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2. William Painter (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Inventor, engineer. Spouse. Harriet Deacon Painter (m. 1861) Parent (s) Dr. Edward Painter. Louisa Gilpin Painter. William Painter (November 20, 1838 – July 15, 1906) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener .

3. Magnetic mirror - Wikipedia

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   A magnetic mirror, also known as a magnetic trap or sometimes as a pyrotron, is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields. The mirror was one of the earliest major approaches to fusion power, along with the stellarator and z-pinch machines.

4. Bottle opener - Wikipedia

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   Bottle opener. A bottle opener is a device that enables the removal of metal bottle caps from glass bottles. More generally, it might be thought to include corkscrews used to remove cork or plastic stoppers from wine bottles . A metal bottle cap is affixed to the rim of the neck of a bottle by being pleated or ruffled around the rim.

5. Sabrage - Wikipedia

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   Sabrage / səˈbrɑːʒ / is a technique for opening a champagne bottle with a saber, [ 1] used for ceremonial occasions. The wielder slides the saber along the body seam of the bottle to the lip to break the top of the neck away, leaving the neck of the bottle open and ready to pour. The force of the blade hitting the lip breaks the glass to ...

6. Leyden jar - Wikipedia

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   Leyden jar. A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar, or archaically, Kleistian jar) is an electrical component that stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, and ...

7. I Literally Signed Up to Run a Marathon to Get My Hands on ...

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   It wasn't easy trying to squeeze in time to train so essentially, I said "Forget running a marathon, let's scale down." Next thing I knew, I was signed up to run my first 12K at Big Sur and thanks ...