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2. Nail file - Wikipedia

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   Emery boards are inexpensive and disposable, making them a sanitary alternative to metal nail files. The emery board was first patented by J. Parker Pray of New York in 1883. [3] Emery boards are generally less abrasive than metal nail files, and hence, emery boards may take longer to file down nails than metal nail files.

3. Emery (rock) - Wikipedia

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   Emery, or corundite, is a dark granular rock used to make an abrasive powder. The rock largely consists of corundum (aluminium oxide), mixed with other minerals. Industrial emery may contain a variety of other minerals and synthetic compounds. Crushed or naturally eroded emery (known as black sand) is used as an abrasive. Turkey and Greece are ...

4. Mary E. Cobb - Wikipedia

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   In 1884 Mary E. Cobb and J. Parker Pray divorced, and by court order Mary retained custody of her children and proprietorship of the business, and reverted to her maiden name as Mrs. Mary E. Cobb. [4] In that same year she and her ex-husband made their most lasting contribution to the nail care industry with the invention of the emery board. [5]

5. Nail (fastener) - Wikipedia

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   Nails are made in a great variety of forms for specialized purposes. The most common is a wire nail. [2] Other types of nails include pins, tacks, brads, spikes, and cleats. Nails are typically driven into the workpiece by a hammer or nail gun. A nail holds materials together by friction in the axial direction and shear strength

6. Bed of nails - Wikipedia

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   A bed of nails is an oblong piece of wood, the size of a bed, with nails pointing upwards out of it. [1] While it appears at first glance that anyone lying on such a "bed" would be injured by the nails, if the nails are numerous enough, the weight is distributed among them so that the pressure exerted by each nail is not enough to puncture the ...

7. Emery N. Brown - Wikipedia

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   Emery Neal Brown (born 1957) [1] is an American statistician, computational neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist.He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH.