he acted as London representative for Ravenhill before joining up with a Mr Hedley to form a shipyard on the Isle of Dogs. The company lasted from 1868 until 1875 and in that period produced 350 small launches and other craft. This massive output enabled Yarrow to gain confidence in many aspects of ship design. Within two years of setting out on his own he built his first ship for the Royal Navy: a torpedo boat, then at the cutting edge of technology.

In the early 1890s the company was building watertube boilers and producing destroyers with speeds in excess of 27 knots (50 km/h); it built the Russian destroyer Sokol, did pioneering work with aluminium and with high-tensile steels and worked on shipboard equipment to nullify vibrational effects. With the closure of most of the Thames shipyards and the run-down in skilled labour, Yarrow decided that the shipyard must move to some other part of the United Kingdom. After careful deliberation a green field site to the west of Glasgow was chosen, and in 1908 their first Clyde-built destroyer was launched. The company expanded, more building berths were arranged, boiler construction was developed and over the years they became recognized as specialists in smaller highspeed craft and in "knock down" ships for other parts of the world.

Yarrow retired in 1913, but at the commencement of the First World War he returned to help the yard produce, in four years, twenty-nine destroyers with speeds of up to 40 knots (74 km/h). At the end of hostilities he gave of his time and money to many charities, including those for ex-servicemen. He left a remarkable industrial organization which remains to this day the most prolific builder of surface craft for the Royal Navy.

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