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  2. Long-range acoustic device - Wikipedia

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    A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control , which has caused permanent hearing damage , having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one ...

  3. From my cold, dead hands - Wikipedia

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    Heston then paused to pick up a replica of a flintlock long rifle and continued: [5] So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: 'From my cold, dead hands!' [6]

  4. Stock sound effect - Wikipedia

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    As far back as Ancient Greece, sound effects have been used in entertainment productions. Sound effects (also known as sound FX, SFX, or simply FX) are used to enhance theatre, radio, film, television, video games, and online media. Sound effects were originally added to productions by creating the sounds needed in real-time.

  5. Pickup (music technology) - Wikipedia

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    Their proprietary "Ric-O-Sound" circuitry has two separate output jacks, allowing the musician to send each pickup to its own audio chain (effects device, amplifier, mix console input). Teisco produced a guitar with a stereo option. [19] Teisco divided the two sections in the upper three strings and the lower three strings for each individual ...

  6. Technical (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    A Zhongxing Grand Tiger technical with a mounted FN MAG during the First Libyan Civil War. A technical, known as a non-standard tactical vehicle (NSTV) in United States military parlance, is a light improvised fighting vehicle, typically an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle modified to mount SALWs and heavy weaponry, such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher ...

  7. Covert listening device - Wikipedia

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    It consisted of a microphone in one location and a remote listening post with a speaker that could also be recorded using a phonograph. While also marketed as a device that allowed broadcasting of sounds, or dictating text from one room to a typist in another, it was used in several criminal investigations. [8] [9]

  8. Oerlikon 20 mm cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I.It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II.

  9. Humbucker - Wikipedia

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    Coil taps are most commonly found on single coil pickups, and involve adding an extra hook-up wire during manufacture of the pickup so the guitarist can choose to have all the windings of the pickup included in the circuit, for a fatter, higher output sound with more midrange, or switch the output to 'Tap' into the windings at a point less than ...