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A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind . It is a predecessor to the more complex whirligigs .
A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by using a side lever which could expose anywhere from 0 to 9 teeth, and therefore when coupled to a ...
Odhner thought of his machine in 1871 while repairing a Thomas' Arithmometer (which was the only mechanical calculator in production at the time) and decided to replace its heavy, bulky Leibniz cylinder by a lighter, smaller pinwheel disk. This is why the two machines share the same name but look completely different.
We love getting advice from grandma, but some of her cleaning tricks may be outdated. We asked a cleaning pro to share the top tips to ditch once and for all.
Ford Motor Co. is reassigning some workers who build the Bronco SUV at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne to nearby plants. The Dearborn-based automaker confirmed Wednesday that about 400 ...
By Raphael Satter. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official who is among those working to evict alleged Chinese hackers from American telecom companies has a word of advice for his fellow ...
A pinwheel tiling: tiles can be grouped in sets of five (thick lines) to form a new pinwheel tiling (up to rescaling) The pinwheel tiling is obtained by repeatedly inflating by a factor of and then subdividing each tile in this manner. Conversely, the tiles of the pinwheel tiling can be grouped into groups of five that form a larger pinwheel ...
The Chicago Bears have finally made a change after this weekend's awful 19-3 loss to the New England Patriots. The Bears announced Tuesday morning that offensive coordinator Shane Waldron is out ...