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  2. John Knoll - Wikipedia

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    John Knoll (born October 6, 1962) is an American visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). [1] One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas Knoll), he has also worked as visual effects supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.

  3. Hygrometer - Wikipedia

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    A hygrometer is an instrument which measures the humidity of air or some other gas: that is, how much of it is water vapor. [1] Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantities, such as temperature, pressure, mass, and mechanical or electrical changes in a substance as moisture is absorbed.

  4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding.. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book.

  5. Meteorological instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    A hygrometer measures the relative humidity at a location, which can then be used to compute the dew point. Radiosondes directly measure most of these quantities, except for wind, which is determined by tracking the radiosonde signal with an antenna or theodolite.

  6. Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia

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    Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll.It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb (e.g. "to photoshop an image", "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") [7] although Adobe disapproves of ...

  7. Weather friar - Wikipedia

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    The hygrometer, made of cardboard, shows a figure consisting of a friar of the Capuchin Order [3] with an open book in his right hand and the left arm and the hood of the habit mobile thanks to balanced axes; In this arm he carries a bar thanks to which he indicates the weather approximately 24 hours in advance on various signs arranged from top to bottom on a column while he moves his hood to ...

  8. Dust jacket - Wikipedia

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    The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers ; these flaps may also double as bookmarks .

  9. John Warnock - Wikipedia

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    Warnock was born on October 6, 1940, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. [3] He failed mathematics in ninth grade before graduating from Olympus High School in 1958; [4] however, Warnock went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and philosophy, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering (computer science), and an honorary degree in science, all from the ...