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  2. Process duct work - Wikipedia

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    Process duct work may be round or rectangular. Although round duct work costs more to fabricate than rectangular duct work, it requires fewer stiffeners and is favored in many applications over rectangular ductwork. The air in process duct work may be at ambient conditions or may operate at up to 900 °F (482 °C).

  3. Bell mouth - Wikipedia

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    The bell-mouth shape allows the maximum amount of air to be drawn into the duct with minimum loss. Cosworth Formula One engine, with bell-mouthed inlet trumpets for each cylinder, known as a velocity stack. A bell-mouth inlet duct is a form of convergent inlet air duct used to direct air into the inlet of a gas turbine engine.

  4. Monroe Systems for Business - Wikipedia

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    Monroe Systems for Business is a provider of electric calculators, printers, and office accessories such as paper shredders to business clients. [1] Originally known as the Monroe Calculating Machine Company, it was founded in 1912 by Jay Randolph Monroe as a maker of adding machines and calculators based on a machine designed by Frank Stephen Baldwin.

  5. Marchant Calculating Machine Company - Wikipedia

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    Marchant XLA calculator, based on Friden's design. The Marchant Calculating Machine Company was founded in 1911 by Rodney and Alfred Marchant in Oakland, California.. The company built mechanical, and then electromechanical calculators which had a reputation for reliability.

  6. Curta - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Turning vanes (HVAC) - Wikipedia

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    HVAC turning vanes are sheet metal devices inside of mechanical ductwork used to smoothly direct air inside a duct where there is a change in direction, by reducing resistance and turbulence. See also

  8. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    For forty years the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator available for sale until the industrial production of the more successful Odhner Arithmometer in 1890. [7] The comptometer, introduced in 1887, was the first machine to use a keyboard that consisted of columns of nine keys (from 1 to 9) for each digit.

  9. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    However, there were problems with this display and the calculator never went on sale. The first successful calculators with LCDs were manufactured by Rockwell International and sold from 1972 by other companies under such names as: Dataking LC-800, Harden DT/12, Ibico 086, Lloyds 40, Lloyds 100, Prismatic 500 (a.k.a. P500), Rapid Data Rapidman ...