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  2. Tribrach (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    A tribrach is an attachment plate used to attach a surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a tripod. A tribrach allows the survey instrument to be repeatedly placed in the same position over a surveying marker point with sub- millimetre precision , by loosening and re-tightening a lock to adjust ...

  3. Panoramic tripod head - Wikipedia

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    One must use the mount to adjust for the difference between the tripod mount and the focal point of the camera. This is accomplished by sliders on the mount. A panoramic tripod head is a piece of photographic equipment, mounted to a tripod , which allows photographers to shoot a sequence of images around the entrance pupil of a lens that can be ...

  4. Tripod head - Wikipedia

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    Most camera equipment includes a built-in female 1/4-20 receptacle, so the majority of tripod heads utilize a male 1/4-20 screw as their head mounts. Many consumer level tripod heads use the bare head mount to attach the camera, but higher end models often include a camera mounting system that is pre-attached to the head mount.

  5. Television antenna - Wikipedia

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    Antennas are commonly placed on rooftops and sometimes in attics. Placing an antenna indoors significantly attenuates the level of the available signal. [19] [20] Directional antennas must be pointed at the transmitter they are receiving; in most cases great accuracy is not needed. In a given region, it is sometimes arranged that all television ...

  6. Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant

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    The Tarheel Army Missile Plant was constructed in 1927 as a synthetic fabric rayon manufacturing plant for the A.M. Johnson Rayon Mills, Inc. The company failed in marketing their rayon product to the textile weaving plants in the Burlington vicinity. As a result, the plant was renamed the Carolina Rayon Mills, Inc and a new management was ...

  7. Tethered Aerostat Radar System - Wikipedia

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    Tethered Aerostat Radar System in New Mexico. The first aerostats were assigned to the United States Air Force in December 1980 at Cudjoe Key, Florida.During the 1980s, the U.S. Customs Service operated a network of aerostats to help counter illegal drug trafficking.

  8. Polar mount - Wikipedia

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    A polar mount is a movable mount for satellite dishes that allows the dish to be pointed at many geostationary satellites by slewing around one axis. [1] It works by having its slewing axis parallel, or almost parallel, to the Earth's polar axis so that the attached dish can follow, approximately, the geostationary orbit, which lies in the plane of the Earth's equator.

  9. Tripod - Wikipedia

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    A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The three-legged (triangular stance) design provides good stability against gravitational loads as well as horizontal shear forces , and better leverage for resisting tipping over due to lateral ...