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safety lamp

(Encyclopedia)safety lamp, oil lamp designed for safe use in mines and other places where flammable gases such as firedamp (see damp) may be present. Its invention (c.1816) is usually attributed to Sir Humphry Davy...

anticyclone

(Encyclopedia)anticyclone, region of high atmospheric pressure; anticyclones are commonly referred to as “highs.” The pressure gradient, or change between the core of the anticyclone and its surroundings, combi...

factory

(Encyclopedia)factory, place of production characterized by wage labor, the use of machinery, and the division of labor. The large-scale use of machinery differentiates factory production from simple manufacture, a...

Hudson, river, United States

(Encyclopedia)Hudson, river, c.315 mi (510 km) long, rising in Lake Tear of the Clouds, on Mt. Marcy in the Adirondack Mts., NE N.Y., and flowing generally S to Upper New York Bay at New York City; the Mohawk River...

airline industry

(Encyclopedia)airline industry, the business of transporting paying passengers and freight by air along regularly scheduled routes, typically by airplanes but also by helicopter. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin set up ...

pilotage

(Encyclopedia)pilotage: see air navigation.

automatic pilot

(Encyclopedia)automatic pilot: see air navigation. ...

GEM, acronym for ground-effect machine

(Encyclopedia)GEM: see air-cushion vehicle.

Hovercraft

(Encyclopedia)Hovercraft: see air-cushion vehicle. ...

aneroid altimeter

(Encyclopedia)aneroid altimeter: see air navigation. ...