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unusual facts about compressed


Jem Stansfield

Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).


Accurizing

The precharged pneumatic uses an external source of compressed air, either an external pump or a high pressure reservoir such as a SCUBA tank, to fill a reservoir.

Acromyrmex ameliae

The species can be distinguish from the host using its propodeal spines: they are straight and laterally compressed unlike subterraneus subspecies where they are slight to strongly curved and conical.

Air brake

Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars

Air cannon

Air gun, a rifle, pistol, or shotgun which fires projectiles by means of compressed air or other gas

Air blaster, a compressed air device to unblock large storage containers for powdery material

Air Car

Compressed air car, a car that uses a motor powered by compressed air

Air knife

In order to achieve the highest efficiency using compressed air, many manufacturers of compressed air knives utilize the Coandă effect to improve compressed air knife design over other types of knives and nozzles.

Air line

Air line is most commonly used for supplying compressed air to air tools in workshops and in road vehicle air brake or railway air brake systems on larger vehicles or rail cars.

Artpack

An artpack is an archive of computer artwork which is distributed in a compressed format such as ZIP or RAR.

Ascii85

When ZMODEM programs send pre-compressed 8-bit data files over 7-bit data channels,

BMP file format

Indexed color images may be compressed with 4-bit or 8-bit RLE or Huffman 1D algorithm.

Boulton Paul Aircraft

The subsequent Overstrand bomber featured the world's first enclosed, power-operated turret, mounting a single Lewis gun and propelled by compressed air.

Brutus de Villeroi

The French Navy was also already working on another design, Plongeur, with a compressed air engine, which was launched in 1863.

Carrier Strike Group Eleven 2004–09 operations

The bilateral force conducted air defense, anti-surface warfare, anti-subsurface warfare, and VBSS operations in the compressed waterspace of the South China Sea, validating current tactics, techniques and procedures and identifying areas for further development.

Chicken gun

In the 1970s, Goodyear Aerospace in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, used a gun with a ceramic diaphragm to seal the compressed air in the tank from the gun's barrel.

Def Classic Mix

On many of the best examples of these mixes, Knuckles was working with engineer John Poppo, and his engineering alone provided a uniquely solid bass and tight, compressed high-end percussion (see gated snare) that many aficionados can immediately identify.

Duplicati

Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed remote backups of local files on cloud storage services and remote file servers.

EcoCute

In Japan, Fusanosuke Kuhara, founder of Hitachi, Ltd., made an air conditioner for his own home use using compressed CO2 as a refrigerant.

Electron microprobe

Since these fossils are often compressed into a 2D film, it can be difficult to deduce what features were what: a famous example is that of triangular extensions in Opabinia, which were interpreted as either legs or extensions of the gut.

Farmington, New York

The land, at an average elevation of 600 feet above sea level, is compressed by the Wisconsin glaciation and slopes from an elevation of 700 feet at the southern border with the town of Canandaigua, to 500 feet at the north boundary with the town of Macedon.

Gorgonia ventalina

Many of the smaller branches are compressed in the plane of the fan, a fact that distinguishes this species from the Venus sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum).

Gravel Gertie

It was named after the character of the same name from the Dick Tracy comics; the compressed mass of gravel forming the ceiling of the bunker reportedly reminded researchers of Gertie's grey, curly hair.

Green Grotto Caves

It is most memorable for being the location where Bond (played for the first time by Roger Moore) kills Kananga (played by Yaphet Kotto) by forcing him to swallow a bullet of compressed air, causing him to float up to the ceiling like a balloon and explode.

Gymnarthridae

In some genera, such as Bolterpeton and Cardiocephalus, the teeth are labiolingually compressed.

Heron cylinder head

("Squish" is an effect in internal combustion engines whereby turbulence is created when the compressed charge is "squished" as the piston reaches TDC. Such turbulence is desirable as it promotes more extensive mixing of the fuel/air mixture: cf: cf1, cf2, cf3).

High tension leads

Radio suppressor type spark plug wires use compressed carbon powder as a conductor, rather than solid metal wire, to reduce radio frequency interference (RFI) produced by the wires, which may cause malfunction of sensitive electronic systems in modern vehicles.

Human cannonball

In the 1920s, Ildebrando Zacchini invented a cannon that used compressed air to launch a human cannonball.

Lenna

A 2012 paper on compressed sensing by Deanna Needell and Rachel Ward uses a photo of the model Fabio Lanzoni as a test image to draw attention to this issue.

LSWR suburban lines

Using compressed air and the Greathead tunnelling shield, the line was constructed in twin tubes, passing under the River Thames and terminating at the Mansion House, in a common station provided by the Central London Railway.

Macrium Reflect

Data is compressed and encrypted in real time using Abraham Lempel LZ based compression and AES encryption algorithms.

Mike Amigorena

He first appeared in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor, notably in a 1998 local production of German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, and in a compressed Shakespeare production from 2004 to 2006, which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards.

Mp3TrueEdit

mp3TrueEdit is a software application for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to edit 'lossy' compressed MP3 and AAC audio files without decompressing and re-compressing the audio information and hence maintains the original sound quality.

Multiscale Electrophysiology Format

Data fidelity is ensured by a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check in each compressed data block using the Koopman polynomial (0xEB31D82E), which has a Hamming distance of from 4 to 114 kbits.

Pneumatic motor

Since the Quasiturbine is a pure expansion engine, while the Wankel and most other rotary engines are not, it is well-suited as a compressed fluid engine, air engine or air motor.

Air Hogs, a toy brand, also uses compressed air to power piston engines in toy airplanes (and some other toy vehicles).

Stems and Seeds

Folds explained its release as being due to popular demand, as many fans requested a less compressed version.

Strange Change Machine

The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy from the late 1960s, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals & science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form.

The Wars

His main distinction between The Wars and works like War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms is the compressed size of The Wars, usually being under two hundred pages (depending on the edition).

Toonstruck

Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV and was also one of the first video games to include stock music from APM Music, notably the classic "Spooky Scherzo" by Sam Fonteyn.

Tsuga chinensis

Aljos Farjon, a conifer expert from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, considers this variety identical with the type, but according to Raven and Wu it differs from the type by having seed scales which are compressed orbicular to nearly semiorbicular.

Welcome Rain To My Life

In addition to its telecasts in South Korea and Southeast Asia, the series was shown in Hawaii on KBFD/Honolulu, with most of the 30 minute episodes compressed into 90 minutes, complete with in-house subtitles.

Winnipegoceras

Winnipegoceras, named by Foerste (1922) for fossils found near Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, is known by it large, slender, compressed, strongly curved exogastric shells; long slender body chamber and siphuncle that is slightly removed from the venter which is the outer, longitudinally convex margin.

Yamigo

::"We would like to stress the fact that we see a benefit in using some chat clients over others. For example, most of the existing Nokia and Ericsson phones use a compressed version of the data exchange protocol, known as WBXML, while Motorola chat clients use plain XML. Motorola generate data transfers ten times higher than Nokia and Sony-Ericsson phones."


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