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  2. Walter Schlage - Wikipedia

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    His first patent was in 1909, inventing a door lock that turned lights on and off. [1] At the time, Schlage was a citizen of Germany residing in Berkeley, California. [2] In 1919, Schlage patented a door knob which, when pushed up, locked the door. [3] [4] This was succeeded by a door knob incorporating a push-button lock, patented in 1924. [5]

  3. Schlage - Wikipedia

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    Schlage (/ ʃ l eɪ ɡ / SHLAYG) [1] [2] is an American lock manufacturer founded in 1920 by Walter Schlage. Schlage was headquartered in San Francisco from its inception until it relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1997. Schlage also produces high-security key and cylinder lines Primus, Everest, and Everest Primus XP.

  4. AN/FSG-1 - Wikipedia

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    AN/FSG-1 systems in 9 U.S. nuclear bunkers (large building) networked local radars and "up to 24 Nike Hercules AD missile batteries". [5]The AN/FSG-1 was an outgrowth of the July 1945 Signal Corps' Project 414A for an electronic Air Defense Fire Distribution System (ADFDS), [10] a 1950 prototype computer and console system, [11] and the 1954 experimental forerunner/"test system" [3] [12]: 55 ...

  5. Schlage (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Schlage is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Walter Schlage (1882–1946), German-born American engineer and inventor

  6. Remote keyless system - Wikipedia

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    His electrically actuated lock system could be controlled by using a handheld fob to stream infrared data. Patented in 1981 after successful submission in 1979, it worked using a "coded pulse signal generator and battery-powered infra-red radiation emitter." In some geographic areas, the system is called a PLIP system, or Plipper, after Lipschutz.

  7. Blowback (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    In firearms, a blowback system is generally defined as an operating system in which energy to operate the firearm's various mechanisms, and automate the loading of another cartridge, is derived from the inertia of the spent cartridge case being pushed out the rear of the chamber by rapidly expanding gases produced by a burning propellant, typically gunpowder. [3]

  8. STS-132 - Wikipedia

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    Although the initial plan was to replace three batteries, the two astronauts managed to replace an additional fourth battery during EVA 2. The batteries Bowen and Good replaced had originally been launched in November 2000. After the battery work and cleanup of the area, Bowen and Good moved on to the new backup K u band antenna on the Z1 truss ...

  9. Willi Schlage - Wikipedia

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    Willi Schlage (24 December 1888 – 5 May 1940 in Berlin) was a German chess master and trainer. Active as a player during the inter-war years of the Weimar Republic and later as a trainer during the rise of the Third Reich, Schlage is remembered for a game depicted in the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which chess writers attributed to him.