Saturday, December 22, 2007

Boat Donations at BoatAngel.com

Every one in this world have to enjoy the cool and luxurious life . So , if we are rich we will try to make others rich. At least we have to make them to at least enjoy the least basic enjoyments . So how to help the poor people especially poor children. There are many ways to help the poor ones .One among them is by spending our properties for the welfare of the poor children.
So ,how to help them ? if you are having a cool boat and if you want to sell it and throw it in a guddown or a carrage , do not do it .Please donate that boat (you can donate old one or a new one) to boat angel .com This is a cool website and if you donate the boat to this website base organisation ,it will then in reply send the money for the boat to the charity which is helping the poor people especially poor children. So if you are in an idea of selling a boat please donate it to the boatangel .com. All the best. Boat Donations can be made online and Charity Boat Donations will help the poor people. You also can get some cool Free DVDs from them with free shipping .

Friday, December 21, 2007

Online Logo Maker

Hi every one. how are you all? hope you all will be fine. i am going to share with you a cool stuff here. That is online logo maker called as logoyes. com.
Hi i think every one is searching for a cool stuff and i am here to share with you this cool and attractive stuff and i am sure that you will like this one a lot. This is a cool stuff related to the logo designing. This website called as logoyes.com and this website is dealing with some cool and excellent designs online .If you are interested ,then visit this website and get more benefits. All the best. Logo Design is loved by any one and if you want a cool logo design for your website or any of your community page ,then try this website as it will provide you some cool and funny logos online. So wish you all the best for getting or designing a cool logo. Custom Logo Design is also can be done with the help of this website and if you are ready for sure ,you can get benefited with this website .So wish you all the best .Enjoy the life with these cool logos. Free Logo and Business Card Creator is available here in this website and you can download it for free

Donate Boat

Hi every one. How are you all? Hope you all will be fine. I am here to share with you some thing cool and funny. I know you are eagerly waiting for some cool stuff from me and now i came with a cool post called boatangel.org. I am going to share with you this cool post about the boatangel. org.
Do you have any old boats? Or don't you use any boats with you ? Then i will suggest you a cool idea . Do you want to help poor children? If yes ,then just try this website .Donate Boat . If you sell your boats (may be an old one or may be a new one as your wish) the money will be sent to a charity and the children in that charity will be get benefited. They will provide some Children's Animation DVDS . so you have to take the oath of Donate my Boat So ,if you really want to help those children ,then please do this for their welfare . I hope you will know the benefits that the children wil get by your help. So do not hesitate .Just use this opportunity and help others . They will wish you forever. All the best .So please use this opportunity to help others with the boatangel. All the best for you all. Make them enjoy the life

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Medical Assistant Training

Hi friends how are you all ? hope you all will be fine . I am here to share with you some thing cool and always interesting. So ,i am here to share you about the cool medical assistant schools . This schools are a cool one and i want to share you some thing about them here.
This website provides some cool and finite details on the medical assistant training schools for all the people and this is full of cool stuff.
If you are interested in doing any thing related to medical training ,then you can try this website at least for once. This schools around US and this provide some cool training at various campuses like university of phoenix and stanford Brown etc. So if you are interested in doing some cool medical training program online ,then try this website and this schools as they will help you a lot. All the very best. Enjoy some cool training with these schools.
These medical assistant schools will provide you some cool medical assistant training programs and also medical assistant programs and hence this is a cool stuff .Utilize this opportunity please as you will be benefited more with this schools. All the very best

DATING -MODERNMAN.COM

Dating ..have you seen this before. NO? ok i will tell you some cool tips before you going for it. Hi everyone especially guys ,this post is only for you. I am going to share with you some thing cool and interesting regarding dating .If you want tot be a cool personality or to be a modern man ,then this website will help you a lot. This website is called as modernman .com and this website is providing you some cool tips for a cool dating. This website will help you more to be a happiest man in the world .So use this opportunity
If you are interested, just continue to read ,Otherwise let it be free. yes ,this website will help you in many ways in order to survive as a modern man. Dating can be made as a cool thing by you with the help of this website. Yeah it is true of course. So ,what do you say ??Do you like it ? Nope ? Then i will have to share you something important that will make you feel happier because i want you all to use this amazing opportunity .All the very best in advance.
When you join this website as a member and if you want to go for a course with them ,then they will provide you some cool tips and seminar that will help you to how to approach women and this website will provides some cool advice like dating advice for a man and tell you how to get dates. This is amazing right ?If you join this once, they will take you some courses and at the end of they will take you to a bar or a night club and tell you how to attract a women live and exclusive ly with the help of their well trained experts. This is amazing right ? This will make you to get more knowledge about that .So ,if you are really interested in dating a women or want to be a modern man ,just visit modernman .com. All the best.
Hey why are you waiting in your home ? Just visit this website and join a cool course online and have some cool exciting fun from the modern man.com .All the very best .Utilize this cool opportunity and this will happen once in a life .SO do not miss this opportunity. Enjoy the life .All the very best again. Enjoy

TRUST SOURCE. ORG

Hi every one ,how are you all? i know you all will be fine and well . So ,shall we share something cool and interesting and also a much needed one. So , we shall start now. I am going to share with you a cool website called trust source.org and this website is providing some online loans or cash advance for you all in order to satisfy your medical needs and other personal reasons. This website provides you some cool payday loans and this payday loan will help you achieve your needs.
Actually this Trust Source.org is a cool web site which provides you a lot of health oriented products for improving all your general body health conditions. They also provides you a lot of health products that not only helps you to survive or to recover from all your health problems but also from other problems related to your cool body .This Trust source provides you an amazing and excellent way of recovering the body from any health problems without undergoing any medical diet as this will ruin your body.
So ,if you are interested in this ,then just try this once and get much benefited. This will be interesting to read and enjoy more with this . So ,if you actually want to have a cool loan online ,then read this once and get benefited. All the very best friends ,enjoy life with the help of this website. All the very best.

Cash Advance

Hi friends this is an amazing and real cool stuff to read .So don't miss it .Read this and enjoy. All the very best.
I am going to share with you a cool stuff called as cash advance 1500 as this website is an online based insurance and loan providing company which provides some cool online loans for you and it will provide loans as soon as possible. So ,if you are interested in getting some cool loans online, then this is the right place to be. So ,if you are interested , just read this post at least once.
cash advance is a cool website which provides some cool online loans for you all and this website is a cool website which provides loans at a faster rate. This is amazing right? This website provides you some cool payday loans and this will help you a lot for sure. So ,if you are in an idea of getting an immediate loan or a payday loan from somebody ,then you are in a right place ...yes This website will provide you some cool and better loans for sure .
So what are you waiting for? Just try this once and enjoy the life with these loans. All the very best once again. So ,do not just read this post once and just pass it to other people so that they can get benefited. All the very best

HOTEL RESERVATIONS



Hi friends how are you all? Hope you all Will be fine and well. So, this is a cool stuff from me for you. I am going to share with you a cool stuff about these holidays.You are in a cool mood for going for a cool holiday to any country over seas. I also went to New Zealand last week for the tour holidays. The trip was so amazing.
Actually ,we were in a dilemma of where to stay ,where to dine etc. But finally we found a cool solution. That is hotel reservations.com . This is a cool website which provides some cool service for us every time and anytime. We reserved the flight tickets right from this website and this helps us a lot. We just reserved these tickets right from the home. It is amazing right? So ,then we just move on to the next stage. When we reached the airport, we got the flight in time and reached there safely and well defined. In case of reserving a flight ticket in hotel reservations, you have to book the class and time of the flight ,They will take care of the rest.
After reaching the country, we are in a surprise that the hotel that we reserved using hotel reservations was simply superb. The hotel is very luxurious and also mind blowing. The dinner ,breakfast every thing is perfect and amazing here. Also moving to the next , we had some luxurious bed rooms and halls etc.
The next morning ,we want to roam the country and in surprise ,we are able to reserve some cool cars online with the help of the hotel reservations .com. We are thrilled with their performance. So ,our tour gone in a happy way. You have to tell them the color and brand of the car and they will send you some cool cars to your place. So if you are in an ides of going for a tour, just try hotel reservations .All the best

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Drivewire - Auto Parts and Accessories

Hi friends how are you all? Hope you all will be fine. I am here to share a cool stuff for automobile owners. If you are having a cool automobile and if you want to know the best place for getting cool accessories ,then just try this website .This website provides some cool auto parts and car parts for you. This site also provides some cool ford auto parts for you all .So ,get benefited.

Monday, December 17, 2007

MisterGammon .com

Mister gammon is what that everyone waited so far .This is a cool website that provides some backgammon games online. This website provides some online backgammon and this will help you to play backgammon online and this will entertain you a lot for sure ,So why are waiting and what for you are waiting ?. Just visit this website and enjoy more.

Gammon world

Gammon world is a exciting website that every one must see. This website provides some cool backgammon games for you people. If you are really interested in online backgammon ,then try this website and enjoy more. Also play backgammon and win some cool backgammon tournaments and win some cool money online.All the best for you all.

SLOTERIX

Hi everyone, if you are interested in playing some cool online casino, just continue to read. Other wise leave it. This website is a cool website and it provides some casino slots or play slots with the help of he slot machine and hence it will give you an option of playing in various slots online. So ,do not wait any more as this one is the best one that you have waited so far. visit the website and enjoy the casino online.

GAME BLUX

Game blux is a cool website and an amazing one which provides some cool online casinos and games for us. I know every one is fond of playing online casino and some of them won't know how to play. So, this website provides some cool casino guide and casino news. So, if you are interested ,please do not wait any more. Just visit this website and get benefited.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

GRAPHICS

The earliest graphics known to anthropologists studying prehistoric periods are cave paintings and markings on boulders, bone, ivory, and antlers, which were created during the Upper Palaeolithic period from 40,000 - 10,000 B.C. or earlier. Many of these were found to record astronomical, seasonal, and chronological details. Some of the earliest graphics and drawings known to the modern world, from almost 6,000 years ago, are that of engraved stone tablets and ceramic cylinder seals, marking the beginning of the historic periods and the keeping of records for accounting and inventory purposes. Records from Egypt predate these and papyrus was used by the Egyptians as a material on which to plan the building of pyramids; they also used slabs of limestone and wood. From 600-250 BC, the Greeks played a major role in geometry. They used graphics to represent their mathematical theories such as the Circle Theorem and the Pythagorean theorem.

Drawing

Main articles: Drawing and Technical drawing

Drawing generally involves making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a tool, or moving a tool across a surface. Common tools are graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, pastels, and markers. Digital tools which simulate the effects of these are also used. The main techniques used in drawing are line drawing, hatching, crosshatching, random hatching, scribbling, stippling, blending, and shading.

Cleft (graphic by Irina Minaeva)
Cleft (graphic by Irina Minaeva)

Drawing is generally considered distinct from painting, in which colored pigments are suspended in a liquid medium and are usually applied with a brush. Notable great drawers include Sir Michael Ash and Leonardo da Vinci.

Painting

Main article: Painting

In the Middle Ages and Post Modern Ages, paintings were very distorted; for example, people on a castle wall appeared disproportionately large because they were the painting's focus. Later, realism and perspective became more important, characterized by the technique of looking through a wire mesh to precisely copy dimensions onto a corresponding grid drawn on canvas. During the Renaissance, artists took a non-mathematical approach to drawing. Giotto di Bondone and Duccio di Buoninsegna made great advancements in perspective drawing, using symmetry, converging lines and foreshortening. Many renaissance painters also used fresco - painting directly onto walls - a technique which finds its prototype in cave and rock art. Graphics of this kind, from 30-40,000 years ago, have survived in Australia and France. A modern day equivalent is the mural.

Printmaking

Main article: Printmaking

Printmaking originated in China after paper was invented (about A.D. 105). Relief printing first flourished in Europe in the 15th century, when the process of papermaking was imported from the East. Since that time, relief printing has been augmented by the various techniques described earlier, and printmaking has continued to be practiced as one of the fine arts.

Line Art

Main article: Line art

Line art is any image that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color) to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. Line art is usually monochromatic, although lines may be of different colors.

Etching

Main article: Etching
Etching

Etching

Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. The acid eats the metal, leaving behind roughened areas, or, if the surface exposed to the acid is very thin, burning a line into the plate. The process is believed to have been invented by Daniel Hopfer (circa 1470-1536) of Augsburg, Germany, who decorated armour in this way, and applied the method to printmaking.

Etching is also a preliminary step in lithography. The Dutch artist M.C. Escher mastered the technique to perfection, specialising in etchings of impossible structures and oriental interlocking designs.

Etching is also used in the manufacturing of printed circuit boards and semiconductor devices.

[edit] Illustration

Main article: Illustration
An illustration of a character from a story; also, an illustration of illustrations
An illustration of a character from a story; also, an illustration of illustrations

An illustration is a visualisation such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text. The editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a political or social message.

Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter and serve a variety of functions, such as:

  • giving faces to characters in a story
  • displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook (e.g. A Typology)
  • visualising step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual
  • communicating subtle thematic tone in a narrative
  • linking brands to the ideas of human expression, individuality and creativity
  • making a reader laugh or smile
  • for fun (to make laugh) funny

NOMANCLATURE OF A SHIP

A ship usually has enough size to carry its own boats, such as lifeboats, dinghies, or runabouts. A rule of thumb used is "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can't fit on a boat". Consequently submarines are referred to as "boats", because early submarines were small enough to be carried aboard a ship in transit to distant waters. Other types of large vessels which are traditionally called boats are the Great Lakes freighter, the riverboat, and the ferryboat. Though large enough to carry their own boats and/or heavy cargoes, these examples are designed for operation on inland or protected coastal waters. Often local law and regulation will define the exact size (or the number of masts) which a boat requires to become a ship. Nautical means related to sailors, particularly customs and practices at sea. Naval is the adjective pertaining to ships, though in common usage it has come to be more particularly associated with the noun "navy."

HISTORY OF AIR PLANE

The dream of flight goes back to the days of pre-history. Many stories from antiquity involve flight, such as the Greek legend of Icarus and Daedalus, and the Vimana in ancient Indian epics. The first recorded attempts at aviation were made by Yuan Huangtou and Abbas Ibn Firnas. Leonardo da Vinci drew an aircraft in the 15th century. Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois d'Arlandes flew in an aircraft lighter than air, a balloon. The biggest challenge became to create other craft, capable of controlled flight.

Le Bris and his glider, Albatros II, photographed by Nadar, 1868
Le Bris and his glider, Albatros II, photographed by Nadar, 1868

Sir George Cayley, the inventor of the science of aerodynamics, was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as 1803, and he built a successful passenger-carrying glider in 1853.[2] In 1856, Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris made the first powered flight, by having his glider "L'Albatros artificiel" pulled by a horse on a beach. On 28 August 1883, the American John J. Montgomery made a controlled flight in a glider. Other aviators who had made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher and Octave Chanute.

Self-powered aircraft were designed and constructed by Clément Ader. On October 9, 1890, Ader attempted to fly the Éole, which succeeded in taking off and flying uncontrolled a distance of approximately 50 meters before witnesses. In August 1892 the Avion II flew for a distance of 200 metres, and on October 14, 1897, Avion III flew a distance of more than 300 metres. Richard Pearse made a poorly documented uncontrolled flight on March 31, 1903 in Waitohi, New Zealand, and on August 28, 1903 in Hanover, the German Karl Jatho made his first flight.

The Wright Brothers are commonly credited with the invention of the powered controllable aircraft in the English speaking world[1]. They made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and by 1905 Wright Flyer III was capable of fully controllable, stable flight for substantial periods. Strictly speaking, the Flyer's wings were not completely fixed, as it depended for stability on a flexing mechanism named wing warping. This was later superseded by the development of ailerons, devices which performed a similar function but were attached to an otherwise rigid wing.

Alberto Santos-Dumont a Brazilian living in France, built the first practical dirigible balloons from the end of the nineteenth century. In 1906 he flew the first fixed wing aircraft in Europe, the 14-bis, which was of his and Gabriel Voisin's design. It was the first aircraft to take off, fly and land without the use of catapults, high winds, or other external assistance. A later design of his, the Demoiselle, introduced ailerons and brought all around pilot control during a flight. In Brazil, Santos-Dumont is put forward as the true inventor of the aircraft, but owing to the competing claims, the concept of the invention of the first flying machine has substantial ambiguity.

Wars in Europe, in particular World War I, served as initial tests for the use of the aircraft as a weapon. First seen by generals and commanders as a "toy", the aircraft proved to be a machine of war capable of causing casualties to the enemy. In the first world war, the fighter "aces" appeared, of which the greatest was the German Manfred von Richthofen, commonly called the Red Baron. On the side of the allies, the ace with the highest number of downed aircraft was René Fonck, of France.

After the First World War, aircraft technology continued to develop. Alcock and Brown crossed the Atlantic non-stop for the first time in 1919, a feat first performed solo by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. The first commercial flights took place between the United States and Canada in 1919. The turbine or the jet engine was in development in the 1930s; military jet aircraft began operating in the 1940s.

Aircraft played a primary role in the Second World War, having a presence in all the major battles of the war, especially in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battles of the Pacific, as well as the Battle of Britain. They were also an essential part of several of the military strategies of the period, such as the German Blitzkrieg or the American and Japanese Aircraft carriers.

In October 1947, Chuck Yeager was the first person to exceed the speed of sound, flying the Bell X-1.

Aircraft in a civil military role continued to feed and supply Berlin in 1948, when access to railroads and roads to the city, completely surrounded by Eastern Germany, were blocked, by order of the Soviet Union.

The first commercial jet, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. A few Boeing 707s, the first widely successful commercial jet, are still in service after nearly 50 years. The Boeing 727 was another widely used passenger aircraft, and the Boeing 747 was the biggest commercial aircraft in the world up until 2005, when it was surpassed by the Airbus A380.

HISTORY OF BICYCLE

Several innovators contributed to the history of the bicycle by developing precursor human-powered vehicles, including the velocipede, invented in 1763 in France by Pierre Lallement. The documented ancestors of today's modern bicycle were known as pushbikes, Draisines or hobby horses. To use the Draisine, first introduced to the public in Paris by the German Baron Karl von Drais in 1818[3], the operator sat astride a wooden frame supported by two in-line wheels and pushed the vehicle along with his/her feet while steering the front wheel.

A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle photographed in the Škoda museum in the Czech Republic
A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle photographed in the Škoda museum in the Czech Republic

Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refined this in 1839 by adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sense. In the 1850s and 1860s, Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement took bicycle design in a different direction, placing the pedals on an enlarged front wheel. Their creation, of wrought iron and wood, developed into the "penny-farthing" (more formally an ordinary bicycle), featuring a tubular steel frame on which were mounted wire spoked wheels with solid rubber tires. These bicycles were not, however, for the faint hearted, due to the very high seat and poor weight distribution.

The subsequent dwarf ordinary addressed some of these faults by reducing the front wheel diameter and setting the seat further back, necessitating the addition of gearing, effected in a variety of ways, to attain sufficient speed. However, having to both pedal and steer via the front wheel remained a problem. Starley's nephew, J. K. Starley, J. H. Lawson, and Shergold solved this problem by introducing the chain drive connecting the pedals held with the frame to the back wheel. These models were known as dwarf safeties, or safety bicycles, for their lower seat height and better weight distribution. Starley's 1885 Rover is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle. Soon, the seat tube was added, creating the double-triangle diamond frame of the modern bike.

Bicycle in Plymouth at the start of the 20th century
Bicycle in Plymouth at the start of the 20th century

New innovations increased comfort, and ushered in a second bicycle craze, the 1890s' Golden Age of Bicycles. In 1888, Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop introduced the pneumatic tire, which soon became universal. Soon after, the rear freewheel was developed, enabling the rider to coast without the pedals spinning out of control. This refinement led to the 1898 invention of coaster brakes. Derailleur gears and hand-operated cable-pull brakes were also developed during these years, but were only slowly adopted by casual riders. By the turn of the century, cycling clubs flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and touring and racing were soon extremely popular.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century was stimulated by the wide use of these devices.

HISTORY OF A CAR

Although Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is often credited with building the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769, this claim is disputed by some, who doubt Cugnot's three-wheeler ever ran, while others claim Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, built the first steam powered car around 1672.[3][4] In either case François Isaac de Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, designed the first internal combustion engine which was fuelled by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and used it to develop the world's first vehicle to run on such an engine. The design was not very successful, as was the case with Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey, and Etienne Lenoir who each produced vehicles powered by clumsy internal combustion engines.[5]

In November 1881 French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile. This was at the International Exhibition of Electricity in Paris.[6]

An automobile powered by an Otto gasoline engine was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885 and granted a patent in January of the following year under the auspices of his major company, Benz & Cie. which was founded in 1883.

Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz is generally acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.[5] In 1879 Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, designed in 1878. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle and in 1896, Benz designed and patented the first internal combustion flat engine.

Approximately 25 Benz vehicles were built and sold before 1893, when his first four-wheeler was introduced. They were powered with four-stroke engines of his own design. Emile Roger of France, already producing Benz engines under license, now added the Benz automobile to his line of products. Because France was more open to the early automobiles, more were built and sold in France through Roger than Benz sold in Germany.

Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company, DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890 and under the brand name, Daimler, sold their first automobile in 1892. By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, either at the Daimler works or in the Hotel Hermann, where they set up shop after falling out with their backers. Benz and Daimler seem to have been unaware of each other's early work and worked independently.

Daimler died in 1900 and later that year, Maybach designed a model named Daimler-Mercedes, special-ordered by Emil Jellinek. Two years later, a new model DMG automobile was produced and named Mercedes after the engine. Maybach quit DMG shortly thereafter and opened a business of his own. Rights to the Daimler brand name were sold to other manufacturers.

Karl Benz proposed co-operation between DMG and Benz & Cie. when economic conditions began to deteriorate in Germany following the First World War, but the directors of DMG refused to consider it initially. Negotiations between the two companies resumed several years later and in 1924 they signed an Agreement of Mutual Interest valid until the year 2000. Both enterprises standardized design, production, purchasing, sales, and advertising—marketing their automobile models jointly—although keeping their respective brands. On June 28, 1926, Benz & Cie. and DMG finally merged as the Daimler-Benz company, baptizing all of its automobiles Mercedes Benz honoring the most important model of the DMG automobiles, the Maybach design later referred to as the 1902 Mercedes-35hp, along with the Benz name. Karl Benz remained a member of the board of directors of Daimler-Benz until his death in 1929.

In 1890, Emile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines, and so laid the foundation of the motor industry in France. The first American car with a gasoline internal combustion engine supposedly was designed in 1877 by George Selden of Rochester, New York, who applied for a patent on an automobile in 1879. In Britain there had been several attempts to build steam cars with varying degrees of success with Thomas Rickett even attempting a production run in 1860.[7] Santler from Malvern is recognized by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain as having made the first petrol-powered car in the country in 1894[8] followed by Frederick William Lanchester in 1895 but these were both one-offs.[8] The first production vehicles came from the Daimler Motor Company, founded by Harry J. Lawson in 1896, and making their first cars in 1897.[8]

In 1892, German engineer Rudolf Diesel got a patent for a "New Rational Combustion Engine". In 1897 he built the first Diesel Engine.[5] In 1895, Selden was granted a United States patent(U.S. Patent 549,160 ) for a two-stroke automobile engine, which hindered more than encouraged development of autos in the United States. Steam, electric, and gasoline powered autos competed for decades, with gasoline internal combustion engines achieving dominance in the 1910s.

Although various pistonless rotary engine designs have attempted to compete with the conventional piston and crankshaft design, only Mazda's version of the Wankel engine has had more than very limited success.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

BACHANS REVEALED THE AMOUNT SPENT ON ASH-ABHISHEK MARRIAGE

On a day when Madhuri Dixit’s song was making news for political reasons, actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan was singing a different tune in Parliament.

The Samajwadi Party MP alleged she and her family was being harassed by the Income Tax department about the marriage of her son Abhishek Bachchan with Aishwarya Rai.

"In the name of service tax people are even asked how much they spent on beauty parlours and phoolwallahas (florists) in the marriage. I have got a notice I can bring it and put it on the table,” she said.

Later in the day, Bachchans issued a clarification of the expenditure on their son's wedding. The total money spent is about Rs 2 crore which included money spent on clothes, flowers, mehendi, food, security and transport.

They have issued a list of gifts received on the wedding day.

Jaya's outburst is evidence enough of the spat between the Samajwadi Party and Congress as also the strained relations between the Gandhis and the Bachchans.

This is not the first time that a Bachchan family member has complained of harassment by the Congress and the Government.

When the Mumbai Income Tax department sent a notice to Amitabh Bachchan for his Rs-1 lakh sunglasses, the Bachchan family cried foul.

Of course, the Congress disagreed the law is being unfair to the Bachchans. Of course, you know she is wrong in making these charges,” said Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

Congress scion Rahul Gandhi’s entry into the UP political scene had triggered a war of words between him and Jaya.

As Abhishek and Aishwarya take centrestage as the new Bollywood's glamour couple number one and Rahul is annointed the new prince, the split between the two families is complete.

INDIAN GOVT IS READING OUR MAILS ....EH ?

This power will further be strengthened in the proposed revision of the IT Act," says cyber law expert Pavan Duggal.

Meanwhile, Privacy International, a global watchdog of privacy rights, had also reported that "India's Intelligence Bureau...have developed an e-mail interception tool similar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Carnivore system, which it claims to use in anti-terrorist investigations."

The concept of privacy laws itself is a novelty in India, except for the Article 21 of the Indian Constitution which guarantees some semblance of privacy rights.

Even this legal protection is non enforceable, contends Privacy International. "The only protest came from People Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) when it filed a PIL in 1996 challenging the excessive powers of the state to spy on the citizens.

HACKED GADGETS

Andreas Jakl developed the software and Stephan Selinger developed the hardware for the Shaker Racer at Symbian Resources. It reminds me of this RC Car Wiimote hack.

Stephan sent in some pictures of the car hardware and some additional details. Thanks Stephan!
“We are using an MSP430 microcontroller by Texas instruments on a board by www.olimex.com and the BlueNiceCom IV Bluetooth module. The microcontroller software is written in C.”

Video and some under the hood pictures after the jump.

“The car that we used is based on a standard €90 RC car bought from a toy shop. We modded it to accept Bluetooth instead of the proprietary wireless module that it was shipped with. A small microcontroller and a Bluetooth module replace the original wireless components. On the side of the mobile phone, a Python script translates the input of the acceleration sensor to commands that the microcontroller can understand in order to manage the steering servo as well as the main motor.

It turned out that this is a very intuitive and natural way to control the car. You do not need any practice as the concept can be understood instantly. So there’s nothing that can block your way to fun!”

Via: Hackszine

MOTOROLA MOTORIZR Z8

The Motorola Motorizr Z8, why the Motorizr well because that is what it does, it rises as it is a slide phone that curves around your face to fit better than other slide phones. It’s ergonomic design impresses and has style. But the Motorola Motorizr Z8 is not simple about looks and style, it’s also a 3G phone allowing you to make face-to-face calls.

You will find the Motorola Motorizr Z8 also makes ultra fast web browsing via HSDPA and is great for email too. The RIZR Z8 has a 2 megapixel camera with one-click shutter button and LED light and red eye reduction. For the music fans there is an MP3 player, 80MB of storage, and Bluetooth technology.

The Carphone Warehouse have the Motorolar Mororizr Z8 on the O2 network who have a tariff of - 35 – 18 months, 600 minutes and 500 texts per month, £25 18 months line rental, FREE one month’s insurance, 512KB inclusive internet browsing, and a FREE Morotola MOTORIZR Z8 handset.

  • Bluetooth
  • WAP
  • Faster data with GPRS
  • Music player
  • Camera phone
  • Polyphonic ringtones
  • Colour screen
  • Voice dialling
  • World phone (Quad-band)
  • Speakerphone
  • Picture messaging
  • 3G