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The advantage of "motor" type clippers is that they provide a positive power stroke in both directions of cutting (as the blade moves back and forth); The other type of clipper motor is the "vibrator type" clipper which, instead of having a rotating armetured motor, has a magnetic vibrating strip that pulls the blade to one side, and, as the AC ...
A manual beard clipper A hair clipper , often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors ), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair . Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors , but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors .
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Free Composition (Der freie Satz) is a treatise by Heinrich Schenker, and possibly Schenker's best known work. The third volume of New Musical Theories and Fantasies (preceded by Harmony and Counterpoint ), it was first published posthumously by Universal Edition in Vienna in 1935.
Golden West was an 1852 extreme clipper built by Paul Curtis. The ship had a very active career in the California trade, the guano trade, the coolie trade, the Far East , and Australia . She made a record passage between Japan and San Francisco in 1856.
The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate.
In addition to the standard clipper library, a library named "Clipper Tools" was developed by CA after purchasing Nantucket. Three versions of this library were released, alongside Clipper versions. This library became a de facto standard amongst Clipper clones, such as xHarbour. It was also cloned by several of Clipper's clones.
Golden Fleece was an 1855 medium clipper in the California trade, built by Paul Curtis. She was known for arriving with cargoes in good condition, for making passages in consistently good time, and for catching fire with a load of ice .