[HN Gopher] The Taming of the Screw (2000)
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       The Taming of the Screw (2000)
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2024-11-09 18:46 UTC (7 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (americanhistory.si.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (americanhistory.si.edu)
        
       | mmooss wrote:
       | This essay must be quite old:
       | 
       | "... our newest generation of submarines, the Seawolf-class, does
       | not even use propellers. Neither will the future generation, the
       | Virginia-class, still on the computer design screen."
       | 
       | The first Virginia class submarine was commissioned in 2004. [0]
       | 
       | [0] https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-
       | FactFiles/...
        
         | puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
         | The exhibit in question opened in 2000, so the article is
         | likely from 1999.
         | 
         | https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/fast-attacks-and-boomers-subm...
        
         | gmiller123456 wrote:
         | Article says "copyright 2000" at the bottom.
        
       | srean wrote:
       | Coming from ColinWright, I was more than half expecting this to
       | be about kinematics of rotations and translation, well, screw
       | theory, no Lie (*). Nonetheless this is going to be a good read.
       | 
       | An Akula class submarine, mentioned in the article, an
       | uncharacteristically silent Russian attack submarine, was leased
       | out to the Indian navy. I remember that there were intelligence
       | failure from the Indian side that led to the leak of propeller
       | acoustics of 'some' submarines - data for the Kilo class and the
       | Scorpenes were leaked, not sure about Akula.
       | 
       | (*) In the off chance that the other screw is interesting too,
       | there is this
       | https://archive.org/details/theoryscrewsast00ballgoog to take for
       | a spin, especially for those who have enough time on their hands.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | > _no Lie_
         | 
         | [How very Sophusticated, an alternating screw theory]
        
           | srean wrote:
           | Thanks for humoring.
        
       | gpderetta wrote:
       | Aside from the article itself being interesting, it is nice to
       | see bits of the old internet resurfacing from time to time.
        
       | lerp-io wrote:
       | kinda looks exactly like a cpu fan
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _The Taming of the Screw (2000)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553301 - Nov 2018 (23
       | comments)
        
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