... the original form of this instrument, were frustrated with the limitations imposed on it by its inability to make rapid pitch changes. This deficit eventually led to the invention of machine timpani. The timpani of the eighteenth century, along with the repertoire written for it by orchestral composers, underwent many changes over time. With the introduction of kettledrums to fifteenth Europe ... improve the instrument by adding a mechanical device that would allow quick pitch changes. This type of timpani is known as machine timpani. Machine timpani are kettledrums that can be rapidly ...

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... Wright. Art Deco was a style that represented many different things from the automobile to plants that were equivalent to the time period it reigned in. "An embodiment of the machine age, art deco reflected the recent decades of rapid technological advance and an aesthetic appreciation of mechanical production They explored and adapted representations of the ... machine. A stylized and sometimes allegorical celebration of modern technological marvels - the automobile, the train, the airplane, electricity, telecommunications, radio, skyscrapers, bridges and related manifestations of conte...

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... in the world. The Hollywood film industry has been thriving for over a hundred years. The filmmaking in other countries is in many ways always playing catch up to the Hollywood machine. On other accounts such as Armes the Third World is a distinct and beautiful form artistic media separate from anything Hollywood offers to the world. The reason for film in many ... ...

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... while aiding Europe with Marshall Plan. Western European countries agreed to receive the aid of America, so American government provided them not cash but credit to purchase commodities, equipment, and machine tools in the United States. Until June 30, 1952, when was the end of Marshall Plan, the United States had appropriated 13 billion dollar in total to Western Europe and ... ...

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... gave the West an advantage over the rest of the world. Vaccines were developed. Telegraphs became essential tools of communication. The steamboat and railroad drastically reduced transportation costs for materials. Machine guns allowed countries of the Western world to simply mow down the competition. The Europeans used these technological advancements to make the assumption that their race was far more superior ... ...

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... rest was dumped. She confirmed the worst teetering on the brink of disaster. Dr. Harris, head of the Northern Cod Review Panel, called the modern fishing technology, "the greatest killing machine ever invented" (LeBlanc 1997). Not only was the fishing pressure being increased by Canadians, but more boats kept arriving from Europe, the United States, Latin America and Asia to scoop ... ...

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... 1811-1816 made such responses with violence as a means of making a point. By destroying factory property the government was angered and responded with it's Tory politician, Spencer Perceval, who made machine breaking a capital offence. After the Peterloo Masacre, there were new laws introduced, the Six Act which were unjust and very repressive for the urban working class. The Poor Law Amendment ... ...

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... the same purpose as the allied raids. The main feature of the first Great War was the stagnant, war-of-attrition trench combat. By the end of WWI, rapid-firing machine guns and mobile tanks were able to mow down any hope of raid on defending trenches. This created a new, much more mobile style of warfare, characterized by the Nazi blitzkrieg ... ...

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... , nations would be hard pressed and tactically foolish to enter a conflict or exercise military might alone to accomplish their goals. While the other factors involved contributed greatly to the war machine breathing to life, the alliances are what caused it to become the "Great War". Perhaps war could have been avoided, or perhaps the situation would have erupted into various smaller ... ...

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... was two and a half times larger than any other. Germany responded to the move by Britain and expanded their naval units. New forms of weapons such as poison gas and machine guns were created. Efforts were made at the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 to stop this arms race by calling for a worldwide disarmament, but these failed miserably. The arms ... ...

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... controls than ever before. The 19th century had itself seen the culmination of the Industrial Revolution that had begun in the 18th, but the transformation wrought by steam power, steel, machine-made textiles, and rail communications was only the beginning. Still more rapid and spectacular changes came with further advances in science and technology: electricity, telegraphy and telephony, radio and television ... ...

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... pursue new investments abroad, especially in Africa and Asia, and to strengthen their economic empires. Technology and military might became a great influence toward colonialism. New weapons, such as the Maxim machine gun, proved to be unstoppable. Vaccines and new quinine were created to combat diseases, like malaria, when entering foreign lands. Communication advancements in the steamship and the telegraph allowed countries ... ...

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... 400 B.C. when Archytas, a Greek scholar, built a wooden pigeon that moved through the air. Several inventors made many attempts at flight but none succeeded. Such attempts include the omithopter, which was a machine that created lift by moving wings and caused propulsion with a propeller attached to the backed and was originally designed by Leonardo de Vinci but never succeeded in full flight. It ... ...

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... the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the war was 75% greater than in peacetime - US financed the war by taxes and war bonds - WWII cost over ... ...

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... a devastating world power. Starting with technological imports from Great Britain, the U.S. continued in its strive for technology with the development of the cotton gin in the 1820's and the sewing machine in the 1870's. The development of arms and interchangeable parts created a monopoly in many production areas that enabled them to advance quickly. The increasingly larger companies created the spread of ... ...

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... barbed-wire stockade surrounding the 18,000 people there was like that of the prison camps of the Germans. There were the same turrets for the soldiers and the same machine guns for those who might attempt to climb the high wiring. The buildings were covered with tarred for the low winter temperatures. No federal penitentiary treats its adult prisoners like ... ...

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