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  2. Height restriction laws - Wikipedia

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    A skyscraper called Torre Eurosky (Eurosky Tower), built in 2012 in EUR neighbourhood (outside the ban area) exceeds this limit being 155 m (509 ft) high. There is however a height restriction for new onshore wind turbines in the European Union, which set their total height to 200 m (660 ft). [12] [citation needed]

  3. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    The storage limit for ATA-1 compliant disks introduced in 1994. 1.6 × 10 12 bits (200 gigabytes) – capacity of a hard disk that would be considered average as of 2008. In 2005 a 200 GB harddisk cost US$100, [5] equivalent to $156 in 2023. As of April 2015, this is the maximum capacity of a fingernail-sized microSD card.

  4. Height of Buildings Act of 1910 - Wikipedia

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    In response to the construction of the 164-foot (50-meter) Cairo Hotel in 1894, D.C. Commissioners issued height regulations for buildings in D.C., limiting their height to 90 feet (27 m) for residential and 110 feet (34 m) for business, or to the width of the street in front, whichever was smaller. [4]

  5. Doorstop - Wikipedia

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    A doorstop (also door stopper, door stop or door wedge) is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely. The same word is used to refer to a thin slat built inside a door frame to prevent a door from swinging through when closed.

  6. Height of Buildings Act of 1899 - Wikipedia

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    An urban myth holds that the buildings in Washington D.C. are currently, or were at one time, restricted to the height of the U.S. Capitol building. [7] In fact, the 1899 law set the maximum height of any building to 130 feet (39.6 m), [8] the height limit that firefighting equipment could effectively reach at the time, [2] and not the 289 feet (88 m) of the Capitol building.

  7. 1916 Zoning Resolution - Wikipedia

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    The zoning resolution reflected both borough and local interests, and was adopted primarily to stop massive buildings from preventing light and air from reaching the streets below. It also established limits in building massing at certain heights, usually interpreted as a series of setbacks and, while not imposing height limits, restricted ...

  8. Amending the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 - Wikipedia

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    Pub. L. 113–103 (text) (), officially titled To amend the Act entitled An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia to clarify the rules of the District of Columbia regarding human occupancy of penthouses above the top story of the building upon which the penthouse is placed, is a United States Public Law that amends the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 in order to ...

  9. Crash bar - Wikipedia

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    A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.