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  2. Fishing reel - Wikipedia

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    Automatic fly reels peaked in popularity during the 1960s, and since that time they have been outsold many times over by manual fly reels. Modern fly reels typically have more sophisticated disc-type drag systems made of composite materials that feature increased adjustment range, consistency, and resistance to high temperatures from drag friction.

  3. Pflueger (fishing) - Wikipedia

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    Pflueger is a brand of fishing tackle products and a subsidiary of Pure Fishing. In 1880, Ernest A. Pflueger started the Enterprise Manufacturing Company in Akron, Ohio to make fishing tackle. [ 1 ]

  4. Edward vom Hofe - Wikipedia

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    The salmon-size versions of these reels followed soon afterwards. The first of these trout reels, the #355, a reel with a two-tone clicker mechanism system, that can be activated as additional drag force, with a patent date of 1883, was joined around 1896 by the model #360, equipped with an "adjustable, automatic silent tension drag" system.

  5. The Clitoris' Vanishing Act - The Huffington Post

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.

  6. Fly fishing tackle - Wikipedia

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    Fly reels - a specialized type of fishing reel designed to hold fly line and supply drag if required to land heavy or fast fish. Fly line - a specialized weighted fishing line that is designed to allow easy casting with a fly rod and interact with the water by either floating or sinking; Terminal tackle used to connect the fly line to the ...

  7. Fly-by-wire - Wikipedia

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    The Airbus A320 family was the first airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.

  8. Pflüger - Wikipedia

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    Spelling variations of this family name include: Pfluger, Pflueger, Fluger, Pleumann, and Plemmons, among others. Notable people with the surname include: August Pfluger (born 1978), American military officer and politician; Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910), German physiologist; Friedbert Pflüger (born 1955), German politician

  9. Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Hanau on 7 June 1829.. After initially studying law at Berlin University, he transferred to study medicine, [1] also doing further study at the University of Marburg, earning his doctorate in 1853.