Diesel Engine and Gas Turbine

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Nick Schulz, Engines of Commerce; The unheralded machine power that moves manufactured goods and raw materials around the world. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2010 (title in the print).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704584804575645034285007578.html
(book review on Vaclav Smil, Prime Movers of Globalization. MIT Press, 2010)

Note:
(a) Rudolph Diesel (1958-1913) obtained in 1892 a patent for an engine he designed.
(b) Frank Whittle (1907-1996; father of jet propulsion) took out a patent designing a gas turbine for jet propulsion, crediting work of a Norwegian, Ægidius Elling.
(c) "The turbofan is a type of aircraft jet engine based around a gas turbine engine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan
(d) Pollyanna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna
(a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter)
(e) mug (vt): "to attack suddenly : BUSHWHACK <got mugged in the press by his colleagues>"   www.m-w.com


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(1) Stephen Miller, Neutron Bomb Was His Life's Mission. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703994904575647123407618324.html
(Samuel T Cohen)

Quote: "With the fall of the Soviet Union and the development of precision-guided conventional missiles, the case for the neutron bomb weakened, and the last ones in the U.S. arsenal were dismantled nearly a decade ago [under George W. Bush]

(2)
(a) Vincent Y. Chao and William Lowther, WikiLeaks says it has Taiwan cables. Taipei Times, Dec. 1, 2010
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2010/12/01/2003489844

(b) 台国防部成立小组清查维基解密涉台机密
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2010/12/101201_taiwan_wiki_leaks.shtml

(c) 维基揭密：中国以经济笼络阻止台独
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101201-WIKILEAKS-SINGAPORES-LEE-TAIWAN-111110579.html

(3) China discloses new SD-10 combat capabilities. Jane's, Dec. 1, 2010.
http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jmr/jmr101201_2_n.shtml

Note: The PL-12 (PiLi-12, 霹雳-12), also designated SD-10 (ShanDian-10, 闪电-10); in service since 2007. Wikipedia.


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