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Headlamp attached to a helmet. A headlamp, headlight, or head torch is a light source affixed to the head typically for outdoor activities at night or in dark conditions such as caving, orienteering, hiking, skiing, backpacking, camping, mountaineering or mountain biking. Headlamps may also be used in adventure races.
A headlamp is a lamp attached to the front of a vehicle to illuminate the road ahead. Headlamps are also often called headlights, but in the most precise usage, headlamp is the term for the device itself and headlight is the term for the beam of light produced and distributed by the device.
An acetylene gas miner's lamp. A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C 2 H 2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC 2) with water (H 2 O).
The H2O Audio Tri Pro headphones just don't work well for swimming, which means there's little point in bothering with the awkward, time-consuming Playlist+ feature. What you're left with then is ...
Between 1940 and 1956, all U.S. cars had to have two 7-inch (178 mm) round headlamps with dual filaments, so each lamp provided both a high and a low beam light distribution. In 1957, a system of four sealed-beam headlamps—two per side, of 5 + 3 / 4 inches (146 mm) diameter, was allowed in some U.S. states. The following year in 1958, all ...
Notable graduates of Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science include Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, [13] Google executive Eric Schmidt, [13] former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson, former director of the National Transportation Safety Board Christopher A. Hart, MacArthur "genius" grant winner John ...
A von Neumann architecture scheme. The von Neumann architecture—also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture—is a computer architecture based on the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, [1] written by John von Neumann in 1945, describing designs discussed with John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
James Pomerene working on the IAS machine. The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey.It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both Princeton University and IAS.