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Holt had designed a particularly compact compound engine and taken great care with the hull design, producing a light, strong, easily driven hull. [24] SS Agamemnon (1865) The efficiency of Holt's package of boiler pressure, compound engine and hull design gave a ship that could steam at 10 knots on 20 long tons of coal a day. This fuel ...
Roy Fox Lichtenstein [2] (/ ˈ l ɪ k t ən ˌ s t aɪ n /; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.He rose to prominence in the 1960s through pieces which were inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style.
In woodblock printing, a relief image of an entire page is carved into blocks of wood, inked, and used to print copies of that page. It originated in the Han dynasty before 220 AD, used to print textiles and later paper, and was widely used throughout East Asia. The oldest dated book printed by this method is The Diamond Sutra (868 AD).
A battery of static QF 3.7-inch guns on railway-sleeper platforms at Hastings on the south coast of England, July 1944 The British defence against German long-range weapons was known by the codename Operation Crossbow with Operation Diver covering countermeasures to the V-1.