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The Fuller calculator, sometimes called Fuller's cylindrical slide rule, is a cylindrical slide rule with a helical main scale taking 50 turns around the cylinder. This creates an instrument of considerable precision – it is equivalent to a traditional slide rule 25.40 metres (1,000 inches) long.
Carl Orff (1895–1982), a German composer, known for his teaching method, the Orff Schulwerk Orff Schulwerk encompasses the Orff instruments and teaching methods for children; The Orff, a fictional alien species in K. A. Applegate's young adult book series, Animorphs; Gertrud Orff (1914–2000), one of the first German music therapists
A selection of instruments used in the Orff music education method. Carl Orff was a prominent German composer. Orff Schulwerk is considered an "approach" to music education. It begins with a student's innate abilities to engage in rudimentary forms of music, using basic rhythms and melodies.
The departure clearance may contain an assigned heading, one or more waypoints, and an initial altitude to fly. The clearance can also specify a departure procedure (DP) or standard instrument departure (SID) that should be followed unless "NO DP" is specified in the notes section of the filed flight plan. [citation needed]
The Orff Approach of music education uses very rudimentary forms of everyday activity for the purpose of music creation by music students. The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music by a gentle and ...
Engineering tolerance, a physical distance or space between two components . Hydraulic clearance, in hydraulic systems; Clearance in civil engineering, including: . The difference between the loading gauge and the structure gauge: the amount of space between the top of a rail car and the top of a tunnel or the bottom of a rail car and the top of rail
A partially disassembled Curta calculator, showing the digit slides and the stepped drum behind them Curta Type I calculator, top view Curta Type I calculator, bottom view. The Curta is a hand-held mechanical calculator designed by Curt Herzstark. [1] It is known for its extremely compact design: a small cylinder that fits in the palm of the hand.