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6 unusual facts about Screw


Darlaston

The eddy bigheads town grew in the 19th century around the nut, bolt and gun lock manufacturing and coal mining industries.

Linear actuator

A lead screw has a continuous helical thread machined on its circumference running along the length (similar to the thread on a bolt).

Screw-Jack

"Death of a Poet" relates a visit to a friend's trailer home that takes a number of bizarre twists before ending in violence.

Stanhope Wood Nixon

He attended Yale University at the Sheffield Scientific School where he was arrested for assault in 1914 when he almost killed Edward H. Evrit with a large metal bolt.

Tree stand

The part that wraps around the tree is fastened to the stand with a bolt or pin for easy adjustment for different tree sizes.

Tulip to Life

It is made from sections of sheeted stainless steel, overlapped and bolted together using brass bolts and acorn nuts, supported by rib-like structures on the underside, and curled to mimic the organic shape of a leaf.


Albany Pumps

As well as Gear pumps, Albany produces Centrifugal Pumps, Lobe, and Twin Screw Pumps (Based on Stothert & Pitt Design)

Aquarium lighting

Freshwater aquarium lighting is commonly provided by screw-in incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes and LED lamps.

Augustus Leopold Kuper

In August 1863 he hoisted his flag in the wooden screw-frigate Euryalus and led a British squadron of seven warships to Kagoshima to coerce the Daimyo of Satsuma into paying the £100,000 demanded by the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the Namamugi Incident.

Battle of Ky Hoa

Charner's squadron, the most powerful French naval force seen in Vietnamese waters before the creation of the French Far East Squadron on the eve of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885), included the steam frigates Impératrice Eugénie and Renommée (Charner and Page's respective flagships), the corvettes Primauguet, Laplace and Du Chayla, eleven screw-driven despatch vessels, five first-class gunboats, seventeen transports and a hospital ship.

Borodino-class motorship

The Borodino class were some of the first screw ships for passengers on the various rivers in Russia.

Clara Clarita

Clara Clarita was a fast screw steamer originally built as a luxury steam yacht for New York financier Leonard Jerome (grandfather of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill).

Cochliomyia hominivorax

There are five species of Cochliomyia but only one species of screw-worm fly in the genus; there is also a single Old World species in a different genus (Chrysomya bezziana).

Coes Wrench Company

Coes Wrench Company manufactured the screw type wrench that was invented by Loring Coes, this wrench is commonly known as the Monkey wrench.

Continental Championship Wrestling

Heyman and ECW promoter Tod Gordon also later had problems with promoter Dennis Coraluzzo, this led to the infamous incident where former Continental rookie Shane Douglas threw down the NWA World Heavyweight Title to screw over Coraluzzo and make ECW more popular.

Daddy Screw

Daddy Screw has also recorded collaborations and made guest appearances on tracks by several other artists including Terror Fabulous ("Broke Wine Butterfly"), Sharon Forrester ("Money Isn't Everything"), Tinga Stewart ("Dancehall Maniac"), Maxi Priest ("Heartbreaker"), Toyin Adekale ("Man Wid De Agony" and "Second to None") and Barrington Levy ("Girl I Like Your Style").

Ferrule

A metal tube crimped over stranded wire to secure it within a screw terminal usually with electrical insulation protecting any exposed portion of the wire not completely inside the screw terminal post.

Francis Barber Ogden

These inventions culminated in that of screw-propelled steamboats - for these, Ericsson's rival Francis Pettit Smith obtained the British patent but Ogden, on Ericsson's behalf, obtained the American patent.

Fucking Smilers

In addition to the standard CD package, Smilers is available in a limited-edition package with a book-bound cover, a die-cut 32-page book with illustrations by renowned artist Gary Taxali, and held together with metal screw binding.

Gibson Guitar Corporation product list

H-5E Mandola (193?-194?) Acoustic-Electric F-Style; Charlie Christian pickups/"sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickups

Gunboat

With the introduction of steam power in the early 19th century, the Royal Navy and other navies built considerable numbers of small vessels propelled by side paddles and later by screws.

Henry Maudslay

This allowed the concept of interchangeability (an idea that was already taking hold) to be practically applied to nuts and bolts.

History of mints

Minting by means of a falling weight (monkey press) intervened between the hand hammers and the screw press in many places.

HMS Clarence

The third Clarence, originally a 120 first-rate ship of the line called HMS Royal William launched in 1833, reduced to a 72-gun screw ship in 1860, renamed to Clarence in 1885 and used as a training ship.

HMS Windsor Castle

She was renamed HMS Duke of Wellington a month after being launched as a screw propelled ship in 1852.

Japanese corvette Amagi

Amagi was designed as a wooden-hulled three-masted bark-rigged sloop with a coal-fired triple expansion reciprocating steam engine driving a single screw.

Japanese corvette Tenryū

Tenryū was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted bark-rigged sloop with a coal-fired double expansion reciprocating steam engine with four boilers driving a single screw.

Japanese corvette Yamato

Yamato was designed as an iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted bark-rigged sloop-of-war with a coal-fired double expansion reciprocating steam engine with six boilers driving a single screw.

Japanese warship Kanrin Maru

The ship was built by the shipyard of Fop Smit at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands, where the virtually identical screw-steamship with schooner-rig Bali of the Dutch navy was also built in 1856.

Jean Varin

Varin brought back the use of the screw press in the mint, and used it to produce the Louis d'or, a gold coin featuring a portrait of Louis XIII.

Jim B. Taylor

Taylor was present when in 1867 Prince Alfred, son of Queen Victoria, called at the Cape aboard the screw frigate HMS Galatea (1859–1883) on his voyage around the world.

Kamov Ka-22

The Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl (rotor-wing, or literally, (air)screw-wing) (Cyrillic:Камов Ка-22 Винтокрыл) (NATO reporting name: Hoop) was a rotorcraft developed by Kamov for the Soviet Air Force.

Lake steamers of North America

A new twin-screw vessel was designed for the hull being welded back together at Lakeport.

Museum of Lake Minnetonka

In 1905, TCRT commissioned naval architect Royal C. Moore of Wayzata, Minnesota to design each of these identical vessels to be 70' long, 14'10" wide, and draw 5.5' of water. Each would be powered by a single coal-fired boiler and triple-expansion steam engine, with a single 46" screw for propulsion.

Omega Seamaster

An Omega Seamaster typically has a stainless steel case and bracelet (Bond style with Omega symbol clasp), screw-in crown and caseback, engraved with the Omega hippocampus logo, up to 1200-metre water resistant, phosphorescent hands, unidirectional bezel, blue, silver or black dial with orange accents, sapphire crystal (anti-reflective) and helium release valve.

Public Castration Is a Good Idea

It was recorded from shows in London and Nottingham on the Greed/Holy Money tour in 1986, the first six songs taken from a show at London's I.C.A. Public Castration Is A Good Idea is often regarded as the band's most brutal extant live album, the song performances here are musically quite different from their studio versions, in particular the lengthy, minimal version of "A Screw".

RS-422

The mechanical connections for this interface are specified by EIA-530 (DB-25 connector) or EIA-449 (DC-37 connector), however devices exist which have 4 screw-posts to implement the transmit and receive pair only.

Runnin' From tha Police

In 2006, Ludacris used a sample of Notorious' first words in his verse (I grew up a fucking screw up / Got introduced to the game / Got an ounce and fucking blew up) as a hook on his single Grew Up a Screw Up.

Shinehead

He began his music career by performing for different New York reggae dancehall sound systems in the 1980s, most notably Tony Screw's Downbeat The Ruler, based in The Bronx.

SS Arctic

She sank 27 September 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS Vesta in the fog.

SS Cheviot

SS Cheviot was an iron screw steamer which was wrecked near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia in 1887, with the loss of 35 lives.

SS Kaffraria

The stern part of the ship with the rudder and screw can be seen today at Otterndorf.

Susan G. Cole

She published Pornography and the Sex Crisis (Second Story) in 1988, which encapsulated her point of view and which expanded her speaking engagements, including a series of debates on college campuses with Al Goldstein, editor of Screw.

Tap and die

The die cuts a thread on a preformed cylindrical rod, which creates a male threaded piece which functions like a bolt.

The Amazing Screw-On Head

An interlude has Screw-On Head track down Patience in Marrakesh, then torture her to try to find Zombie's whereabouts.

The F-Ups

The band drew lyrical influences from such experiences as laziness ("Lazy Generation", "I Don't Know"), rebellion against parents ("Look At Your Son Now", "Screw You") and even a Jerry Springer episode ("Crack Ho").

Torx

AW, similar type of screw head developed by the Würth group in Germany.

United States Standard thread

William Sellers originally developed the USS thread, and set forth many of its details in his paper, "A System of Screw Threads and Nuts", presented in April 1864 to the Franklin Institute.

USS Pinta

USS Pinta was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy, launched on October 29, 1864, by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in October 1865, and commissioned there, Lt. Comdr.


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