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  List of heroic fictional scientists and engineers
In contrast to the archetypical mad scientist, there are a lesser number of heroic scientists and engineers depicted in western culture who use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk.
Leonard of Quirm, superintelligent clockpunk engineer in the Discworld novels.
The scientists and engineers in The Andromeda Strain
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  Engineer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title "engineer" is normally used only by individuals who have an academic degree (or equivalent work experience) in one of the engineering disciplines.
Engineers and scientists are often confused in the minds of the general public.
In the US, the term "engineer" is also used to denote an operator of an engine of some sort, e.g., a railroad engineer denotes the operator of a locomotive, a ship's engineer denotes the operator of the steam engine on a steamship, and a stationary engineer is normally responsible for a stationary steam engine.
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 Fictional character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The opposite of a fictional character is a nonfictional character.
The protagonist (main character, sometimes known as the "hero" or the "heroine") of a traditional novel is almost always a round character; a minor, supporting character in the same novel may be a flat character.
Archetypical mad scientist; the scientist who's lust for power / knowledge and yearning to 'play God' leads to his / her defeat or ruin, usually through the construction of a terrible creature or weapon of his /her own devising.
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 List Scientist and Invention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In this list of heroic fictional scientists and engineers, an annotated alphabetical overview is given of some of the most well-known beings in this category.
List of Austrian scientists - This is a list of Austrian scientists and scientists from the Austria of Austria-Hungary.
All of special section on the impact business list scientist and inventions that pinpoint which we still reverberates around list scientist and inventions, describes statistical tools and attractions For candidates preparing to reflect current patent drawings.
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 Seach Engines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the broadest sense of the term, internal combustion engines can be said to have been invented in China, with the invention of fireworks during the Song dynasty, with some sources putting this invention a thousand years earlier still.
Very narrow angles of V combine some of the advantages of the V engine and the straight engine (primarily in the form of compactness) as well as disadvantages; the concept is an old one pioneered by Lancia, but recently reworked by Volkswagen.
Subaru produce water-cooled flat-4 and flat-6 "Horizontal" engines that are marketed as H-4 and H-6, despite the fact that their configuration has nothing to do with a real H engine.
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 Engine Tachometer
In the context of propulsion systems, an air breathing engine is one that uses atmospheric air to oxidise the fuel carried, rather than carrying an oxidiser, as in a rocket.
An engineer is someone who practices the engineering profession; a professional practitioner of engineering; someone who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems and produce goods for society.
A V engine is a common configuration for an internal combustion engine in which the pistons are aligned so that, if viewed along the line of the crankshaft, they appear to be in a V. The V configuration reduces the overall engine length and weight compared to an equivalent straight engine.
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 List of heroic fictional scientists and engineers
In contrast to the archetypical mad scientist, there are a lesser number of heroic scientists and engineers depicted in western culture who use their skills and knowledge for the betterment of others, often at great personal risk.
His is one of the few examples of a character name used for both heroic and evil scientists, as the TV comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 reused it for the mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester.
The scientists and engineers in The Andromeda Strain
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 Archive of fictional things - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of fictional people known by one name
List of species in folklore and mythology by type
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 Fictional character
The protagonist (main character, sometimes known as the "hero" or the "heroine") of a novel is certain to be a round character; a minor, supporting character in the same novel may be a flat character.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they are often mentioned outside the context of the fictional work they come from.
Achilles (Greek mythological hero, immune to all forms of injury except in the back of his heel, source of the term "Achilles heel", referring to a sole flaw, often seemingly insignificant)
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 Fictional character information - Search.com
The protagonist (main character, sometimes known as the "hero" or the "heroine") of a traditional novel is almost always a round character; a minor, supporting character in the same novel may be a flat character.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they can be referenced easily outside of the work from which they came, often because they have come to symbolize some archetype or ideal.
Archetypical mad scientist; the scientist who's lust for power / knowledge and yearning to 'play God' leads to his / her defeat or ruin, usually through the construction of a terrible creature or weapon of his /her own devising.
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 Engineer - ExampleProblems.com
An engineer is someone who practices the profession of engineering – a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems using technology.
The word "technologist" is sometimes used synonymously as it derives from the prefix Techno- and the suffix -ologist, hence, someone who studies technology.
However in some Latin countries, "technologist" is a somewhat lower certification at a level between technician and engineer.
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 Engineer Online Research :: Information about Engineer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
An engineer is someone who practices the profession of Engineering – a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems using Technology.
The word " Technologist " is sometimes used synonymously as it derives from the prefix Techno- and the suffix - Ologist, hence, someone who studies Technology.
In US Railroad terminology, "engineer" denotes the operator of a Locomotive.
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 Everything about Inventor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although some inventors may also be scientists, most of them are engineers in fact as they base their work on the discoveries of other scientists, experimenting with practical applications and combinations of those discoveries, and with improvements and combinations of existing devices, to create new useful devices.
Engineers are concerned with the design of a solution to a practical problem.
TRIZ expands approaches developed in systems engineering and provides tools and systemic methods for use in problem formulation, system analysis, failure analysis, and patterns of system evolution (both 'as-is' and 'could be').
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 List of superheroes: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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The Greatest American Hero The greatest american hero is an american television series which aired from 1981 to 1983 on abc....
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 Everything about Chapultepec Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Without an engineer in charge, the Crown ordered the building to be auctioned to a price equivalent to one fifth of the total already spent of the project.
list of mountains in Mexico The terrain and climate vary from rocky deserts in the north to tropical rain forest in the south.
In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private residence of the landowner.
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 Everything about Jean Baptiste Vaquette De Gribeauval   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
George Washington was listed as a Lieutenant General on the Continental Army rolls after his death since he wore three stars, but his actual military title was General and Commander In Chief.
Older engines like the catapult, onager, trebuchet and ballista are artillery, but the modern term really dates from the mid 15th century with bombards and then cannon.
In the West, the use of cannon was first recorded in the battles of the early 14th century, for instance, at the siege of Metz in 1324, and by the English against the Scots in 1327.
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 [ fact-about.be | Engineers Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NSPE represents individual engineering professionals and licensed engineers acrossall disciplines.
The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating,sharing, and applying...
Comprehensive source of information about the national organization for flengineers and engineering...
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 Everything about Category:Scottish Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When James Doohan (Scotty) was cast as the chief engineer on Star Trek, he reportedly stated "If you're going to have an engineer, you'd better make him Scottish"; "All the world's best engineers have been Scottish".
Because of this the Milwaukee School of Engineering granted Doohan an honorary degree in engineering.
It's generally considered ironic that he died on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, arguably the greatest engineering achievement in human history.
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 Everything about Chief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Until the application of the steam engine to ships in the early 19th century, oars propelled galleys or the wind propelled sailing ships.
As the means of transmitting the engine's power, the paddle wheel gave way to the more efficient screw propeller.
See also: List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy and List of escort aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.
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 Everything about 4-4-0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Here is a list of the most common wheel arrangements: in the illustration, which should be read left to right, with the front of the locomotive to the left, small o is a carrying axle, and a big O is a driving axle.
A more recent manufacturing technique, used in the Ford 4.6 liter engine and the Chrysler 2.0 liter engine for instance, is to forge the rod as a single piece from powdered metal, which allows more precise control of size and weight with less machining and less excess mass to be machined off for balancing.
A major source of engine wear is the sideways force exerted on the piston through the con rod by the crankshaft, which typically wears the cylinder into an oval cross-section rather than circular, making it impossible for piston rings to correctly seal against the cylinder walls.
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 Everything about Valeri Kubasov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Кубасов; born January 7, 1935 in Vyazniki) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
The signing of the treaty, however, was interrupted by the August Coup - an attempted coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev by conservative members of the Communist Party, referred to as "Hardliners" by the Western media.
Censorship was made in cases where performances did not meet with the favour of the Soviet leadership with newspaper campaigns against offending material and sanctions applied though party controlled professional organizations.
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 Everything about Anna McNeill Whistler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Her husband soon accepted a job in Russia as a railway engineer between Moscow and St.
George Washington Whistler was a prominent American railroad engineer in the first half of the 19th century.
In 1842 Whistler was employed by Engineer Melnikov as a Consultant on the building of Russia's first major railroad, the Moscow-St.
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 Everything about Maurice Lauré   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Maurice Lauré (1917 - 20 April 2001) is primarily known for creating the taxe sur la valeur ajoutée (TVA in French, otherwise known as value added tax (VAT) in English).
Originally an engineer with the French postal and telephone service (PTT), he joined the French tax inspectorate after World War II.
In 1952, he became joint director of the new tax authority, the Direction générale des impôts, which he had helped to create.
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Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
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