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2. Hale Telescope - Wikipedia

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   The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f/ 3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, he orchestrated the planning, design, and construction of the observatory, but with the project ending up taking 20 ...

3. Drywall - Wikipedia

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   Lengths up to 16 feet (4.9 m) are common; the most common is 8 feet (2.4 m). Common thicknesses are 1⁄2 and 5⁄8 inch (13 and 16 mm); thicknesses of 1⁄4, 3⁄8, 3⁄4, and 1 inch (6.4, 9.5, 19.1, and 25.4 mm) are used in specific applications. In many parts of Canada, drywall is commonly referred to as Gyproc.

4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

5. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 1 40 8 512 soft 160 kB 300 MFM Commodore 64 (8-bit) 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 1 35 Variable (17-21) ZCAV: 256 soft 170 kB 300 GCR [NB 6] 2 340 kB Quad 1 77 Variable (23-29) ZCAV 521 kB 2 1,042 kB 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Double 2 80 10 512 800 kB MFM Commodore Amiga: 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 2 40 11 512 soft 440 kB [NB 7] 300 MFM [NB 8 ...

6. Lowe's - Wikipedia

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   The first Lowe's store, Mr. L.S. Lowe's North Wilkesboro Hardware, opened in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1921 by Lucius Smith Lowe. [8] After Lowe died in 1940, the business was inherited by his daughter, Ruth Buchan, who sold the company to her brother, James Lowe for $4,200, [ 9 ] that same year.

7. Mount Wilson Observatory - Wikipedia

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   Lord Rosse's Leviathan of Parsonstown, a 72-inch (1.8-meter) telescope built in 1845, was, by the 1890s, out of commission. Although slightly smaller than the Leviathan, the 60-inch had many advantages including a far better site, a glass mirror instead of speculum metal, and a precision mount which could accurately track any direction in the ...