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7 unusual facts about beam


Beam-index tube

Another solution to the indexing problem was introduced by David Goodman of New York University.

Continuous casting

Conventional beam blanks: look similar to I-beams in cross-section; 1048×450 mm or 438×381 mm overall

Freedom Lite SS-11 Skywatch

The wing is built with an aluminum structure, with an I-beam spar and stamped ribs.

The Builders

Then, in further questioning Basil about the work, Stubbs finds out maybe he was not called in for nought after all; while making a doorway leading into the kitchen, which was on a load-bearing wall, O'Reilly had used a wooden lintel for the support frame rather than a concrete one or Rolled Steel Joist.

Transmission tower

Lattice steel towers are generally made of angle-profiled steel beams (L- or T-beams).

Utah State Route 161

The parallel T-beam bridges that carry I-15 over SR-161 at its northern terminus were constructed in 1966 along with the construction of I-15 though the area.

Whipple Cast and Wrought Iron Bowstring Truss Bridge

Latitudinal and longitudinal I-beams supported by the bottom chords provide a deck frame.


1960 Agadir earthquake

He was treated at a hospital in Casablanca for minor injuries he received while at the Saada resort when it collapsed - he had been trapped under a fallen beam for several hours.

Alex Beam

In December, 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot".

Amanda Reddin

Personal coach of many successful gymnasts, including three time world champion Beth Tweddle, two time British All-Around champion Hannah Whelan and 2012 British Beam Champion and Olympic Team member Jennifer Pinches.

Bailey Ruin

Emil W. Haury visited the site in 1927 and 1929, first for the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation and then for the National Geographic Society Third Beam Expedition.

Cathode ray tube amusement device

The player turns a control knob to position the CRT beam on the screen; to the player, the beam appears as a dot, which represents a reticle or scope.

CD-ROM

Because the depth of the pits is approximately one-quarter to one-sixth of the wavelength of the laser light used to read the disc, the reflected beam's phase is shifted in relation to the incoming beam, causing destructive interference and reducing the reflected beam's intensity.

Celestial Completion

The title of track four, "The Path of the Beam", is a reference to Stephen King's The Dark Tower (series), which bassist/vocalist, Jason Wisdom, & guitarist/keyboardist/clean vocalist, Seth Hecox are both fans of.

CirKus

Lolita plays Roland V-Synth (with its D-Beam system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and Akai MPC

Cockburn's Port House

In 1962, the company ceased to be a family-owned business when it was sold to Harvey’s of Bristol, which itself then became part of Allied Domecq until 2005, when Allied Domecq was taken over by Pernod Ricard, which sold Cockburn's and some other brands to the Fortune Brands holding company (the parent company of Beam Global).

Color grading

From there, each individual beam is then reflected on to a photomultiplier tube (PMT), where the photons are converted into an electronic signal to be recorded to tape.

Duma Optronics

Secondly, the use of Knife Edge type analyzers, a unique state-of-the-art technology (patented), enabling a knife edge profiling the beam at various intersection angles, followed by a Tomographic reconstruction algorithm, generating the spatial intensity distribution map at the intersection plane.

Electron beam tomography

Electron beam tomography (EBT) is a specific form of computed tomography (CAT or CT) in which the X-ray tube is not mechanically spun in order to rotate the source of X-ray photons.

Good Hope Centre

The Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa (1976) by Pier Luigi Nervi, is an exhibition hall and conference centre, with the exhibition hall comprising an arch with tie-beam on each of the four vertical facades and two diagonal arches supporting two intersecting barrel-like roofs which in turn were constructed from pre-cast concrete triangular coffers with in-situ concrete beams on the edges.

Gulf Tower

Since 2001, the opening of PNC Park across the Allegheny River, fans have noticed that after Pittsburgh Pirates home-runs, the "beam" light flashes in celebration.

Harry P. Beam

Beam was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his resignation on December 6, 1942.

Hotaru Beam

Hotaru Beam is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli.

Huber's equation

Very useful in calculating the span width of the bridges like Golden Gate Bridge or Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, their beam cross-sections, etc.

IvyGate

A small controversy arose in December 2006 involving Beam's father, prominent Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam.

Jaume Plensa

At 22:00 GMT each evening a beam of light will be projected from the sculpture extending 1 km into the sky for 30 minutes to coincide with the BBC News at Ten.

Jitte

In the 1992 anime Gundam 0083, the first Gundam piloted by the main character was equipped with a short beam blade, designed with the express purpose of blocking enemy blades.

Ken Millin

Millin works as a school teacher at Jacob Beam Public School in Beamsville, Ontario and has a wife (Jennifer) and daughter (Raiya).

Kerala Hitech Industries Limited

KELTEC is a single stop work centre with multidisciplinary capability such as Conventional and CNC Machining, Metal Forming, Auto TIG and Electron Beam Welding, Vacuum Brazing, Heat Treatment, Surface Treatment etc.

Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 3: Keroro vs. Keroro Great Sky Duel

Keroro points the Gundam's beam rifle up and shoots a hole in the ceiling (This scene is a reference to a scene of the final episode of Mobile Suit Gundam when Amuro Ray and Char Aznable were battling).

Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers

Clutch returns to Lego City and hands the crystal to his boss Kjeld Playwell (Paul Michael Glaser) who assigns him some new teammates: Brick Masterson (Roger Rose) firefighter weapons specialist and demolition expert, Peg Mooring (Yvonne Strahovski) a biologist, and Bernie von Beam (Jeff Bennett) an engineer.

Mackenzie Caquatto

At this competition, she competed on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise; winning the silver medal on the uneven bars with a score of 14.675, only behind world silver medalist on the event, Koko Tsurumi of Japan.

Marine steam engine

The Philadelphian shipbuilder Charles H. Cramp blamed America's general lack of competitiveness with the British shipbuilding industry in the mid-to-late 19th century upon the conservatism of American domestic shipbuilders and shipping line owners, who doggedly clung to outdated technologies like the walking beam and its associated paddlewheel long after they had been abandoned in other parts of the world.

Microtome

Spectroscopy (especially FTIR or Infrared spectroscopy) Technique: thin polymer sections are needed in order that the infra-red beam will penetrate the sample under examination.

Muon spin spectroscopy

Up to now, PSI is the only facility where such low-energy muon beam is available on a regular basis.

Neutron depth profiling

In NDP, a thermal or cold neutron beam passes through a material and interacts with isotopes that emit monoenergetic charged particles upon neutron absorption; either a proton or an alpha, and a recoil nucleus.

Orlunda radio transmitter

The transmitter beam was later changed on the two remaining antennas to improve reception in Copenhagen and Helsinki without decreasing reception in Oslo.

Parker, Texas

Nastia Liukin, gymnast, 2008 Olympic Individual All-Around Gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars.

Port Soderick railway station

There was however much damage to the Vauxhall van and remedial damage to the wooden buffer beam of the 1874-built locomotive which was involved.

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System is a book by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort describing the history and technical challenges of programming for the Atari 2600 video game console.

Radio acoustic sounding system

The principle of operation behind RASS is as follows: Bragg scattering occurs when acoustic energy (i.e., sound) is transmitted into the vertical beam of a radar such that the wavelength of the acoustic signal matches the half-wavelength of the radar.

Rigaku

1976 Rigaku developed the first parallel-beam type X-ray diffractometer for stress analysis, as well as the first X-ray fluorescence spectrometers capable of carbon analysis (1976) and boron analysis (1981).

Scarab Club

Since then, signing the beam has become a ceremonial honor, and the autographs of art world luminaries such as John Sloan, Diego Rivera, Pablo Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, and John Sinclair grace the beams.

Scott Mutter

His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco International Airport and at the opening of the Beam Performing Arts Center in Tokyo.

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Membrane proteins and amyloid fibrils, the latter related to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, are two examples of application where solid-state NMR spectroscopy complements solution-state NMR spectroscopy and beam diffraction methods (e.g. X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy).

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

Templon

The late 12th-century templon beam shows twelve canonical feast scenes, with the Deesis (Christ enthroned, flanked by Mary and St. John the Baptist) located in the middle between the Transfiguration and the Raising of Lazarus, linking the scene of Lazarus with the Holy Week images according to liturgical practice.

Terra Prime

Fortunately, Tucker had altered the target, and the beam harmlessly strikes the water near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Wave radar

The beam of an IR radar (laser) is non dispersive, the radar footprint is therefore independent of range.

Wendy, Cambridgeshire

The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.

WXON-LP

It had a construction permit to increase power to 150 kW from a location near Otisville, which would have covered Flint and northwestern Genesee County with its directional beam; however, the construction permit expired in February 2008, and was not renewed.

Yanou

2000 "Cosmic Gate - Somewhere Over the Rainbow / Fire Wire (Beam & Yanou)"

Yelena Produnova

Produnova also took a bronze on beam, behind teammate Svetlana Khorkina, and a silver on floor behind Ludivine Furnon of France.

Yinling

She was sidelined from promotion when she was (kayfabe) shot by a fictitious laser beam wielded by The Esperanza during a wrestling match.


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