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The "sorter", an independent machine, was a later development. [2] Original census sorting box, 1890, manual. [3] Sorting cards became an issue during the 1900 agricultural census, so Herman Hollerith's company developed the 1901 Hollerith Automatic Horizontal Sorter, [4] a sorter with horizontal pockets. [5]
Impulse is an American science fiction drama television series based on the 2013 Steven Gould novel Impulse.The novel was one of a series following Gould's novel Jumper.The series is a stand-alone spin-off to the 2008 film adaptation of the book.
The cross-belt sorter operates in several stages: Induction: Items are fed typically at an angle of 30˚ or 45˚ onto the moving sorter through a series of conveyors that accelerate the item to the sorter speed. The cross-belt then activates and the item is inducted to the sorter cell at null relative speed.
These "hook guns" were in their earliest forms defensive weapons mounted on German city walls in the early 15th century. [2] The addition of a shoulder stock, priming pan, [ 3 ] and matchlock mechanism in the late 15th century turned the arquebus into a handheld firearm and also the first firearm equipped with a trigger.
Before the age of containerization, freight was moved on and off ships with extensive manual labor, and the longshoreman's hook was the basic tool of the dockworker. The hook became an emblem of the longshoreman's profession in the same way that a hammer and anvil are associated with blacksmiths , or the pipe wrench with pipefitters ...
The Fulton system in use The Fulton system in use from below. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (STARS), also known as Skyhook, is a system used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States Air Force, and United States Navy for retrieving individuals on the ground using aircraft such as the MC-130E Combat Talon I and B-17 Flying Fortress.
The IBM 1255 is a MICR reader/sorter. The IBM 1270 is an OCR reader/sorter that uses the same sorter engine as the IBM 1255 but with more processing hardware. The CMC-7 models of the IBM 1255 as well as the IBM 1270 were not offered for sale in the United States. [22] [23] The input hopper holds a 5-1/2" stack of documents that uses a gravity feed.
Kent Benson attempting a hook shot for the Indiana Hoosiers in 1977 Richard Mason Rocca attempting a hook shot for Eldo Napoli in 2006. In basketball, a hook shot is a play where the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball using a sweeping motion of the arm farther from the basket in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.