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PHOTOS
Signal
flags on battleship
USS Missouri,
Aug. 1944
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July
7, 1855
How Many Trees make a Ship.
It requires 2200 full grown trees or the matured
crop of forty-four acres of woodland to furnish
timber for a single 74-gun ship.
Scientific American, Vol.10 No.43 |
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MISCELLANY
Siemens
& Halske
Electric locomotive
Berlin 1879 |
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anniversaries
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MISCELLANY
Dzus Fasteners poster
1940s
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July
23, 1759
Keel
laid for
HMS Victory
at Chatham Dockyard
The oldest naval ship
still in commission |
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ART
Auxiliary
steamer
Holsatia
ca. 1875 |
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July
30, 2009
Boeing rolls out P-8A Poseidon, long-range anti-submarine and
anti-surface warfare, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft
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"The
P-8A Poseidon will equip the US Navy with the most advanced
multi-mission maritime patrol
and reconnaissance aircraft in the world."
Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Integrated Defence
Systems, July 30, 2009
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