X-Nico

unusual facts about measuring



Air draft

At several bridges, such as the Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach, CA, NOAA has installed an "Air Gap" measuring device that accurately measures the distance from its sensor on the bridge to the water surface and can be accessed by marine pilots and ship's masters to aid them in making real time determination of clearance.

AirTrack

Air track a piece of scientific equipment for measuring uniformly accelerated motion.

Alfajor

According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.

B1A4

As B1A4 hosted their first solo concert, BABA B1A4, fans from all over the world sent gifts and donations to B1A4, measuring up to approximately 2 tons of rice, 2,356 coal briquettes, 300 eggs, 300 kg of pet food, and 10 mango trees.

Bay Bridge Series

This series was interrupted minutes before Game 3 on October 17, 1989, when an earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale, struck the San Francisco Bay Area.

Catherine Cate Coblentz

Mrs. Coblentz published a poem on Mars in Popular Astronomy magazine in 1924, the same year that her husband was measuring the temperature of Mars at the Lowell Observatory.

Crookes tube

Eugen Goldstein thought he had figured out a method of measuring the speed of cathode rays.

Cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel

By measuring the currents activated in excised inside-out membrane patches upon superfusion with varying ligand concentrations, the ligand sensitivity and selectivity of both endogenously and exogenously expressed CNG channels have been studied.

Danjon scale

The Danjon Scale of lunar eclipse brightness is a five-point scale useful for measuring the appearance and luminosity of the Moon during a lunar eclipse.

Deforestation in Brazil

In an American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate, two research meteorologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Andrew Negri and Robert Adler have analysed the impact of deforestation on climatic patterns in the Amazon using data and observatory readings obtained from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission collected over many years.

Earth's orbit

In 1989, Jacques Laskar's work showed that the Earth's orbit (as well as the orbits of all the inner planets) is chaotic and that an error as small as 15 metres in measuring the initial position of the Earth today would make it impossible to predict where the Earth would be in its orbit in just over 100 million years' time.

Einstein protocol

Einstein protocol is a standard used for precisely measuring the distance between two objects in space.

Fear index

Fear Index - common name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, ticker symbol VIX, measuring the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options

Francis Beaufort

Whereas other wartime officers sought leisurely pursuits, Beaufort spent his leisure time taking soundings and bearings, making astronomical observations to determine longitude and latitude, and measuring shorelines.

French units

The French catheter scale, used for measuring the diameters of medical catheters.

Gross leasable area

The Building Owners and Managers Association has established a standard with American National Standards Institute, ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996 for measuring floor area and calculating gross leasable area and loss factor.

Harold Agnew

With Alvarez and Lawrence H. Johnson, Agnew had devised a method for measuring the yield of the nuclear blast by dropping pressure gauges on parachutes and telemetering the readings back to the plane.

Hathersage

Stones in the churchyard mark what is known as the grave of Little John, where in 1780 James Shuttleworth claims to have unearthed a thigh bone measuring 72.39 cm.

History of Rajkot

On January 26, 2001 a devastating earthquake centred near Bhuj, measuring 6.9 on the richter scale, struck the city.

Honda Prelude

"It is," wrote Brock Yates for Motor Trend, "by any sane measurement, a splendid automobile. The machine, like all Hondas, embodies fabrication that is, in my opinion, surpassed only by the narrowest of margins by Mercedes-Benz. It is a relatively powerful little automobile by anybody's standards."Motor Trend measuring an early Prelude completing the quarter-mile in 18.8 seconds at 70 mph.

John August Anderson

His most notable contribution was his adaptation of the Michelson's interferometer technique for measuring close double stars.

John Viriamu Jones

John Viriamu Jones, FRS (2 January 1856 – 1 June 1901), was a British scientist, who worked on measuring the ohm, and an educationalist who was instrumental in establishing the University of Sheffield and Cardiff University.

Kaunos

In De architectura by the famous Roman architect Vitruvius it is stated that wind measuring platforms were used to plan streets in accordance with the prevailing wind direction, in order to keep the air in cities clean.

Kistler

Kistler Group, sensors and sensor electronics for measuring pressure, force, torque and acceleration

Knitta Please

For another large project, the group tagged all 25 trees in the median of Allen Parkway in Houston for the annual Art Car parade in May 2006, wrapping them in blankets measuring two feet tall by two-and-a-half feet long.

Mary Carskadon

Along with Dement, she developed the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) used to clinically determine sleepiness in sleep disordered patients, particularly by measuring daytime sleep onset latency.

Matador Automatic Radar Control

AN/MSQ-1A centrals were subsequently used for other missions such as measuring the location of sensor aircraft during nuclear tests, e.g., 1962 F-100F "Small Boy" testing, on the Tarawa for Operation Argus, during Operation Teapot at the Nevada Proving Ground and for ranges at Tyndall AFB, Fallon Range Training Complex, and the Tonopah Training Range.

Maxon Motor

Its main market areas are medical technology, industrial automation, security technology, measuring and testing technology, communication technology, automotive and aerospace technology.

Mec 16 SB

It is the first camera with built-in exposure meter, capable of measuring the light through the lens, the so called Through-the-lens metering (TTL).

Neuroscience and race

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures the brain activity through measuring the blood oxygen level in the brain.

Prince Alfred Hamlet

While Goosen was busy measuring out his plots, Queen Victoria's son Prince Alfred visited the Cape Colony.

Public bad

Most "green economists" advise measuring such impacts back to the present from the seventh generation.

Pupilometer

Alternatively, a pupilometer is a type of pupil response monitor—a monocular device measuring the amount of dilation of the pupil in response to a visual stimulus.

Reactimeter

A reactimeter is a diagnostic device used in nuclear power plants (and other nuclear applications) for measuring the reactivity (in inhours) of fissile materials as they approach criticality.

RECCO

During the northern-hemisphere winter of 1978/1979 Magnus worked in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, painstakingly conducting an experiment to measuring radio frequency penetration of snow.

Reddish North railway station

Although the original mileposts along this section were maintained by the Great Central Railway, the mileages are measured from Rowsley on the Midland Railway line, contrary to the latter's normal practice of measuring from St Pancras.

Richard Christopher Carrington

Carrington rotation is a system for measuring solar longitude based on his observations of the low-latitude solar rotation rate.

Scutellinia scutellata

 scutellata has asci of approximately 300 µm by 25 µm in size, and releases elliptical spores measuring 18 to 19 µm by 10 to 12 µm.

Sidney H. Liebson

At a time when electronics had not been able to make measurements with nanosecond accuracy, he developed several techniques to accomplish this accuracy for measuring organic fluorescence decay times and organic scintillation pulse widths by indirect means.

Spacecraft naming

Maria Zuber, principal investigator on the mission commented on the student's research before selecting the names and its appropriateness for a mission measuring gravity.

SPEC XPC

In 1993, the XPC project group developed Xmark93, a standardized benchmarking tool for measuring the performance of computer systems running the X Window System.

Sphagnum palustre

In a project called Mossclone which is part of the 7th framework program of the European Union the peat moss Shagnum palustre will be multiplied in moss bioreactors to create a measuring tool to track air quality in Europe.

Testwell CTC++

Testwell CTC++ Test Coverage Analyzer for C and C++ is a tool for measuring Code Coverage (also called Test Coverage) for software written in C and C++.

Tin Mine Falls

If we additionally assume that the image plane is perpendicular to the ground plane (an imaginary plane Tangential to the surface of the Earth), and that the waterfall flows on a plane that is parallel to the image plane, we can estimate the height by measuring the vertical separation of waterfall head and base in

Torne Valley

By measuring the length of the arc, Maupertuis' team was able to prove that the Earth is, indeed, flattened at the poles as sir Isaac Newton had predicted.

Total organic carbon

Another variant employs acidification of the sample to evolve carbon dioxide and measuring it as inorganic carbon (IC), then oxidizing and measuring the remaining non-purgeable organic carbon (NPOC).

Type 7103 DSRV

A 1954 Shanghai Jiaotong University graduate, Professor Zhu was in charge of some of the tests of Type 091 submarine, the first Chinese nuclear submarine in the 1960s, and had successfully developed some subsystems used on the SSN, such as the underwater autopilot, reverse thruster controlling system, and resistance measuring system.

Ulmus glabra 'Lutescens'

There are two notable TROBI Champion trees in England, at Pickering Park, Anlaby, measuring 16 m high by 79 cm d.b.h. in 2004, and in Dyke Road Place, Brighton, 16 m high by 76 cm d.b.h. in 2006.

Villa de Merlo

"El Algarrobo Abuelo" ("the Grandfather Carob Tree") is a specimen more than a thousand years old and measuring more than 6 meters.


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