Thomas Henry Huxley was an English naturalist. He was born in 1825 at Ealing and died in 1895. He graduated MB at the University of London in 1845, and entered the royal navy as assistant-surgeon in 1846. He sailed with HMS Rattlesnake on a surveying expedition to Australasia, during which he sent a number of valuable papers to the Royal Society. After being professor of natural history in the School of Mines, Eullerian professor of physiology to the Royal Institution, Hunterian professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, president of the British Association meeting held at Liverpool in 1870, lord-rector of Aberdeen University in 1872, secretary of the Royal Society, substitute professor of natural history for Professor Wyville Thompson at Edinburgh in 1875 and 1876, a member of various royal commissions on fisheries, vivisection, universities, etc, and inspector of salmon fisheries, he resigned this and almost all his other offices in 1885 on account of ill health.
Amongst his works are The Oceanic Hydrozoa (1857), On the Theory of the Vertebrate Skull, Man's Place in Nature (1863), On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, a series of lectures to working-men delivered in 1862, Elements of Comparative Anatomy (1864), Elementary Physiology (1866), Introduction to the Classification of Animals (1869),
Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870), Critiques and Addresses (1873), American Addresses (1877), Physiography (1877), Anatomy of Invertebrate Animals (1877), The Crayfish (1879), Science and Culture (1882), etc. Research Thomas Huxley
The Arjun Mk 1 is India's first indigenous main battle tankdesign. Production was delayed by problems, including the lack of a suitable engine, and the Arjun was held up before finally entering service in 1994. The Arjun is manned by a crew of four and is armed with a 120 mm stabilised gun and one 7.62 mm machine-gun. Powered by a MTUMB 838 Ka 501 water-cooled diesel engine the Arjun has a top speed of 72 kmh and a range of 400 km. Research Arjun Mk 1
The Gepard is a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun developed to protect armoured formations. The Gepard uses the hull of the Leopard 1tank with a new turret mounted which can traverse through 360 degrees and is armed with two 35 mm cannons. The Gepard is manned by a crew of four and powered by a MTUMB 833 Ca M500 10-cylinder multi-fuel engine providing a top speed of 65 kmh and a range of 550 km. Research Gepard
The IMA MB 50 was a Brazilian-made licensed copy of the Danish Madsen Model 1946 sub-machine-gun (which is almost identical to the Madsen M50) used by the Brazilian armed forces and police. The IMA MB 50 was a blowback operated, automatic weapon chambered for the .45 ACPcartridge which it took from a 32-round box magazine. It had a cyclic rate of 650 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 280 meters per second. The IMA MB 50 had a 213 mm long barrel, a folding stock and blade foresight and an aperture rearsight. Research IMA MB 50
The MB-3 Tamoyo is a Brazilian Main Battle Tank (MBT) first prototyped in 1987. The MB-3 Tamoyo is manned by a crew of 4 and powered by a Detroit Diesel 8V-92TA diesel engine rated at 736 hp providing a top road speed of 67 kmh and a range of 550 km. The MB-3 Tamoyo is armed with a 105 mm British Royal Ordnance L7A3 rifled gun, one 12.7 mm coaxial machine-gun, one 7.62 mm anti-aircraft machine-gun and four smoke dischargers. Research MB-3 Tamoyo
The Commodore Amiga was an American personal computer produced in 1985 based on the Motorola M1 68000 processor running at 8 Mhz. The Commodore Amiga was fitted with 512 kb of RAM, expandable to 8.5 mb and ran the Amiga DOS operating system. The Commodore Amiga had a 16-colour screen with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells and an integral 3.5 inch floppy disk drive. Research Amiga
The Amstrad PC 1512 was a British personal computer produced in 1986. The Amstrad PC 1512 introduced low-cost personal computers to the market, costing one quarter what it's competitors did at the time, roughly 400 pounds compared to the more common price tag of just under 1500 pounds. The Amstrad PC 1512 was based upon the Intel 8086 processor running at 8 Mhz and was fitted with 512 kb of RAM, expandable to 640 kb and ran MS-DOS 3.2 and the DOS+ operating systems. The Amstrad PC 1512 had a 14-inch 16-colour monitor with a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells. Storage was provided by 5.25-inch 360 kb floppy disk drives and a 10 or 20 mb internal hard disk. Research Amstrad PC 1512
ArGoSoft Mail Server is a fully functional SMTP/POP3/Finger email server for the Windows operating system. It' s very compact, takes only about 1 Mb of disk space, does not have any specific memory requirements, and is very easy to use. Research ArGoSoft Mail Server
The Axis PC is a computer from Atlantic Systems based upon the 333mhz Intel Celeron Processor and supplied with 64 mb of RAM, a 4.3 gb hard drive, an ATI 4 mb 3d AGP graphics card, CD-ROM player, sound card, 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and a 56K voice and faxmodem. Research Axis PC
The Compaq Deskpro 386 was one of the first 32-bit personal computers marketed, being introduced in 1986 with a retail price starting at 5800 pounds (four times the price of a standard IBM compatible personal computer which would typically cost just under 1500 pounds). The Compaq Deskpro 386 was based on the then new Intel 80386 processor running at 16 Mhz, the motherboard having a slot for an 80287 maths co-processor and was fitted with 1 mb of RAM expandable to 14 mb and ran the MS-DOS operating system. The Compaq Deskpro 386 had a 16-colour display with a resolution of 640 x 350 pixels or 80 x 25 character cells and a 130 mb hard disk and a 1.2 mb floppy disk drive (various models were produced). At the time it was said that the Compaq Deskpro 386 made the desktop computer into a mini computer. Research Compaq Deskpro 386
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