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unusual facts about cylindrical



Aljaž Tower

In early 1895, Aljaž drew up plans for a cylindrical tower with a flag on its top and ordered its construction from the tinsmith and his boyhood friend Anton Belec, living in the village of Šentvid nad Ljubljano (now the Ljubljana suburb of Šentvid).

Birgenair Flight 301

Investigators believe that the most likely culprit was the black and yellow mud dauber, a type of solitary sphecid wasp well-known to Dominican pilots, which tends to establish its nest in artificial, cylindrical structures, or make its own cylindrical nest out of mud.

Bristol T.B.8

One T.B.8 was fitted with a prismatic Bombsight in the front cockpit and a cylindrical bomb carrier in the lower forward fuselage capable of carrying twelve 10 lb (4.5 kg) bombs, which could be dropped singly or as a salvo as required.

Champagne stemware

An additional novelty designed by Alissia Melka Teichroew and sold by the Museum of Modern Art came on the market in 2004, the "inside-out" double-wall glass in which the inner wall is molded in the traditional shape, but the outer wall is simply cylindrical.

Concentric

Coaxial cable is a type of electrical cable in which the combined neutral and earth core completely surrounds the live core(s) in system of concentric cylindrical shells.

Cylindrical harmonics

The term cylindrical harmonics is also used to refer to the Bessel functions (that are cylindrical harmonics in the sense described above).

Ferocactus viridescens

This cactus is spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, is usually wider than tall, and less than 30 centimeters in height.

Fleming's left-hand rule for motors

When electrons, or any charged particles, flow in the same direction (for example, as an electric current in an electrical conductor, such as a metal wire) they generate a cylindrical magnetic field that wraps round the conductor (as discovered by Hans Christian Ørsted).

Forever Green

The village of Nether Winchendon, with its distinctive cylindrical stone pillar box on the village green, is seen briefly in episodes 1 and 2 of series 1, as Jack rides home on his motorbike after giving up his job in London, and as he and Geoff Bate discuss a classic car that they are going to view.

Friction disk shock absorber

A similar pattern, with a cylindrical friction element, was used on Mercedes-Benz cars from 1928.

Gall stereographic projection

The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is cylindrical projection.

GPHS-RTG

Note that the GPHS are cuboid although they contain cylindrical plutonium based pellets.

Hakea

They can reach 1–6 m in height, and have spirally arranged leaves 2–20 cm long, simple or compound, sometimes (e.g. H. suaveolens) with the leaflets thin cylindrical and rush-like.

Hedgehog cactus

Echinocereus, a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized cylindrical cacti, comprising about 70 species from the southern United States and Mexico in very sunny rocky places

HP TouchPad

It is cylindrical roughly the size of a "D" battery with a foldable 2-prong AC connector and a Standard-A USB socket.

IPIX

'IPIX Interactive Studio', could create IPIX's proprietary format, QuickTime Cubic VR images, Equirectangular and Cylindrical Projections as JPEGs that could be viewed with Helmut Dersch's freeware Java PTViewer, Shockwave w3d files, VRML files and X3D files.

Japanese cruiser Nisshin

She was powered by two vertical triple expansion steam engines made by Ansaldo, with eight cylindrical boilers, driving two screws.

Jonquil

Narcissus jonquilla, the jonquil, a narcissus with clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers and cylindrical leaves, native to southern Europe and northeastern Africa

Lancaster Castle

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Langmuir probe

9,10 has shown that at the Maxwellian distribution function of the electrons in a reference system moving with the velocity v d across axis of the cylindrical probe set at plasma potential V = 0, the electron current on the probe can be written down in the form

Listed buildings in Brereton, Cheshire

It is in cast iron and consists of a cylindrical post with a curved plate inscribed with the distances in miles to Church Lawton, Newcastle, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Warrington, and Liverpool.

Livarot cheese

It is sold in cylindrical form with the orangish rind wrapped in 3 to 5 rings of dried reedmace (Typha latifolia).

Magic User's Club

An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day.

NACA Technical Note No. 1341

NACA Technical Note No. 1341 - A Simplified Method of Elastic-Stability Analysis for Thin Cylindrical Shells, I - Donnell's Equation was issued by the United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in June 1947.

Nissen hut

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel.

Oliver Twist Tobacco

Unlike most dipping tobacco products (especially the American varieties, such as Skoal), however, Oliver Twist is not loose, but rather formed into a cylindrical plug for easier clean-up and more discreet consumption.

Piri

During the reign of King Yejong of Goryeo dynasty, another double-reed cylindrical instrument was imported from Song dynasty China, and to disambiguate, the former was named hyang piri and the latter dang piri.

Pleuropogon hooverianus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced narrowly cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Pleuropogon refractus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Rijke tube

P. L. Rijke was a professor of physics at the Leiden University in the Netherlands when, in 1859, he discovered a way of using heat to sustain a sound in a cylindrical tube open at both ends.

Robert Burns' diamond point engravings

The pen may well survive to this day, made of a cylindrical piece of wood (elder?), and has the diamond inserted at one end in a metal extension.

Shanghai IFC

Other prominent tenants of the complex include an Apple Store under the sunken forecourt of the building (topped by a cylindrical glass skylight rising from the forecourt), a multi-screen cinema, and a Citysuper supermarket.

Snow roller

Unlike snowballs made by people, snow rollers are typically cylindrical in shape, and are often hollow since the inner layers, which are the first layers to form, are weak and thin compared to the outer layers and can easily be blown away, leaving what looks like a doughnut or Swiss roll.

St. Paul's, Deptford

The most unusual feature of the building is the cylindrical tower with a steeple, around which is wrapped a semi-circular portico of four giant Tuscan columns; colossal pilasters articulate the body of the church facades.The steeple embedded in the plane of the church wall echoes the apse at the east end.

Tap and die

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

Tetris Attack

This version, based on the first few seasons of the Pokémon anime, includes a training mode, a puzzle editor, and a 3D game mode that takes place in a cylindrical playfield.

Unjusa

The final atop the pagoda, a cylindrical stone, preserves a place for Buddha.

Vanguard 1

James Van Allen of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite based on his work with Rockoons, which became Explorer 1, the first American satellite.


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