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The nozzle and flapper mechanism is a displacement type detector which converts mechanical movement into a pressure signal by covering the opening of a nozzle with a flat plate called the flapper. [1] This restricts fluid flow through the nozzle and generates a pressure signal.
Korky the Cat is a character in a comic strip in the British comics magazine The Dandy. It first appeared in issue 1, dated 4 December 1937, except for one issue, No. 294 (9 June 1945) when Keyhole Kate was on the cover.
Though the flapper is much associated with that decade, such a limitation is not just misleading but inaccurate. For style's sake, I again also alter the passive “what was then considered acceptable behavior” to “prevailing codes of decent behavior,” "prevailing" obviously indicating those prevailing at the time and “decent ...
He was the artist of The Dandy cover strip Korky the Cat. He also drew Desperate Dan after the original artist, Dudley Watkins, died. In The Topper comic he drew Splodge, Willy Nilly, Foxy and Shorty Shambles. [1] Completely self-taught as an artist, Grigg grew up in Langley, Oldbury, West Midlands, in the Black Country. [2]
Corky Cornelius (1914–1943), American jazz trumpeter; Corky Hale (born 1936), American jazz musician; Corky James (born 1954), American guitarist and bassist; Corky Jones, pseudonym used by Buck Owens (1929–2006) for his rockabilly music
Hamish Vigne Christie "Korky" Paul (born 1951) is a British illustrator of children's books. He was born and raised in Rhodesia , but now lives in Oxford , England. His work, characteristically executed with bright watercolour paint and pen and ink, is recognisable by an anarchic yet detailed style and for its "wild characterisation".
A flapper was a trendy young woman in the 1920s. Flapper may also refer to: Flapper (company), a Brazilian transportation network company for aviation; The Flapper, a 1920 American film directed by Alan Crosland; Flapper valve, a part of some flush toilet mechanisms; Flappers, a Canadian sitcom produced by the CBC in the late 1970s
Articles relating to flappers and their depictions, a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.