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  2. British Association screw threads - Wikipedia

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    They are unusual in that they were probably the most "scientific" design of screw, starting with 0BA at 6.0 mm diameter and 1.0 mm pitch and progressing in a geometric sequence where each larger number was 0.9 times the pitch of the last size.

  3. Banana connector - Wikipedia

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    Many of these plugs are derived from the "double banana" plug, which consists simply of two banana plugs spaced 3 ⁄ 4 inch (19 mm) apart (measured from center to center of each individual plug). The 3 ⁄ 4 inch spacing originated on General Radio test equipment during the 1920s, and their type 274-M dual-plug is a notable example from that ...

  4. List of motion picture film formats - Wikipedia

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    35 mm 1.33 spherical Biograph: Wm. Dickson & Herman Casler: 1895 Sparring Contest at Canastota: 68 mm 1.35 2.625" × 1.938" 1 perf, 2 sides (punched in-camera) spherical 68 mm spherical Joly-Normandin: Henri Joly: 1895 60 mm 5 perf, 2 sides spherical 60 mm spherical Biographe: Demeny-Gaumont: 1896 60 mm 1.40 1.750" × 1.250" unperforated ...

  5. Zizula hylax - Wikipedia

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    The wingspan of the adults is about 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in). The eggs are pale green, round, and flattened, with a diameter of about 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in).

  6. Phone connector (audio) - Wikipedia

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    There is also an EIA standard for 0.141-inch miniature phone jacks. The 2.5 mm or sub-miniature sizes were similarly popularized on small portable electronics. They often appeared next to a 3.5 mm microphone jack for a remote control on-off switch on early portable tape recorders; the microphone provided with such machines had the on-off switch ...

  7. Vickers .50 machine gun - Wikipedia

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    The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon. The gun was commonly used as a close-in anti-aircraft weapon on Royal Navy and Allied ships, typically in a four-gun mounting (UK) or two-gun mounting (Dutch), as well as tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles.

  8. Termite - Wikipedia

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    The infraorder name Isoptera is derived from the Greek words iso (equal) and ptera (winged), which refers to the nearly equal size of the fore and hind wings. [15] " Termite" derives from the Latin and Late Latin word termes ("woodworm, white ant"), altered by the influence of Latin terere ("to rub, wear, erode") from the earlier word tarmes.

  9. Mount Rushmore - Wikipedia

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    The durable granite erodes only 1 inch (25 mm) every 10,000 years, thus was more than sturdy enough to support the sculpture and its long-term exposure. [31] The mountain's height of 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level [ 8 ] made it suitable, and because it faces the southeast, the workers also had the advantage of sunlight for most of the day.