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11 unusual facts about hertz


170 Hz

The title refers to the frequency of 170 Hertz, the highest frequency which still can be heard by main character Nick (e.g. the sound of a motor bike).

Cambridge Bay LORAN Tower

Today the tower is used as a Non-directional beacon (NDB) and is often called the "CB" beacon after the morse code letters that it transmits on 245 kHz, with an output power of 2000 watts.

Fibril

Insect flight muscle is said to be fibrillar, in that it contracts in response to being stretched by antagonistic muscle, so as to allow very rapid (up to 1000 Hz) contraction.

Foster Hewitt

In 1951, he started his own radio station in Toronto, CKFH, initially at AM 1400 kHz, until moving to 1430 in 1959.

George A. Drew

Drew's government insisted on spending $400 million in a ten-year program to convert Ontario's electricity system from 25-cycles (Hertz) to 60-cycles, standardizing it with the rest of North America.

Lavalier microphone

A peak of approximately 6 dB at 6-8 kHz is considered beneficial for compensating loss of clarity when chest-mounted, as is a peak of a few decibels at 10–15 kHz when mounted in the hair above the forehead.

Low-frequency effects

The low-frequency effects (LFE) channel is the name of an audio track specifically intended for deep, low-pitched sounds ranging from 3-120 Hz.

Luke Kruytbosch

Kruytbosch did voice-over work on commercials, including a national ad for Hertz and also voiced-over racecalls on television shows including CBS's Martial Law and The Sentinel.

Maxime de la Rochefoucauld

The signal, in the range of 1-10 Hz, is most often generated on a synthesizer and prerecorded, but may be played live or be generated from other electrical sources.

Pop music automation

An algorithm is constructed to produce and output note values based on the transition matrix weightings, which could be MIDI note values, frequency (Hz), or any other desirable metric.

SNCF TGV Sud-Est

Currently there are 107 passenger sets operating, of which nine are tri-current (25 kV 50-60 Hz AC - French lignes à grande vitesse, 1500 V DC - French lignes classiques, 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC - Switzerland) and the rest bi-current (25 kV 50–60 Hz AC, 1500 V DC).


17 Hertz Studio

Current and recent clients of 17 Hertz Studio include Akon, Alex Da Kid, CeeLo Green, Goodie Mob, Bone Thugz N Harmony, Boyz II Men, Crooks & Castles, Deezle, Jabbawockeez, Lewis Hamilton, Mann, Mark Ronson, Prince Royce, Ray Dalton, Skylar Grey, Stalley, Steve Lobel and Zendaya.

1941 American Football League season

A syndicate headed by William Cox was awarded the franchise in August, but Hertz kept the name for his new independent team (which later in the season became a traveling team in the American Association).

2003 NRL season

To produce the ad the League returned to the agency who created and produced the Tina Turner campaigns from 1989 to 1995 - Hertz Walpole Advertising by now renamed MJW Hakuhodo.

AN/FPS-23

The AN/FPS-23 DEW-Line radar system was manufactured by Motorola, and operated at frequencies between 475 and 525 MHz, with 1 kilowatt of output power.

Bioacoustics

Katydid crickets, for example, communicate by sounds with frequencies higher than 100 kHz, far into the ultrasound range.

Conversocial

Companies and organizations such as Barclaycard, GoDaddy, American Greetings, Groupon, Hertz, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and JackThreads use Conversocial's Software as a Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.

Delhi University Community Radio

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) opened the airwaves in 2004, as it allowed educational institutions to get licence for community radio paving way many education institutions in India, including Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) at 96.9 hertz, Jamia at 90.4 hertz, to set up their own community radio stations since 2005 with a radius of 10–15 km.

Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee

In 1955, the coffee roasters and importers Max Hertz, Walter Jacobs, Eduard Schopf and Bernhard Rothfos (*1898 in St. Magnus, †1998 in Hamburg) got together to plan the conversion of their own factories in order to facilitate the joint operation of the complex and expensive coffee extraction process (alongside Nestlé and Maxwell).

Dubuque Regional Airport

The terminal also has a baggage carousel, desks for three airlines and rental car services including Avis and Hertz.

Fort Hertz

Fort Hertz was a remote British Military outpost in northeastern Burma in the district of Putao in what is now the Kachin State near the present town of Putao.

Garaj Mahal

Garaj Mahal is a four piece band, based in the United States, playing a fusion of jazz, Indian music, rock, and especially funk: Kai Eckhardt (bass), Fareed Haque (guitars), Alan Hertz (drums), Sean Rickman (drums) and Eric Levy (keys).

Hot air oven

Power supply needs vary from country to country, depending on the voltage and frequency (hertz) used.

Induction coil

They were used by Hertz to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves, as predicted by James Maxwell and by Lodge and Marconi in the first research into radio waves.

Joseph Hertz

Hertz was strongly opposed to Reform and Liberal Judaism, though he did not allow this to create personal animosities, and had no objection in principle to attending the funerals of Reform Jews.

Magellan Navigation

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering centers in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces aftermarket automotive GPS units, including the Hertz Neverlost system found in Hertz rental cars.

Nikolaus Riehl

Soon after being taken to the Soviet Union, Riehl, von Ardenne, Hertz, and Volmer were summoned for a meeting with Lavrentij Beria, head of the NKVD and the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Paul Schoeffler

He originated the role of the German developer, Hertz, in the Broadway cast of Rock Of Ages and will return to the role on October 26, 2009, following a 3-month absence where he played Lawerence Jameson in the Walnut Street Theatre production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Musical.

Pygopodidae

Individuals in the species Delma pax can respond to a 60-decibel sound with a frequency of 11,100 Hz, more than an octave above the highest note on a standard piano.

Richard Maxfield

A Hertz Prize travel scholarship allowed Maxfield to travel to Europe, where he met Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono.

Robert Stone

Robert L. Stone (1922–2009), former chief executive of The Hertz Corporation

Sacramento Station

Rental car companies: Hertz and Enterprise both service the station with pick-up and drop-off availability, though neither has a desk inside the station.

Salisbury–Ocean City–Wicomico Regional Airport

Avis, Hertz, and Enterprise all operate automobile rental services in the arrival terminal.

Sonic boom

The energy range of sonic boom is concentrated in the 0.1–100 hertz frequency range that is considerably below that of subsonic aircraft, gunfire and most industrial noise.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes became assistant to Heinrich Hertz in Bonn 1890–1891 and made substantial contributions to Hertz' work on electromagnetic resonance.

Wife, Husband and Friend

Myrna Loy was originally cast in the role eventually played by Loretta Young, with Lionel Atwill considered for the part of Hertz, Ed Brophy for the part of Jaffe, and Eily Malyon for the part of Mrs. Craig.

Yellow Cab Ambassador

John D. Hertz remained as president and the Ambassador D-1 model became the "Hertz".

Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company

Its car rental subsidiary (known both as 'Hertz Drivurself Corp' or 'Yellow Drive-It-Yourself') was purchased back by John Hertz in 1953 through The Omnibus Corporation and floated the following year as The Hertz Corporation.