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She was launched in 1964 by Trogir shipyards. Commissioned in 1965 with the hull number 911 or sometimes also referred to as AO-911. Sorong made history because she was part of the Combat Team for an amphibious landing operation to seize the city of Dili in East Timor on 6 December 1975, part of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor from 1975 to 1976.
Sorong fault also (Sorong Fault Zone, SFZ) is an active, broad zone of inferred left lateral shear at the triple junction of the Australian plate, Eurasian plate, and Pacific plate, where many plate fragments exist, such as the Philippine Sea plate, Bird's Head plate, Halmahera plate and the Molucca Sea plate.
Gascoigne's Micrometer, as drawn by Robert Hooke, c. 1668. The word micrometer is a neoclassical coinage from Greek: μικρός, romanized: micros, lit. 'small' and ...
Caliper is the American spelling, while calliper (double "L") is the British spelling.. A single tool might be referred to as a caliper or as calipers — a plural only (plurale tantum) form, like scissors or glasses.
A lathe of 1871, equipped with leadscrew and change gears for single-point screw-cutting A Brown & Sharpe single-spindle screw machine. Fasteners had become widespread involving concepts such as dowels and pins, wedging, mortises and tenons, dovetails, nailing (with or without clenching the nail ends), forge welding, and many kinds of binding with cord made of leather or fiber, using many ...
To borrow a golf term, Sunday of the NFL’s Week 16 could be called a “moving day” as teams jockey for playoff spots and seeding.. After a Thursday night game and a Saturday double-header ...
Screw thread, used to convert torque into the linear force in the flood gate.The operator rotates the small vertical bevel gear in the center. Through mechanical advantage this causes the horizontal bevel gears (at far left and far right, with threaded center holes) to rotate.
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