Mark I

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Mark I often refers to the first version of a weapon or military vehicle, and is sometimes used in a similar fashion in civilian product development. In some instances, the Arabic numeral "1" is substituted for the Roman numeral "I". "Mark", meaning "model" or "variant", can itself can be abbreviated "Mk."

Contents 1 In technology 1.1 In military and weaponry 1.2 Other vehicles 1.3 Other technologies 2 Other uses

[edit] In technology

[edit] In military and weaponry

• Mark I tank (1916), the first tank to be used in combat
• Supermarine Spitfire Mk I (1938); Royal Air Force fighter aircraft
• Mark I Fire Control Computer; United States Navy fire control computer used in World War II surface ships
• Mark I PBR (1966); 31-foot version of the US Navy riverine patrol boat
• The Mark I NAAK, an auto-injector carried by military personal for use in case of nerve agent attacks
• Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun; 1970s United States Navy dart-shooting underwater firearm
• Morey MK 1 Knife (1991); military-style close-combat weapon

[edit] Other vehicles

• Mk I Mini (1959-1967); the original Austin Mini and Morris Mini-Minor from British Motor Corporation

[edit] Other technologies

• Harvard Mark I (1944), an early automatic digital computer made by IBM
• Manchester Mark I (1949), an early Autocode computer
• Ferranti Mark I (1951), an early computer based on the Manchester Mark I
• Mark I (detector), a particle detector at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1973-1977
• The Lovell Telescope, called the Mark I between 1961 and 1970, then the Mark IA between 1971 and 1987
• Mesa Boogie Mark I (1969); an electric guitar amplifier designed in Northern California

[edit] Other uses

• Mark 1 or Mark I, the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
• Visual inspection has sometimes been called Mark I Eyeball in the US Military since the 1950s
• Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I, in Star Trek: Voyager, an artificially intelligent medical assistance program