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3 unusual facts about machinery


Machinist's handbook

Today, the phrases "machinist's handbook" or "machinists' handbook" are almost always imprecise references to Machinery's Handbook.

During the decades from World War I through World War II, these phrases could refer to either of two competing reference books: McGraw-Hill's American Machinists' Handbook or Industrial Press's Machinery's Handbook.

The latter book, Machinery's Handbook, is still regularly revised and updated, and it continues to be a "bible of the metalworking industries" today.


Adam C. Stacey

He believed that a carte blance approach that treated large scale machinery driven businesses equally with home based occupations could legalize industrial operations that would damage homeowners' property values in the rural areas north of Interstate Highway 69.

Aebi

AEBI is a Switzerland based manufacturer of municipal and agriculture machinery

All-Russia Exhibition Centre

Later there is another little square facing the Space Pavilion which in the center of the square standing a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, placed there in the 1960s after the pavilion of "agricultural machinery" become the "space pavilion".

Automotive Industry Standards

The test agencies are – Automotive Research Association of India, Pune (ARAI), Vehicle Research & Development Establishment, Ahmednagar, Central Farm Machinery Testing and Training Institute, Budhni, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Central Institute of Road Transport, Pune and International Centre for Automotive Technology, Manesar.

Barnaul

Leading industries in the city work with diesel and carbon processing; as well as production of heavy machinery, tires, furniture and footwear.

Batesian mimicry

In weed, or Vavilovian mimicry, the weed does not profit from encounters with man or his winnowing machinery; at best the weed is left, at worst it is destroyed.

Battle of the Chinese Farm

The farm featured specialised, Japanese-made machinery; Israeli soldiers mistook Japanese characters on this equipment for Chinese, leading to the area being labeled 'Chinese Farm' on Israeli military maps.

Berndt August Hjorth

In 1889 he opened a tools and machinery shop in Stockholm, BA Hjorth & Co, incorporated as a shareholder company in 1916 and in 1954 renamed Bahco.

Bulk tank

European standard EN 13732 (Food processing machinery – Bulk milk coolers on farms – Requirements for construction, performance, suitability for use, safety and hygiene), published in 2003, updated in 2009

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Led by Captain Sherod Hunter, the raid destroyed the mill machinery, captured Ammi White and returned the flour and other food to the Pima.

Charleston Tea Plantation

Since Bigelow bought the Charleston Tea Plantation, they have been working on updating the machinery, the process, and expanding the grounds as well as production.

Corporation Bridge

For a short time, following an incident in which a winch stripped a number of cogs from the bridge's machinery, it was opened by a tugboat.

Crosland Moor

They objected to the introduction of machinery Horsfall's mill in Marsden.

Crown Metal Products

Ken's son, Bert Williams, continued to support the Crown locomotives, providing replacement parts and service through his company, Castle Ridge Products of Claysville, Pennsylvania, until 2004, when the necessary tooling and machinery was donated to the Tweetsie Railroad, who currently handles the restoration and service of the engines.

Economy of São Paulo

Heavy metallurgical plants located in nearby Taubaté, oil refineries and chemical plants in Cubatão, and plants manufacturing motor vehicles, transportation equipment, and farm machinery in Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, and Diadema make large contributions to production.

Erik Buell

Buell was raised on a farm in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, and thus learned to work on machinery at a young age.

Erkki Kurenniemi

He subsequently worked as a designer of control systems for industrial robots at Oy W. Rosenlew Ab (1976–1978), and as a designer of industrial automation and robotic systems at Nokia’s cable machinery division (1980–1986).

Fabio Perini S.p.A.

Fabio Perini starts his activity in 1960 when he invents a machinery for the automatic cut of tissue paper.

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

Gütenbach

The town's largest employer is the special purpose machinery manufacture Rena.

Hacienda Luisita

Americans brought the centrifugal-based machinery which doubled the production of the estate and therefore did not require the cane to be loaded onto a truck to Laguna to be squeezed in the haciendas there, including those of the Roxas and Zóbel families.

Halil Zıraman

He graduated from the Agricultural Machinery Vocational College in Ankara following his education at the Agriculture Vocational High School in Bornova, İzmir.

HD66

At the 4th China Police Expo held in Beijing, Chinese companies introduced two kinds of nonlinear of sight tactic weapon systems, the HD66 and CF06, which are based on QSZ-92 9 mm pistol and co-developed by Chongqing Changfeng Machinery Co Ltd and Shanghai Sea Shield Technologies Company.

Head-related transfer function

HRTF describes how a given sound wave input (parameterized as frequency and source location) is filtered by the diffraction and reflection properties of the head, pinna, and torso, before the sound reaches the transduction machinery of the eardrum and inner ear (see auditory system).

Helmshore

Mill ponds, weirs, sluice gates and an aqueduct are also part of the museum as well as a 19th-century working waterwheel, fulling stocks and other machinery associated with the finishing of woollen cloth, an original Arkwright water frame, and a Hargreaves Spinning Jenny.

History of BMW motorcycles

With the Armistice, the Treaty of Versailles banned the German air force and the manufacture of aircraft in Germany, so the company turned to making air brakes, industrial engines, agricultural machinery, toolboxes and office furniture and then to motorcycles and cars.

Holbay Engineering

The tools and machinery of the original company were sold at auction and the company re-opened as Holbay Classics under new ownership and management in the nearby village of Grundisburgh.

J. I. Case

Jerome Case (1819–1891) — Jerome Increase Case, farm machinery maker and racehorse owner; founder of J. I. Case Company

James H. Burton

Burton returned to Macon in October 1863, where he awaited delivery of several shipments of machinery from the firm Greenwood & Batley of Leeds, England.

Joy Mining Machinery

Joy Mining Machinery is a manufacturer of surface and underground mining machinery based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States.

The Joy Mining Machinery business is headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania with over 40 field offices in eight countries.

LAPA Flight 3142

The jet overshot the runway, breaking through the airport's perimeter fence, crossed a road, hitting an automobile, and finally collided with road-construction machinery and a highway median.

Lego Mars Mission

It is set on Mars and features astronauts, aliens, and high-tech machinery.

Lela Cole Kitson

Her father's upward move in the mining plant design and reduction machinery design led the family in 1896 to Chicago, Illinois, in 1900 to Aspen, Colorado, and in 1902 to Cananea, Mexico.

Link-Belt Construction Equipment

The Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company was founded as Link-Belt Machinery Company in 1880 by William Dana Ewart.

Machinery of government

The Commonwealth Government and some state and territory governments utilise Administrative Arrangements Orders (also called AAOs) as legal instruments as a primary method to make machinery of government changes.

Manuel Saumell

A workforce of black slaves sets up the machinery of one of El Cerro's first sugar mills.

Mitochondrial fusion

There is a mitochondrial outer membrane fusion machinery, composed by proteins of the Fzo1 family in yeast or by MFN1, MFN2 in mammals, and a mitochondrial inner membrane fusion machinery, with the Mgm1 protein in yeast or the equivalent OPA1 in mammals.

Niels Christensen

Christensen became a leading draftsman at Fraser and Chalmers in Chicago, a manufacturer of machinery for industry, mining, and transportation.

Prague astronomical clock

The machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948, but only after significant effort.

PWB shell

In particular, Environment variables and related machinery were designed by Stephen Bourne, John Mashey, and Dennis Ritchie as a general mechanism to replace the earlier, more limited features.

Restoration spectacular

The first, The State of Innocence (1677), was never staged, as his designated company, the King's, had neither the capital nor the machinery for it: a dramatisation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, it called for "rebellious angels wheeling in the air, and seeming transfixed with thunderbolts" over "a lake of brimstone or rolling fire".

River Babingley

This tributary of the river is called the River Cong, flowing through the woods and over an impressive waterfall, where in the past it powered all the machinery within the Congham Oil Mill.

Robert Henry Thurston

In 1873 he was appointed a member of the United States Scientific Commission to the Vienna Exhibition ; served upon the international jury, edited the Report of the Commissioners (in which he published his own report on machinery and manufactures), in five volumes, 1875-6.

Robert Hudson Ltd

With the demise of the Gildersome works the company became a sales and service organisation for construction plant and machinery e.g. Ford, Barford, Kubota.

SIGIR

Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) concerned about information retrieval

Spreader

Manure spreader, an agricultural machinery designed to spread manure.

SS Abbotsford

On January 7 a machinery failure disabled the Abbotsford while easterly bound and she was taken in tow by the SS Pennsylvania.

The Haters

Haters performances typically consist of Jupitter-Larsen and one other performer, both wearing masks, creating extremely loud noise using various types of machinery, with the sound distorted and amplified until it is virtually unrecognizable.

World War II German uniform

The color and Totenköpfe (skulls) were chosen due to their similarity to the uniforms of August von Mackensen's Black Hussars, and also for practical reasons: the black color made oil stains less visible and a short jacket was less likely to get caught in the machinery.


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