12 résultats pour "manual"
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Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution, widespread replacement of manual labor by machines that began in Britain in the 18th century and is still continuing in some parts of the world.
The most important advance in iron production occurred in 1784 when Englishman Henry Cort invented new techniques for rolling raw iron, a finishing process thatshapes iron into the desired size and form. These advances in metalworking were an important part of industrialization. They enabled iron, which was relativelyinexpensive and abundant, to be used in many new ways, such as building heavy machinery. Iron was well suited for heavy machinery because of its strength anddurability. Because of t...
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Disputed Presidential Election of 2000 - U.
counts. At oral arguments on November 20, the justices seemed to be most interested in one issue: At what point did allowing re-counts risk making Florida too late toparticipate in the electoral college vote? Gore’s lawyers, led by David Boies, argued that the state had until December 12 to pick its electors, which allowed plenty oftime for the re-counts. Electors from each state would meet on December 18 to cast their votes. The next day the court ruled unanimously for Gore and granted a five-d...
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From Bush v.
legal requirements. This case has shown that punch card balloting machines can produce an unfortunate number of ballots which are not punched in a clean, complete way by the voter.After the current counting, it is likely legislative bodies nationwide will examine ways to improve the mechanisms and machinery for voting. B The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses astatewide...
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Automobile.
Electric motors have been used to power automobiles since the late 1800s. Electric power supplied by batteries runs the motor, which rotates a driveshaft, the shaftthat transmits engine power to the axles. Commercial electric car models for specialized purposes were available in the 1980s. General Motors Corporation introduced amass-production all-electric car in the mid-1990s. Automobiles that combine two or more types of engines are called hybrids. A typical hybrid is an electric motor with ba...
- Historique de manuel, adjectif Étymologie Emprunt au latin classique manualis, 'utilisé avec la main' ; du latin classiquemanus, 'main'.
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Alternative Medicine.
The field of chiropractic was founded by David Daniel Palmer in the 1890s. He believed that joint subluxation, or a partial dislocation, is a causal factor in disease andthat removal of the subluxation by thrusting on the bony projections of the vertebrae restores health. In addition to manipulating and adjusting bone and tissue, particularly in the spinal column, chiropractors use a variety of manual, mechanical, and electrical treatments.Chiropractors are most widely recognized for providing d...
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Poverty.
economic and demographic trends, and (7) welfare incentives. A Overpopulation Overpopulation, the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space, is closely associated with poverty. It can result from highpopulation density (the ratio of people to land area, usually expressed as numbers of persons per square kilometer or square mile) or from low amounts of resources, or from both. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources....
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PAGEAUX, DANIEL-HENRI. La littérature générale et comparée, Paris, Armand Solin éditeur
et Weltliteratur”. Així doncs, l’obra s’inicia amb una exposició de com s’han anat desenvolupant els estudis de literatura comparada des de l’origen, que l’autor situa el 12 de març de 1830 a l’Ateneu de Marsell a 2. L’evolució descrita permet observar que l’únic aspecte de connexió entre els estudis actuals i les pràctiques dels els inicis és l’esperit d’apertura a les literatures de les cultures estrangeres: idea central i definitòria de la disciplina, que va entrar a la universitat...
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Installer un µcontroller F210A
Zavio F210A Quick Installation Guide Please follow the installation steps below to set up your F210A IP Camera. Check the package contents against the list below. See P.1 Physical overview. See P.1 Install the hardware and connect all cables. See P.2 Microsoft OS: Use the software CD to install Intelligent IP Installer. See P.2 Access the IP Camera using Intelligent IP Installer. See P.2 Mac OS using Safari Browser. See P.4 Change light environment setting. See P.5 Change the Web I...
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Popular and Social Dance
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The Cakewalk
The cakewalk, a dance of African American origin, was intended to lampoon high-strutting whites at fancy dress balls.
master. The dance manuals published between 1550 and 1630, written by Thoinot Arbeau of France, Cesare Negri of Italy, and other dancing masters, describe dances such asthe pavane, galliard, allemande, courante, saltarello, and volta, as well as circular branles and progressive longways dances (for a line of couples, in which each couplerepeats the pattern with one new couple after another; see Country Dance). The sense of order and harmony so important during the Renaissance gave rise to forma...
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Telephone.
digits is dialed. The development of inexpensive and reliable amplification provided by the introduction of the transistor in the 1960s made practical the design of adialing system based on the transmission of relatively low power tones instead of the higher-power dial pulses. Today most telephones have push buttons instead of a rotary dial. Touch-Tone is an optional service, and telephone companies still maintain the ability to receive pulsedialing. Push-button telephones usually have a switch...
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Enciclopedia - lengua y litteratura.
problema de la sistematización y coordinación de todas las ramas del saber quedaría sin una solución adecuada hasta los tiempos modernos. Uno de los intentos más originales y fecundos en este sentido lo realizó el filósofo y estadista inglés Francis Bacon, que proyectó, aunque no terminó, su Instauratio Magna, o Gran reconstrucción (del saber humano). Concebida como una enciclopedia de todo el saber, esta obra constituye el primer intento de recopilar los conocimientos humanos con un método ap...