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Interest in dead man's controls increased with the introduction of electric trams (streetcars in North America) and especially electrified rapid transit trains. The first widespread use came with the introduction of the mass-produced Birney One-Man Safety (tram) Car, though dead-man equipment was fairly rare on US streetcars until the successful PCC streetcar, which had a left-foot-operated ...
A dead man's switch is a device used as a fail-safe. Dead man's switch may also refer to: Dead Man's Switch (audio drama), based on the British television series Doctor Who "Dead Man's Switch" (The Outer Limits), an episode of The Outer Limits "Deadman Switch", an episode of Stargate SG-1; Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery, 2021 Canadian ...
A popular high school cheerleader finds herself in a man's body. Earrings [8] [24] I Are You, You Am Me: Japan Nobuhiko Obayashi: 1982 Teenage boy and girl Fall down staircase [72] Identity Theft: United States: James A. Ward: 2009: A male lottery winner ends up swapping bodies with a beautiful female model who is in deep debt and is wanted by ...
TV Tropes was founded in 2004 by a programmer under the pseudonym "Fast Eddie." He described himself as having become interested in the conventions of genre fiction while studying at MIT in the 1970s and after browsing Internet forums in the 1990s. [17]
Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield, or simply Benny, is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures.
This system (SWESS), also known informally as the dead man's switch, was a nuclear bomb release system that the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command built into bombers such as the B-52 Stratofortress.
In 2016, he began working on Deadswitch, a cloud-based dead man’s switch intended to provide an immutable data insurance service for individuals at risk. [4] In 2018, he supported a collaborative investigation into former Saudi Arabian royal court advisor Saud al-Qahtani and his involvement with HackingTeam and the murder of journalist Jamal ...
Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sheona McDonald and released in 2021. [1] The film is a portrait of the controversy around Gerald Cotten, the Canadian cryptocurrency entrepreneur whose disappearance and alleged death in December 2018 left many investors unable to access their money because Cotten was the only person who knew the password to the ...