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  2. British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88 - Wikipedia

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    The British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88 is a medium-size hovercraft.In a civil configuration, the hovercraft can seat a maximum of 101 passengers, while as a troop carrier, it can transport up to 90 troops.

  3. Dodge T-, V-, W-Series - Wikipedia

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    From October 1944 through March 1946, Dodge built 15,000 trucks, that used a special-order combination of its heaviest-duty off-the-shelf components, to overland supplies from India to China over the very rough Ledo Road (later renamed after Joseph Stilwell), to an extent to specifications personally drawn up by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ...

  4. ENIAC - Wikipedia

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    Engineers reduced ENIAC's tube failures to the more acceptable rate of one tube every two days. According to an interview in 1989 with Eckert, "We had a tube fail about every two days and we could locate the problem within 15 minutes." [36] In 1954, the longest continuous period of operation without a failure was 116 hours—close to five days.

  5. List of metro systems - Wikipedia

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    From top to bottom: Shanghai Metro is the metro system with the longest metro network and the highest annual ridership in the world. Beijing Subway has the most subway stations in the world.

  6. Tiger I - Wikipedia

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    Specifications (RfRuK VK 4501H Ausf.E, Blatt: G-330) ... wide. To meet rail-freight size restrictions, narrower 520 mm (20 in) wide ... Toggle the table of contents.

  7. Compact fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    This was the first successful screw-in replacement for an incandescent lamp, using new rare earth aluminum lattice phosphors to solve the problem of lumen depreciation that would normally occur quickly in such a thin tube; however, it was not widely adopted, because of its large size, weight (over half a kilogram), pronounced 50 Hz flicker and ...

  8. Niobium - Wikipedia

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    Niobium is a lustrous, grey, ductile, paramagnetic metal in group 5 of the periodic table (see table), with an electron configuration in the outermost shells atypical for group 5. Similarly atypical configurations occur in the neighborhood of ruthenium (44) and rhodium (45).

  9. Construction - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. Process of building or assembling a building or infrastructure For other uses, see Construction (disambiguation). "Construction site" redirects here. Not to be confused with Construction Site (TV series). Construction site and equipment prepared for start of work in Cologne, Germany ...