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    The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University...
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  • SSEM can refer to: Manchester Baby or Small-Scale Experimental Machine, historic computer South Seas Evangelical Mission, missionary organization in the...
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    History of Computers. Retrieved 7 May 2016. "The Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine – "The Baby"". Department of Computer Science, University of...
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  • for his thesis on "Universal High-Speed Digital Computers: A Small-Scale Experimental Machine". On leaving Cambridge in 1942, Tootill managed to get assigned...
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    C. (Feb 1951), "Universal High-Speed Digital Computers: A Small-Scale Experimental Machine", Proc. IEE, 98 (61): 13–28, doi:10.1049/pi-2.1951.0004, archived...
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    (February 1951), "Universal High-Speed Digital Computers: A Small-Scale Experimental Machine", Proc. IEE, 98 (61): 13–28, doi:10.1049/pi-2.1951.0004. Lavington...
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    an early form of programming language. The Manchester Baby (Small Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM) was the world's first electronic stored-program computer...
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    were small-scale integration (SSI) chips. Following Mohamed M. Atalla's proposal of the MOS integrated circuit chip in 1960, the earliest experimental MOS...
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    electricity. They are also sometimes used in solar cooking. A few are used experimentally to reflect motionless beams of sunlight into solar telescopes. Before...
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    In machine learning, a neural scaling law is an empirical scaling law that describes how neural network performance changes as key factors are scaled up...
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  • manufacturing of electronic tubes. After two months of testing, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM, nicknamed baby) finally worked. Once the feasibility...
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    intervention in Siberia in 1919. During the 1930s, the Type 3 heavy machine gun would see wide-scale use in Manchuria and China during the Second Sino-Japanese...
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  • Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists...
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    and built by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, the Experimental Model 1 and Experimental Model 2 submachine guns, proved inadequate, new requirements...
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    A scale model is a physical model that is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype). Scale models are generally smaller than large prototypes...
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  • materials, and for winning the Ansari X Prize with its experimental spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Scaled Composites was established in 1982 and purchased by the...
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  • that mirror human thought processes. By the early 1960s, an experimental "learning machine" with punched tape memory, called Cybertron, had been developed...
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  • The Kardashev scale (Russian: шкала Кардашёва, romanized: shkala Kardashyova) is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement...
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  • wind scale, called the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Experimental) [SSHWS]. The updated scale became operational on May 15, 2010. The scale excludes...
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    while a number were also adopted by civilian operators. The S.E.5 (Scout Experimental 5) was designed by Henry Folland, John Kenworthy and Major Frank Goodden...
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    The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a...
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    An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments...
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    −273.15 °C, is the lowest point in the thermodynamic temperature scale. Experimentally, it can be approached very closely but not actually reached, as...
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  • its development.  At inception, it was known as the SSEM (Small Scale Experimental Machine), coined the "Manchester Baby", successfully running its first...
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    NASA X-43 (category 2000s United States experimental aircraft)
    The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight...
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    portable light machine gun until the introduction of the M60 machine gun in 1957. The US entered World War I with an inadequate, small, and obsolete assortment...
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    covered in scales. Snakes are entirely covered with scales or scutes of various shapes and sizes, known as snakeskin as a whole. A scale protects the...
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    97 machine guns. One coaxial Type 97 machine gun was fitted in the front hull next to the Type 1 37 mm tank gun and a ball mounted Type 97 machine gun...
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    follows: After experimentation on the Brighton experimental ensemble, Ofcom advertised for small scale DAB multiplexes to broadcast across the United...
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    Type 92 heavy machine gun was deemed as acceptable. The Type 1 is essentially a smaller, lighter version of the Type 92 heavy machine gun. It employs...
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