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  2. Ernest M. Skinner - Wikipedia

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    Skinner was one of the first organ builders to try establishing a systematic method for providing fixed dimensions in his organ consoles.Before this, each organ builder might have used different dimensions on their consoles, causing problems with users adapting to different layouts and positions of keyboards and pedalboards of different instruments, even those made by the same builder.

  3. Uniflow steam engine - Wikipedia

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    The Casablanca-class escort carrier, the most prolific aircraft carrier design in history, used two 5-cylinder Skinner Unaflow engines, but these were not steeple compounds. A non-compound Skinner Uniflow remained in service until 2013 in the Great Lakes cement carrier SS St. Marys Challenger, installed when the vessel was re-powered in 1950 ...

  4. Piston valve (steam engine) - Wikipedia

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    This entails controlling the admission and exhaust of steam to and from the cylinders with a valve linked to the motion of the piston. [3] For timing and dimensioning of slide or piston valves where the valve opens and closes the steam and exhaust ports, a consideration of the "lap" and "lead" is required.

  5. Aeolian-Skinner - Wikipedia

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    The Skinner & Cole Company was formed in 1902 as a partnership of Ernest Skinner and Cole, another former Hutchings-Votey employee. By 1904 the partnership had dissolved, and the "Ernest M. Skinner & Company" purchased the Skinner and Cole assets, in the form of the contract for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City [1] from the former company for $1.

  6. His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: Insulin

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    Police believed William Dale Archerd killed three of his wives, two men, and his 15-year-old nephew. From left, top, are William Edward Jones Jr., Zella Winders Archerd and Juanita Plum Archerd.

  7. Valve gear - Wikipedia

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    Deeley valve gear - fitted to several express locomotives on the Midland Railway. The combination levers were driven, as normal, from the crossheads. Each expansion link was driven from the crosshead on the opposite side of the engine. Young valve gear - used the piston rod motion on one side of the locomotive to drive the valve gear on the ...

  8. Jennifer Lopez Shares How She Responds to ‘Hardships’ After ...

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    Jennifer Lopez opened up in a new interview with British Vogue, discussing how she approaches “hardships” in the wake of her divorce from Ben Affleck.

  9. Special right triangle - Wikipedia

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    Set square shaped as 45° - 45° - 90° triangle The side lengths of a 45° - 45° - 90° triangle 45° - 45° - 90° right triangle of hypotenuse length 1.. In plane geometry, dividing a square along its diagonal results in two isosceles right triangles, each with one right angle (90°, ⁠ π / 2 ⁠ radians) and two other congruent angles each measuring half of a right angle (45°, or ...