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  2. WAGO GmbH - Wikipedia

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    WAGO GmbH & Co. KG (formerly WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH (under Swiss law) & Co. KG) [20] is responsible for the operating business of the group, with all its subsidiaries. WAGO is owned by the Hohorst family. [11] The headquarters of the WAGO Group is located in Minden. The firm's German production sites are in Minden and Sondershausen.

  3. Punch-down block - Wikipedia

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    A punch-down block (also punchdown block, punch block, punchblock, quick-connect block and other variations) is a type of electrical connection often used in telephony. It is named because the solid copper wires are "punched down" into short open-ended slots which are a type of insulation-displacement connector .

  4. Junction box - Wikipedia

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    A small metal, plastic or fiberglass junction box may form part of an electrical conduit or thermoplastic-sheathed cable (TPS) wiring system in a building. If designed for surface mounting, it is used mostly in ceilings, concrete or concealed behind an access panel—particularly in domestic or commercial buildings [2].

  5. Serving area interface - Wikipedia

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    The SAI provides the termination of individual twisted pairs of a telephony local loop for onward connection back to the nearest telephone exchange (US: "central office" (CO)) or remote switch, or first to transmission equipment such as a subscriber loop carrier multiplexer and then to the exchange main distribution frame (MDF).

  6. Twistlock - Wikipedia

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    The female part of the connector is the 7×7× 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (180×180×110 mm) corner casting, which forms each of the eight corners, welded to the container itself, and has no moving parts, only an oval hole in the tops of the four upper corners, and in the bottom of the four lower corners. The hole is an oval 4.9 in (124.5 mm) on the long ...

  7. Wagon Box Fight - Wikipedia

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    The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and six civilians were attacked by several hundred Lakota Sioux warriors.

  8. Bayonet mount - Wikipedia

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    A bayonet mount A bayonet mount before and after insertion Early-19th century socket bayonet Socket of a bayonet. A bayonet mount (mainly as a method of mechanical attachment, such as fitting a lens to a camera using a matching lens mount) or bayonet connector (for electrical use) is a fastening mechanism consisting of a cylindrical male side with one or more radial pegs, and a female receptor ...

  9. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    A plan and side view of a generic, empty canal lock. A lock chamber separated from the rest of the canal by an upper pair and a lower pair of mitre gates.The gates in each pair close against each other at an 18° angle to approximate an arch against the water pressure on the "upstream" side of the gates when the water level on the "downstream" side is lower.