Originally these were developed in the early 1800s for workers to keep their tools from being stolen while on coaches and on board ships.
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Now the laser is being tested by the Navy on board ships and by the Army at its White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
"This welcome reduction has been the cumulative result of increased vigilance and patrolling by the littoral states and the continued precautionary measures on board ships, " the report said.
The 4th Infantry Division, for instance, was going to be used to open up a second front from Turkey, but when the Turks prevaricated the troops remained on board their ships.
After two fires on board cruise ships in the 1990s, the then-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said the cruise industry needed to do more in the way of training and fire prevention.
Before that, she was in the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), which ran services such as bars, shops and cafes at British military bases and on board Royal Navy ships.
"Although alcohol is available on board Royal Navy ships and submarines, its consumption is extremely limited and the RN's promotion of healthy living, coupled with the professionalism of modern sailors, means that fewer sailors drink at sea than ever before, " he added.
The group were arrested in Laos and brought to China in May last year, after Beijing said the attack had happened on board Chinese-flagged ships.
One of the driving forces behind the trip is Scottish entrepreneur and Stagecoach co-founder Ann Gloag, who is on the international board of Mercy Ships.
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Now since the 360 already ships with wireless technology on board, it would seem relatively simple to implement a cable-free controller for this particular deployment.
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What is more, prior to the Gulf War, the RRF ships had no crews on board leading to a long activation time in an emergency.
So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
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Many of the RRF ships now have small retention crews on board to keep the ship's systems "warm" and ready to go in an emergency.
Though it ships from Texas Instruments with Angstrom Linux on board, it's also tuned to support Android and Ubuntu, and arrives pre-loaded with the Cloud9 IDE.
Long ago, in the days before passenger ships featured climbing walls, ice rinks, on-board zip lines and nonstop gastronomic gorging sessions, stately ocean liners plied the transatlantic route between London and New York.
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Once a storm caused two ships to sink in the same area and all on board were lost at sea, save one from each ship, who survived only because they swam to a nearby island.
The new Disney ships feature almost Michelin-level fine dining, elegant on-board spa services, and adult-only tours, says Brown.
The Exodus which set sail from France in July 1947 with 4, 515 Jewish Holocaust survivors on board was the Zionist response to a new British policy to force illegal immigrant ships to return to Europe.
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On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area.
Drewry Shipping Consultants estimates that nearly half the ships due to be delivered last year are still sitting on the slipway or the drawing board.
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