One source date October 2010 A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical Space habitat rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA s Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Thomas L McKendree Tom McKendree . ref name original http www.zyvex.com nanotech nano4 mckendreePaper.html RTFToC17 Implications of Molecular Nanotechnology Technical Performance Parameters on Previously Defined Space System Architectures ref As with other space habitat designs, the cylinder would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force. The design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O 27Neill Gerard K. O Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing the habitat to be built much larger. In the original proposal, the habitat would consist of two cylinders approximately 460 km 290 mi in radius and 4600 km 2900 mi in length, containing 13 million square kilometers 5.1 million square miles of living space, ref name original nearly as much area as the nation of Russia . As originally proposed, the McKendree cylinder is simply a scaled up version of the Island Three O Neill cylinder . Like the O Neill cylinder, McKendree proposed dedicating half of the surface of the colony to windows, allowing direct illumination of the interior. ref name original The habitat would be composed of a pair of counter rotating cylinders which would function like Reaction wheel momentum wheels to control the habitat s orientation. ref name original McKendree cylinders in fiction McKendree Cylinders are a type of habitat in the fictional universe of the Orion 27s Arm Orion s Arm world building project , but scaled up to the theoretical limits of carbon nanotubes 1000 km in radius and 10,000 km long, containing 63 million square kilometers 24 million square miles of living space greater than the continent ... s Arm Encyclopedia Galactica McKendree Cylinder Space stations Category Carbon nanotubes Category Megastructures ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Cylinder, Iowa settlement type City nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps image map Palo Alto County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Cylinder Highlighted.svg mapsize 250px map caption Location of Cylinder, Iowa image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location coordinates region US IA subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name USA subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 flag Iowa subdivision type2 List of counties in Iowa County subdivision name2 Palo Alto County, Iowa Palo Alto government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 0.2 area land km2 0.2 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 0.1 area land sq mi 0.1 area water sq mi 0.0 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 110 population density km2 627.4 population density sq mi 1625.1 General information timezone North American Central Time Zone Central CST utc offset 6 timezone DST CDT utc offset DST 5 elevation footnotes elevation m 363 elevation ft 1191 coordinates display display inline,title latd 43 latm 5 lats 21 latNS N longd 94 longm 33 longs 0 longEW W Area postal codes & others postal code type ZIP code postal code 50528 area code Area code 712 712 blank name Federal Information Processing ... feature ID blank1 info 0455764 website footnotes Cylinder is a city in Palo Alto County, Iowa Palo ... that the name comes from a vehicle that passed over the creek and dropped a cylinder. There are other stories, but no clear definitive explanation. citation needed date August 2007 Geography Cylinder ... Cylinder Iowa es Cylinder Iowa fr Cylinder Iowa io Cylinder, Iowa kk ht Cylinder, Iowa nl Cylinder Iowa pl Cylinder Iowa pt Cylinder Iowa simple Cylinder, Iowa vo Cylinder ... more details
About the mechanical devices used to impart a force from a pressurized liquid or gas pneumatic cylinder ... of steel . A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel used to store gas es at above atmospheric pressure ... cylinder gas , though bottled gas is sometimes used. The United Kingdom and other parts of Europe more ... See Composite overwrapped pressure vessel for details ref Regulations and cylinder testing The transportation ... authority the DfT implements the regulations and appointment of authorised cylinder ... on the cylinder. This information usually includes the type of cylinder, the working or service ... testing is required either every five years or every ten years, depending on cylinder and its service ... attached to a nitrogen cylinder. From right main valve, cylinder pressure gauge, low pressure ... over the protruding valve to protect it from damage or breaking off in case the cylinder were to fall ... valve assembly. When the gas in the cylinder is ready to be used, the cap is taken off and a pressure ... pressure gauge can be used to estimate how much gas is left in the cylinder according to pressure ... pressure of the gas, and does not fall until the cylinder is nearly exhausted. The regulator could be adjusted to control the flow of gas out of the cylinder according to pressure shown by the downstream ... States, an argon cylinder will have a CGA 580 connection on the valve. High purity gases will sometimes ... at Duke University . Although protective caps covering the valves at the top of each cylinder are used .... If a compressed gas cylinder tips over, causing the valve block to be sheared off, the rapid release of high pressure gas may cause the cylinder to be violently accelerated, potentially causing property ... or transport cart with a strap or chain. In a fire, the pressure in a gas cylinder Boyles Law rises ... of the cylinder and there are no means to safely vent the pressurized gas to the atmosphere, the vessel ... . If the cylinder s contents are liquid, but become a gas at ambient conditions, this is commonly ... more details
Telescopic cylinders are a special design of a hydraulic cylinder or pneumatic cylinder which provide ... of a telescopic cylinder is 20 to 40 of the fully extended length depending on the number of stages ... Ultrametal, Telescopic Hydraulic Cylinders ref Image Double acting telescopic cylinder symbol,ISO1219 .svg thumb 150px Telescopic cylinder ISO 1219 symbol Heavy duty telescopic cylinders are usually ... http www.bimba.com Products TRD TC Telescoping Cylinders Bimba TRD Pneumatic Telescoping Cylinder ... cylinder is very difficult considering that the collapsed length of a single stage rod cylinder ... engineer to fit the single stage cylinder into the chassis of the dump truck with the dump body ... a telescopic style multi stage cylinder. ref http www.hydraulicspneumatics.com 200 Issue Article False ... cylinder, 8 stages, single acting, retracted and extended File 8 stage single acting air cylinder, Ergo Help.jpg thumb left pneumatic telescoping cylinder, 8 stages, single acting, retracted and extended ... of stages. There are exceptions however, with one pneumatic cylinder manufacturer successfully incorporating up to 9 stages in their cylinder designs. ref http www.ergo help.net pneumatic cylinders.html ... are the simplest and most common design. As with a single acting rod style cylinder, the single acting telescopic cylinder is extended using hydraulic or pneumatic pressure but retracts using ... to force the unpressurized hydraulic fluid out of the cylinder and cause it to retract to the fully ... Spider set up outside a building. This aerial platform vehicle uses a telescopic hydraulic cylinder to extend the platform Double Acting File EHTC.5DPL Cylinder, 5 Stage.jpg thumb left pneumatic telescoping cylinder 5 stage, double acting, demonstrating full extension and retraction A double acting cylinder is extended and retracted using hydraulic or pneumatic pressure in both directions. Double ... complexity is due to the requirement of adding retracting piston faces to all of the cylinder ... more details
italic title On the Sphere and Cylinder is a work that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BC. ref Harvnb Dunham 1990 p 99 ref It most notably details how to find the surface area of a sphere and the volume of the contained ball mathematics ball and the analogous values for a cylinder geometry cylinder , and was the first to do so. ref mathworld urlname Sphere title Sphere Retrieved on 2008 06 22 ref Contents The principal formulae derived in On the Sphere and Cylinder are those mentioned above the surface area of the sphere, the volume of the contained ball, and surface area and volume of the cylinder. In his work, Archimedes showed that the surface area of a cylinder is equal to math A 2 pi r 2 2 pi r h 2 pi r r h . , math and that the volume of the same is math V pi r 2 h. , math ref Harvnb Dunham 1994 p 227 ref On the sphere, he showed that the surface area is four times the area of its great circle . In modern terms, this means that the surface area is equal to math 4 pi r 2. , math The result for the volume of the contained ball stated that it is two thirds the volume of a circumscribe d Cylinder geometry cylinder , meaning that the volume is math frac 4 3 pi r 3. math Archimedes was particularly proud of this latter result, and so he asked for a sketch of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder to be inscribed on his grave he had shown that both the volume and the surface area of the sphere were two thirds that of the cylinder. Later, Ancient Rome Roman philosophy philosopher Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero discovered the tomb, which had been overgrown by surrounding vegetation. ref citation title Britannica Online contribution Archimedes His Works accessdate 2008 06 23 url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 32808 Archimedes 21480 His works ref ref383380&tocpanel sectionId toc214869 2CtocId toc214869 publisher Encyclop dia Britannica ref The argument Archimedes ... On The Sphere And Cylinder Category Ancient Greek mathematical works Category Euclidean geometry ... more details
More footnotes date May 2011 Image EdisonPhonograph.jpg thumb 200px Edison wax cylinder phonograph ca ... , these cylinder geometry cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph . The competing .... Early development align right Image CylinderRecordsWPackage.jpg thumb 200px Two Edison cylinder records ... 1903 cylinder Image EdisonSlip1903backside.JPG thumb Imprint of backside from the 1903 paper slip Image ColumbiaCylLabelPortion.jpg thumb Portion of the label on the outside of a Columbia Records cylinder ... thumbnail Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder made from black wax, ca. 1904. The term gold was a reference to the metal plated onto the master wax cylinder as the first part in the process of manufacturing the mould. Image AmberolLid.jpg thumb Amberol cylinder package lid Image BlueAmberolRim.jpg thumb Rim of Edison Blue Amberol cylinder The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison on 18 July 1877. His first test used tin foil wrapped around a hand cranked cylinder. ref cite web url ... Edison Cylinder Recorder date September 1, 2006 publisher Mix magazine Mix Magazine accessdate 2008 ... on the mandrel of the machine which played them. Early cylinder records would commonly wear out after ... Edison cylinder Lost Chord.ogg title One of the earliest surviving recordings of music An 1888 recording ... end Early cylinder machines of the late 1880s and the 1890s were often sold with recording attachments. The ability to record as well as play back sound was an advantage to cylinder phonographs over ... sound. In the earliest stages of phonograph manufacturing various competing incompatible types of cylinder ... a process that allowed a mould to be made from a master cylinder which then permitted the production ... ref The reference to gold was that the master cylinder was coated with gold as part of the production ... dance description Phonograph cylinder recording from German New Guinea on August 23, 1904, recorded ... more details
Image 60163 Tornado cylinder rod.jpg thumb right 300px The motion on the left hand side of 60163 Tornado 60163 Tornado . The black casting to the left houses the cylinder, in which slides the piston the piston rod is immediately above the wheel. The Cylinder engine cylinder s of a steam locomotive are the components that convert the power stored in the steam into motion. Cylinders may be arranged in several different ways. Early locomotives On early locomotives e.g. Puffing Billy locomotive Puffing ... became more common in the UK but many inside cylinder engines continued to be built. Three or four ... V Four Cylinders, LMS Princess Royal Class Crank angles On a two cylinder engine the Crank mechanism ... that there are no dead centre s. On a three cylinder engine, two arrangements are possible cranks set to give six equally spaced impulses per revolution the usual arrangement. If the three cylinder axes are parallel, the cranks will be 120 degrees apart, but if the centre cylinder does not drive the leading driving axle, it will probably be inclined as on most US three cylinder locomotives and on some of Nigel Gresley Gresley s three cylinder locomotives in Great Britain , and the inside crank ... used on three cylinder compound locomotive s which used the outside low pressure cylinders for starting ... are also possible on a four cylinder engine all four cranks set at 90 degrees. With this arrangement the cylinders act in pairs, so there are four impulses per revolution, as with a two cylinder engine ... G Class . Inside cylinders On inside cylinder engines the valve gear is nearly always inside ... locomotive s which may have only one cylinder. The only conventional steam locomotive with one cylinder that is known is the Nielson One Cylinder Locomotive. ref cite web last Self first Douglas title The Nielson One Cylinder Locomotive. publisher date 27 May 2003 url http douglas self.com MUSEUM LOCOLOCO onecylinder onecylinder.htm accessdate 02 December 2010 ref See also Bore engine Cylinder bore ... more details
argue that the purpose of castling is nullified by all files being equivalent, as they are on the cylinder ... on the queen side has the rook on h1 moving to d1, king moves to c1. Some cylinder chess ... to capture the rook. Horizontal cylinder chess and toroidal chess Image Toroidal chessboard.jpg ... position br Torus chess on a standard board In horizontal cylinder chess , first and last rank are connected ... tags reflist External links http www.bcvs.ukf.net cylin.htm Cylinder chess by George Jelliss, Variant ... internet server to play Cylinder chess and many other chess variants http www.chessvariants.org ... more details
italictitle Taxobox name Cylinder image Conus textile archiepiscopus 001.jpg image caption Apertural view of gastropod shell shell of Cylinder textile Linnaeus, 1758 form archiepiscopus , which is equivalent ... familia Conidae subfamilia Coninae genus Cylinder genus authority Montfort, 1810 synonyms ref synonyms Cylinder is a proposed genus of sea snail s, marine ocean marine gastropod mollusk s in the family ... 429035 Cylinder Montfort, 1810 06 23 11 ref This genus currently November 2011 is still treated by some ... & Tenorio 2009 taxonomy distinguishes Cylinder from Conus in the following ways ref name Systematic ... gastropod gastropods including Conidae cones . ref name Systematic Genus Cylinder Montfort, 1810 Shell ... but one species in this genus are found in the Indo Pacific region Cylinder dalli is found in the Eastern ... in the World Register of Marine Species WoRMS list. Species within the genus Cylinder ... in the family ref name WoRMS Cylinder abbas Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 is equivalent to Conus abbas Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 Cylinder aureus Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 is equivalent to Conus aureus Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 Cylinder barbieri G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1995 is equivalent to Conus barbieri G. Raybaudi Massilia, 1995 Cylinder bengalensis Okutani, 1968 is equivalent to Conus bengalensis Okutani, 1968 Cylinder canonicus Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 is equivalent to Conus canonicus Hwass in Brugui re, 1792 Cylinder dalli Stearns, 1873 is equivalent to Conus dalli Stearns, 1873 Cylinder dondani Kosuge, 1981 is equivalent to Conus dondani Kosuge, 1981 Cylinder gloriamaris Chemnitz, 1777 is equivalent to Conus gloriamaris Chemnitz, 1777 Cylinder glorioceanus Poppe & Tagaro, 2009 is equivalent to Conus glorioceanus Poppe & Tagaro, 2009 Cylinder legatus Lamarck, 1810 is equivalent to Conus legatus Lamarck, 1810 Cylinder nodulosus G.B. Sowerby II, 1864 is equivalent to Conus nodulosus G.B. Sowerby II, 1864 Cylinder pacificus Moolenbeek & R ckel, 1996 is equivalent to Conus pacificus Moolenbeek ... more details
A Bubbler cylinder is a component of a unit for the chemical vapor deposition metal organic chemical vapor deposition MOCVD . They are devices that are used for conveying electronic grade organometallic chemistry metalorganic compound s from a liquid or solid precursor into a usable vapor . Apparatus The container of the Bubblers is similar to the construction of a gas washing bottle and used for the protected storage of metalorganic compounds to exclude air oxygen , moisture . The bubbler has a supply pipe and a sampling tube. The inlet tube ends just before the bottom of the tube. In this tube, an inert gas is introduced, which bubbles through the liquid chemical a solid chemical will Sublimation phase transition sublime . The mixture of the controlled inert gas and the vaporized chemical leaves the cylinder into a downstream reaction vessel. The temperature is controlled by a thermostat, so that a defined, constant steam pressure can be achieved. The supply of the often expensive and sensitive chemical is controlled by the regulated flow of inert gas and the temperature of the bubbler, resulting in a given vapor pressure of the chemical. The tube between the bubbler and the reactor has to have a higher temperature than the bubble, otherwise the precursor would condensation condense in the tube and therefore uncontrolled droplets would be passed into the reaction vessel. If this happens with a solid precursor, it could plug the line. Application For example, during the production of high brightness light emitting diode s, gallium or other group III V elements are epitaxially deposited onto a single crystal silicon substrate. The gallium is introduced into the MOVPE reactor chamber via a vapor. This vapor is generated by bubbling an inert carrier gas such as nitrogen or argon through a cylinder with a dip tube through a metalorganic precursor such as trimethylgallium ... articles liquid.pdf Liquid injection system based on Mass Flow Controller DEFAULTSORT Bubbler Cylinder ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 In mathematics , specifically algebraic topology , the mapping cylinder of a function mathematics function math f math between topological space s math X math and math Y math is the quotient space quotient math M f 0,1 times X amalg Y , , sim math where the union is disjoint, and is the equivalence relation math 0,x sim f x quad text for each x in X. math That is, the mapping cylinder math M f math is obtained by gluing one end of math X math × math 0,1 math to math Y math via the map math f math . Notice that the top of the cylinder math 1 times X math is homeomorphic to math X math , while the bottom is the space math Y math . See ref Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher. Page 2 ref for more details. Basic properties The bottom Y is a deformation retract of math M f math . The projection math M f to Y math splits via math Y ni y mapsto y in Y subset M f math , and a deformation retraction math R math is given by math R M f times I rightarrow M f math math t,x ,s mapsto s cdot t,x math where points in math Y math stay fixed, which is well defined, because math 0,x s cdot 0,x math for all math s math . Interpretation The mapping cylinder may be viewed as a way to replace an arbitrary map by an equivalent cofibration , in the following sense Given a map math f colon X to Y math , the mapping cylinder is a space math M f math , together with a cofibration math tilde f colon X to M f math and a surjective homotopy equivalence math M f ... One can use the mapping cylinder to construct homotopy limits Citation needed date June 2010 given a diagram, replace the maps by cofibrations using the mapping cylinder and then take the ordinary pointwise ... cylinder is the homotopy pushout of the diagram where math f colon X to Y math and math text ... i Bigr 0,x i sim 1,f x i math References Reflist See also Mapping cylinder homological algebra DEFAULTSORT Mapping Cylinder Category Algebraic topology fr Cylindre d application pl Cylinder przekszta cenia ... more details
Infobox artefact name Cyrus Cylinder image File Cyrus Cylinder.jpg 250px Front view of a barrel shaped clay cylinder resting on a stand. The cylinder is covered with lines of cuneiform text File Cyrus Cylinder 2.jpg 250px Rear view of a barrel shaped clay cylinder resting on a stand. The cylinder is covered with lines of cuneiform text image caption The Cyrus Cylinder, obverse and reverse sides material ... Museum db 1880,0617.1941 id 327188 ref name BM database The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian language Akkadian cuneiform script ref name Dandamayev Cylinder in the name of the Achaemenid Empire Achaemenid ... name Dandamayev Cylinder Dandamayev Cylinder Dandamayev, 2010 01 26 ref It is currently in the possession of the British Museum , which sponsored the expedition that discovered the cylinder. It was created ... Empire . The text on the Cylinder praises Cyrus the Great, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings. The Babylonian king Nabonidus see earlier Cylinder of Nabonidus ... and found a similar inscription placed there by an earlier king. ref name Kuhrt 2007a The Cylinder ... sanctuaries, and makes no mention of Jews, Jerusalem, or Judea. ref name Janzen The Cylinder ... ref name Mitchell of the Cylinder s generic nature. ref name Arnold It was adopted ... circa 1854. The Cyrus Cylinder was discovered during Rassam s excavations in Babylon in February March ... Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Cyrus Cylinder in March 1879 during a lengthy programme of excavations ... back his finds and raise more funds for further work. The Cyrus Cylinder was found on the second of his ... marked E , where the Cyrus Cylinder was discovered in March 1879 Map of the site of Babylon in 1829. Hormuzd Rassam s diggers found the Cyrus Cylinder in the mound of Tell Amran ibn Ali marked with an E ..., the Cyrus Cylinder. ref name Vos Vos Vos 1995 , p. 267 ref Rassam gave conflicting accounts of where ... more details
of the object in both directions on every particle in the cylinder wall. It can be described ... of the cylinder wall that has the following two lengths as sides t is the radial thickness of the cylinder l is the axial length of the cylinder An alternative to hoop stress in describing circumferential ... vessel math sigma theta dfrac Pr t math for a cylinder math sigma theta dfrac Pr 2t math for a sphere where P is the internal pressure t is the wall thickness r is the inside radius of the cylinder ... on them to develop a force along the axis of the cylinder. This is known as the axial stress and is usually ... walled vessels When the cylinder to be studied has a r t ratio of less than 10 often cited as 20 the thin walled cylinder equations no longer hold since stresses vary significantly between inside .... For example, the simplest case is a solid cylinder if math R i 0 math then math B 0 math and a solid cylinder cannot have an internal pressure so math A P o math Practical effects Engineering ... more details
A Tipler cylinder is a cylinder of dense matter of infinite length, rotating about its longitudinal axis. This hypothetical object is Theory theorized to allow time travel and is also called a Tipler time machine . While references to infinite length cylinders can be found in literature back to 1936 ref name stockum cite journal first Willem Jacob last van Stockum authorlink Willem Jacob van Stockum url http www lorentz.leidenuniv.nl history stockum Proc R Soc Edinb 57 135 1937.jpg title The Gravitational Field of a Distribution of Particles Rotating about an Axis of Symmetry year 1936 journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ref ref name lanczos cite journal first Kornel last Lanczos authorlink Kornel Lanczos doi 10.1023 A 1010277120072 title On a Stationary Cosmology in the Sense of Einstein s Theory of Gravitation year 1924, republished in 1997 journal General Relativity and Gravitation publisher Springland Netherlands volume 29 issue 3 pages 363 399 ref , it was Frank Tipler in 1974 who recognized it would allow closed timelike curves ref name tipler paper cite journal first Frank last Tipler authorlink Frank J. Tipler url http www.geocities.com theophysics tipler rotating cylinders.pdf title Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation journal Physical Review D volume 9 year 1974 pages 2203 2206 doi 10.1103 PhysRevD.9.2203 archiveurl http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.geocities.com theophysics tipler rotating cylinders.pdf&date 2009 10 25 23 01 39 archivedate 2009 10 26 bibcode 1974PhRvD...9.2203T issue 8 Available in Graphics Interchange Format GIF format here pages http www.vialattea.net curvatura articoli t1.gif 1, http ......9.2203T here. ref and thus allow time travel. Tipler s solution was for a cylinder of infinite length. He suggested that a finite cylinder might produce closed timelike curves if the rotation rate ... comic includes a Tipler cylinder created as a work of art comic 569 . ref http starslip.com 2007 ... more details
Image Nabonidus cylinder sippar bm1.jpg thumb The Nabonidus Cylinder British Museum copy The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar is a long text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia 556 539 BC describes how he repaired three temples the sanctuary of the moon god Sin mythology Sin in Harran , the sanctuary of the warrior goddess Anunitu in Sippar , and the temple of Shamash ama in Sippar. The Nabonidus cylinder from Ur is particularly noteworthy because it mentions a son named Belshezzar , ref name livius.org http www.livius.org na nd nabonidus cylinder.html ref who is mentioned in the Book of Daniel . The cylinder states blockquote As for me, Nabonidus, king of Babylon, save me from sinning against your great godhead and grant me as a present a life long of days, and as for Belshazzar, the eldest son my offspring instill reverence for your great godhead in his heart and may he not commit any cultic mistake, may he be sated with a life of plenitude. ref http www.livius.org na nd nabonidus cylinder ur.html The translation of the Nabonidus Cylinder was made by Paul Alain Beaulieu , who is also ... the Ashurna irpal temple in Nimrud , the cylinder of Ashurbanipal at Kouyunjik , and the unique and historically ... April 4, 2011. ref The cylinder excavated in Babylon , in the royal palace, is now in the Pergamon Museum ... Cyrus the Great , who is mentioned as an instrument of the gods. The Nabonidus Cylinder contains echoes ... Cyrus Cylinder a lengthy titulary, a story about an angry god who has abandoned his shrine, who is reconciled ... the daily offerings. Prayers are also included. Translation The translation of the Nabonidus Cylinder ... highlight objects me c cylinder of nabonidus.aspx Cylinder of Nabonidus at the British Museum . http www.livius.org na nd nabonidus cylinder.html Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar Translation. http www.livius.org na nd nabonidus cylinder ur.html Nabonidus Cylinder from Ur Translation of a related document ... corpora documents Cylinder Category Ancient Near and Middle East clay objects Category Middle Eastern ... more details
Mesopotamian myth 7 The Barton Cylinder is a Sumerian language Sumerian creation myth , written on a clay cylinder in the mid to late 3rd millennium Anno Domini BC , which is now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Joan Goodrick Westenholz suggests it dates to around 2400 BC ref name Borr sBarcelona2000 cite book author1 Miguel ngel Borr s author2 Centre de Cultura Contempor nia de Barcelona title La fundaci n de la ciudad mitos y ritos en el mundo antiguo url http books.google.com books?id 3yPVFGPr0aoC&pg PA46 accessdate 24 May 2011 year 2000 publisher Edicions UPC isbn 9788483013878 pages 46 ref Description The cylinder is inscribed with a Sumerian language Sumerian cuneiform script cuneiform mythological text, found at the site of Nippur in 1889 during excavations conducted by the University of Pennsylvania . The cylinder takes its name from George Aaron Barton George Barton , who was the first to publish a transcription and translation of the text in 1918 in Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions . ref name Barton George Aaron Barton, http books.google.com books?id nn5hAAAAMAAJ&printsec frontcover&dq miscellaneous babylonian inscriptions&source bl&ots f9Tqkb8rHg&sig fNUlMe6MbiOARgsCsZH2pRSs528&hl en&ei ssvVS43MFYSclgfGr7W6CQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CAYQ6AEwAA v onepage&q&f false Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions Yale ... to it as The Nippur Cylinder and suggested it may date as far back as 2500 BC. ref cite book ... 1605060491 page 28 url http books.google.co.uk books?id t16tDOHZLLEC&pg PA28&dq 22Nippur cylinder ... 22Nippur 20cylinder 22&f false ref The cylinder dates to the Old Babylonian period, but Falkenstein ..., The Barton Cylinder, Acta Sumeriologica 16 1994 15 46. http cdl.museum.upenn.edu s x resources barton ... index.php?SearchMode Browse&ResultCount 1&txtID Txt P222183 CDLI The Barton Cylinder http dcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk catalogue MBI1.PSARG.BAB.xml A Ninurta narrative the Barton cylinder , The Diachronic ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2010 In geometry and topology , trivial cylinders are certain pseudoholomorphic curve s appearing in certain cylindrical manifold s. In Floer homology and its variants, chain complexes or differential graded algebras are generated by certain combinations of closed orbits of vector fields . In symplectic Floer homology, one considers the Hamiltonian vector field of a Hamiltonian function on a symplectic manifold in symplectic field theory , contact homology , and their variants, one considers the Reeb vector field associated to a contact form , or more generally a stable Hamiltonian structure . The differentials all count some flavor of pseudoholomorphic curve s in a manifold with a cylindrical almost complex structure whose ends at negative infinity are the given collection of closed orbits. For instance, in symplectic Floer homology, one considers the product of the mapping torus of a symplectomorphism with the real numbers in symplectic field theory, one considers the symplectization of a contact manifold. The product of a given embedded closed orbit with R is always a pseudoholomorphic curve, and such a curve is called a trivial cylinder . Trivial cylinders do not generally contribute to the aforementioned differentials, but they may appear as components of more complicated curves which do. Category Algebraic geometry Category Complex manifolds Category Symplectic topology ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A Desk on a chest is an antique Portable desk made up of two chests, the bottom one usually having drawers and the top one having a hinged desk surface which also serves as a side mounted lid. A Vargueno or Bargueno desk is a specific form of the Desk on a chest when it is mounted on a chest of drawers called a Taquillon . The Desk on a chest was popular during the Renaissance and to some extent during the Middle Ages , in much of Europe . It was also used by officers as a form of Campaign desk during much of the 18th and 19th centuries. When the top and bottom chests are permanently attached or built as one piece there is a desk form called a Fall front desk . It is supposed that the Fall front desk form gradually evolved from the Desk on a chest towards the end of the Renaissance. See also the list of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Desk On Chest Category Desks ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date October 2009 A Desk and bench can be an antique or a modern form of desk combined with a small bench or a stool made in exactly the same style and material. The desk is usually not very big and meant to be placed against a wall, in a little room or a hallway. Because of this intended venue and its small size it is in a sense a cousin to the telephone desk . In form it is in general a smaller brother of the writing table . The term Desk and bench is also sometimes used to describe a school desk which has a built in seat. A Desk and bench set is also sometimes called a Desk and stool . The desk is usually built with a single drawer or none, and the bench can sometimes have a small storage space under its seat. Great attention is usually paid to the aesthetics of the set in order to enhance the matching features. Since the stool or bench has no back it is put away completely under the desk when not in use, maximizing even more the available space. See also List of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Desk And Bench Category Desks ... more details
Image Resolute desk.jpg thumb right Model of the Resolute desk in the recreated Oval Office at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum . A partners desk is an antique desk form which is basically two pedestal desk s constructed from the start as one large desk joined at the front, for two users working while facing each other. The spelling of the term is irregular, with partner s desk and partners desk being common variants. This massive piece of furniture was first conceived in the United Kingdom to accommodate the work of bank ing partners. These gentlemen were usually senior bank officials who wished to do teamwork while keeping the convenience and the prestige of a pedestal desk. It was an adaptation of the earlier and sometimes more massive library desk , found in the library libraries of the mansion s of the gentry and the nobility . Most partners desks made in the 19th century were built of high quality wood s such as oak , mahogany or walnut and finished with tooled leather inserts on top and brass fittings all around. Many reproductions have been made in the 20th century. This type of desk is also known as a double desk . See also List of desk forms and types Resolute Desk , a specific partners desk used by US presidents References cite book last Gloag first John coauthors and Clive Edwards year 1991 title A Complete Dictionary of Furniture edition rev. ed. publisher Overlook Press location Woodstock, N.Y. isbn 0 87951 414 0 Category Desks fr Partners desk ... more details
Sports Desk may refer to Sports Desk Philippine TV program , a sports program shown on Solar Sports Scotsport , a Scottish sports television program shown on STV. See also SportsDesk disambig ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 A campaign desk is an antique desk of normal size which was used by officers and their staffs in rear areas during a military campaign . The campaign desk was usually the private property of the officer, as was his uniform and other military implements. It was in general handcrafted by a master cabinet maker according to the officer s wishes or following traditions for such desks. The desk forms varied greatly, but nearly all had as a common trait several features which made it easy to transport them from one campaign posting to another. For instance, a campaign desk version of a traditional pedestal desk form would have strong but removable fittings making it easy to break up the desk in three pieces two pedestals and one desktop surface. Each piece would have brass or iron handles mounted on it to facilitate handling. Campaign desk variations of the antique writing table seem to have been rather frequent. This form was usually in one piece, with strong handles and two pairs of folding legs. A smaller version of such a transportable writing table could be considered to be more a field desk than a campaign desk, since it could be moved frequently from one battlefield s rear area to another s as the war went on. Any campaign desk is in a sense also a portable desk . See also List of desk forms and types DEFAULTSORT Campaign Desk Category Desks ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A Plantation desk is an antique desk form. It is thought to have been originally used as a mail desk by postmen. The form is known to have been used on Southern plantations in the United States , but it is not limited to them. For some time communities of Shakers in New England built a large version of this form of desk. It was quite popular in the 19th century. Basically, the Plantation desk is a Fall front desk with a deeper stand or bottom part. The extra space or ledge of the bottom part of the desk serves as a support for the fall front, thus eliminating the need for retractable supports. Like a normal fall front desk the work surface must be cleared of all materials in order to raise it in a vertical position and thus close off the small drawers and pigeonholes set in front of the user. While the fall front desk was developed by placing a chest on its side, on a stand made for it, to its exact dimensions as is the case with the Bargueno desk , the plantation desk form was devised by placing such a chest on its side, on a table a bit too deep for it. The fall front usually settles at a slight angle once it is open, in order to give a slanted work surface to the user. Some plantation desks have two panel doors instead of a fall front and the ledge is hence much deeper since it serves as the main desktop surface. See also the list of desk forms and types . DEFAULTSORT Plantation Desk Category Desks ... more details
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