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  2. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  3. Jesse Besser - Wikipedia

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    Jesse Besser (1882–1970) was an inventor and manufacturer from Alpena in the U.S. state of Michigan.He is best known for inventing, and supervising a series of improvements to, a tamping machine used to rapidly press wet, flexible concrete into blocks, thereby making possible a new generation of applications in masonry construction.

  4. List of heavy mortars - Wikipedia

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    Mortier de 58 mm type 2 "Crapouillot" [2] France: World War I: 90 [3] 20 cm leLdgW Nazi Germany: World War II: 91.5: 9.15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz German Empire: World War I 105: 10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M15 Austria-Hungary: World War I 105: 10 cm Nebelwerfer 35 Nazi Germany: World War II: 106.7: Ordnance ML 4.2 inch Mortar United ...

  5. Gauge block - Wikipedia

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    By using three blocks at a time taken from a set of 30 blocks, one may create any of the 1000 lengths from 3.000 to 3.999 mm in 0.001 mm steps (or .3000 to .3999 inches in 0.0001 inch steps). Description

  6. Springfield model 1870 - Wikipedia

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    The "Hickok rifle" has a 29.625-inch (75.25 cm) barrel, which is longer than the carbine version's barrel and shorter than the rifle version's barrel, and also has a Kentucky rifle style sloped butt. The trapdoor mechanism is stamped with the year 1870, and the lockplate is stamped with the year 1863, indicating that this rifle was originally ...

  7. 20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun - Wikipedia

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    These were built-up guns with an inner A tube, encased by a second tube, encased by a full length jacket. Early guns were partially wire-wound, but later guns dispensed with the wire winding. The guns were breech loaded with two cloth bags of smokeless powder. [2] Third year type refers to the Welin breech block on this gun.

  8. 8-inch/55-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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    These self-loading guns with lined monobloc construction and vertical sliding breech blocks weighed about 20 tons. Semi-fixed ammunition (projectile and powder case handled separately) with 78 pounds (35 kg) of smokeless powder gave a 335-pound (152 kg) projectile a velocity of 2500 feet per second (760 m/s). [ 1 ]

  9. Rodenstock Imagon - Wikipedia

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    The Imagon equivalent to aperture size is determined by the interplay between the imagon lens central opening and the modifiable arrangement of smaller openings on the diffusion disc. These taken together produce an " H-stop " designation which approximates the corresponding f-stop of a normal lens.