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  2. Robertson screw - Wikipedia

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    A Robertson screw, also known as a square screw [1] or Scrulox, [2] is a type of screw with a square-shaped socket in the screw head and a corresponding square protrusion on the tool. Both the tool and socket have a slight taper .

  3. Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition

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    It flew for 19.46 seconds and reached an altitude of 20 cm. [6] With no human-powered helicopter getting off the ground since 1994, in 2009 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation pledged to AHS International an increase in the size of the remuneration to $250,000, which significantly increased interest in the competition. [ 5 ]

  4. Neal McDonough - Wikipedia

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    His childhood nickname was "Headster", which McDonough says originated in his brothers' teasing him about the size of his head. [4] He graduated from Barnstable High School , and attended Syracuse University , where he was initiated and became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988.

  5. List of tallest people - Wikipedia

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    Coyne's World War I draft registration card, dated 29 August, gave his height as 8 ft (240 cm), although he had reached a height of 8 ft 1.7 in (2.48 m), possibly 8 feet 4 inches (254 cm) by the time of his death. 1897–1921 (23) Brahim Takioullah: Morocco: 246 cm: 8 ft 1 in: Possesses the world's largest feet at 38 cm (1 ft 3 in). [33] [34]

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    3.5 cmwidth of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball [114] 5 cm – usual diameter of a chicken egg; 5 cmheight of a hummingbird, the smallest-known bird; 5.08 cm – 2 inches, 5.5 × 5.5 × 5 ...

  7. Connection Machine - Wikipedia

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    The CM-1 and CM-2 design teams were led by Tamiko Thiel. [10] The physical form of the CM-1, CM-2, and CM-200 chassis was a cube-of-cubes, referencing the machine's internal 12-dimensional hypercube network, with the red light-emitting diodes (LEDs), by default indicating the processor status, visible through the doors of each cube.

  8. Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric - Wikipedia

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    The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric (FLRW; / ˈ f r iː d m ə n l ə ˈ m ɛ t r ə ... / ) is a metric that describes a homogeneous , isotropic , expanding (or otherwise, contracting) universe that is path-connected , but not necessarily simply connected .

  9. Rack unit - Wikipedia

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    Rack with sample component sizes including an A/V half-rack unit. A rack unit (abbreviated U or RU) is a unit of measure defined as 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (44.45 mm). [1] [2] It is most frequently used as a measurement of the overall height of 19-inch and 23-inch rack frames, as well as the height of equipment that mounts in these frames, whereby the height of the frame or equipment is expressed ...