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  2. The Bicycle Wheel - Wikipedia

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    Part one, "Theory of the Spoked Wheel", examines how a wire wheel supports various loads, what causes wheel failure, what aspects of a wheel confer strength and durability, discusses each of the individual components that make up a spoked wheel, and examines wheel design. Part two, "Building and Repairing Wheels", explains how to select ...

  3. Melbourne Star - Wikipedia

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    The wheel first opened to the public on 20 December 2008, [3] two years behind schedule. [16] Its ceremony, scheduled for 28 November 2008, [17] was cancelled due to bad weather and delays in procuring parts. [3] It had cost an estimated $100 million to construct

  4. Gear - Wikipedia

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    Cage gear in Pantigo Windmill, Long Island (with the driving gearwheel disengaged) A cage gear, also called a lantern gear or lantern pinion is one of those artisanal has cylindrical rods for teeth, parallel to the axle and arranged in a circle around it, much as the bars on a round bird cage or lantern. The assembly is held together by disks ...

  5. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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    Michigan's ban of battery cages and the sale of non-cage-free eggs in the state, adopted in November 2019, will enter into force at the end of 2024. [ 38 ] The passage of California Proposition 2 in 2008 aimed, in part, to reduce or eliminate the problems associated with battery cages, by setting the standard for space relative to free movement ...

  6. Hamster wheel - Wikipedia

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    A hamster wheel or running wheel is an exercise device used primarily by hamsters and other rodents, but also by other cursorial animals when given the opportunity. Most of these devices consist of a runged or ridged wheel held on a stand by a single or pair of stub axles. Hamster wheels allow rodents to run even when their space is confined.

  7. Chinchilla (language model) - Wikipedia

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    Similar to Gopher in terms of cost, Chinchilla has 70B parameters and four times as much data. [3] Chinchilla has an average accuracy of 67.5% on the Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark, which is 7% higher than Gopher's performance. Chinchilla was still in the testing phase as of January 12, 2023. [4]

  8. Chinchilla (singer) - Wikipedia

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    When speaking about the track's music video, Chinchilla stated "I wanted to make something inclusive without being corny or cliché. Something about elderly/older women makes me think of diamonds." [ 6 ] Her third extended play Flytrap was announced in May 2024, and subsequently released in June that year.

  9. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    the great wheel also known as walking wheel or wool wheel for rapid long draw spinning of woolen-spun yarns; the flax wheel, which is a double-drive wheel used with a distaff for spinning flax fibres for making linen; saxony and upright wheels, all-purpose treadle driven wheels used to spin both woolen and worsted-spun yarns; and; the charkha ...