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  2. Metal detector - Wikipedia

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    Charles Garrett, the founder of Garrett Metal Detectors, was another key figure in the creation of today's metal detectors. Garrett, an electrical engineer by profession, began metal detecting as a pastime in the early 1960s. He tried a number of machines on the market but couldn't find one that could do what he needed.

  3. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    Optical pointing sticks are also used on some Ultrabook tablet hybrids, such as the Sony Duo 11, ThinkPad Tablet and Samsung Ativ Q. On the Gateway 2000 Liberty laptop the pointing stick is above the enter key on the right side of the keyboard. A pointing stick was featured in the New Nintendo 3DS as a secondary analog stick, known as the C-Stick.

  4. Garrett Motion - Wikipedia

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    Garrett Motion Inc., formerly Honeywell Transportation Systems and Honeywell Turbo Technologies, is an American company primarily involved in engineering, development and manufacturing of turbochargers and related forced induction systems for ground vehicles from small passenger cars to large trucks and industrial equipment and construction ...

  5. Garrett Morris - Wikipedia

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    Garrett Isaac Morris [2] [3] (born February 1, 1937) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He was part of the original cast and was the first black cast member of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live , appearing from 1975 to 1980.

  6. Galvanometer - Wikipedia

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    A beam of light reflected from the mirror falls on a graduated scale across the room, acting as a long mass-less pointer. The mirror galvanometer was used as the receiver in the first trans-Atlantic submarine telegraph cables in the 1850s, to detect the extremely faint pulses of current after their thousand-mile journey under the Atlantic.

  7. Mechanically powered flashlight - Wikipedia

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    This, along with the long-life light-emitting diode which does not burn out like an incandescent bulb, give the flashlight a long lifetime, making it a useful emergency light. A disadvantage of many current models is that the supercapacitor cannot store much energy in comparison to a lithium-ion cell, limiting the operating time per charge.

  8. Pogo pin - Wikipedia

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    Variety of loose pogo pins and pogo pins in 3-pin assembly holders and with Pick and Place caps Sectional drawing of a pogo pin, showing the plunger, barrel, and spring. A pogo pin or spring-loaded pin is a type of electrical connector mechanism with spring plungers that is used in many modern electronic applications and in the electronics testing industry. [1]

  9. Bi-pin lamp base - Wikipedia

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    The suffix after the G indicates the pin spread; the G dates to the use of Glass for the original bulbs. GU usually also indicates that the lamp provides a mechanism for physical support by the luminaire: in some cases, each pin has a short section of larger diameter at the end (sometimes described as a "peg" rather than a "pin" [2]); the socket allows the bulb to lock into place by twisting ...