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A Wartenberg wheel, also called a Wartenberg pinwheel or Wartenberg neurowheel, is a medical device for neurological use. The wheel was designed to test nerve reactions (sensitivity) as it rolled systematically across the skin. [1] A Wartenberg wheel is generally made of stainless steel with a handle of approximately 18 centimetres (7 in) in ...
A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by using a side lever which could expose anywhere from 0 to 9 teeth, and therefore when coupled to a ...
Whirligig store. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. It can also be a pinwheel, spinning top, buzzer, comic weathervane, gee-haw, spinner, whirlygig, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or simply a whirly.
An Australian man is accused of murdering his wife with a homemade spear. Talaat Hawatt, also known as Terrance Howot, is accused of having attacked his wife Khouloud Bakour Hawatt with the weapon ...
Colin 'Smiley' Petersen, best known as the original dummer of Bee Gees, has died. He was 78. The Best of the Bee Gees Facebook page announced his death on Monday, Nov. 18. The page did not ...
Police in Willingboro Township found Kim Beacham-Hanson, 57, dead from multiple blunt injuries allegedly delivered by her daughter, 32-year-old Breanna Beacham.
A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind . It is a predecessor to the more complex whirligigs .
Jinkins was also an actor on the old Nickelodeon series Pinwheel and Hocus Focus, and a graphic designer on By the Way and Video Comics. After his first tenure with Nickelodeon, he went to work for Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), becoming the graphics director for their show Square One Television.