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  2. Cable cars and funiculars in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 Above image zoomed out, Los Angeles, c. 1893–1895 The Women's Christian Temperance Union building, also known as Temperance Temple, at Temple and Fort (now Broadway) streets, with a Temple Street Cable Railway car, 1890. Cable car street railways first ...

  3. Short-range device - Wikipedia

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    Applications for short-range wireless devices include power meters and other remote instrumentation, RFID applications, radio-controlled models, fire, security and social alarms, vehicle radars, wireless microphones and earphones, traffic signs and signals (including control signals), remote garage door openers and car keys, barcode readers ...

  4. Cable transport - Wikipedia

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    On Wednesday 25 July 2012, passengers of the London cable car were stuck 90 meters in the air when a power failure caused the gondola to stop over the River Thames. The fault happened at 11:45 am and lasted for about 30 minutes. No passengers were injured, but this was the first problem to ever hit the London's new cable car link. [44] [45]

  5. Lawn mower racing - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, Craftsmen was declared the most-used lawnmower brand in New Mexico. Craftsmen had reported 290 racers using this brand in the 127 races in New Mexico that year. Later in 2015 new rules were imposed on the lawn mower racing system In New Mexico preventing lawn mower racing from occurring in populated locations.

  6. HVDC converter station - Wikipedia

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    A single-phase, three-winding converter transformer. The converter transformers step up the voltage of the AC supply network. Using a star-to-delta or "wye-delta" connection of the transformer windings, the converter can operate with 12 pulses for each cycle in the AC supply, which eliminates numerous harmonic current components. The insulation ...

  7. Andrew Smith Hallidie - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Smith Hallidie (March 16, 1836 – April 24, 1900) was an American entrepreneur who was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system, although both claims are open to dispute.

  8. Low-noise block downconverter - Wikipedia

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    Also called a low-noise block, [1] [2] low-noise converter (LNC), or even low-noise downconverter (LND), [3] the device is sometimes inaccurately called a low-noise amplifier (LNA). [ 4 ] The LNB is a combination of low-noise amplifier, frequency mixer , local oscillator and intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier.

  9. Tateyama Cable Car - Wikipedia

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    The Tateyama Cable Car (立山ケーブルカー) is a Japanese funicular line of Tateyama Kurobe Kankō (立山黒部貫光) in Tateyama, Toyama, with its official name Cable Line (鋼索線, Kōsaku-sen). The company also operates another funicular, Kurobe Cable Car with the same official name.