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    The Blish lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by John Bell Blish based upon his assumption that under extreme pressures, certain dissimilar metals...
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  • since the 1930s and still unsolved. The Blish Lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by John Bell Blish based upon his observation that under extreme...
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    John Bell Blish (September 8, 1860 – December 22, 1921) was an American inventor known primarily for developing the Blish lock, used in the Thompson submachine...
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    complexity of a recoil or gas-operated reloading mechanism. Blish's design (then known as the Blish Lock) was based on the supposed adhesion of inclined metal...
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    Close-quarters, personal security Blowback, blish lock  United States pplicker (firearms) Blowback, blish lock Auto-Ordnance Company .45 ACP 150 700 1921...
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    investor Thomas Ryan. In 1915 Thompson had found the Blish Lock patent of Commander John Blish, which was the operating principle of the first prototypes...
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  • †unless using a system that delays rearward move or forward move: locking rollers, Blish lock, buffer or cyclic rate reducer. The Beretta 1935 was inspired...
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  • pressure is slowly released the CO2 sublimates, thereby preventing stiction. Blish lock "Stiction". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 23 May 2012. "Stiction, n." The...
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    Thompson, its operating principle was delayed blowback, but the Thompson's Blish lock system was far less mechanically effective and so, like a simple blowback...
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    delayed blowback much like the later Thompson Autorifle utilising the Blish lock. In this system there was no recoiling barrel nor gas piston as with other...
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    Schwarzlose MG M.07/12, Luger rifle and Pedersen rifle Blish Lock: early Thompson submachine guns Hesitation locked: Remington Model 51 and R51 pistols Chamber-ring...
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    The Thompson Autorifle was a semi-automatic rifle that used a Blish Lock to delay the action of the weapon. It was chambered in .30-06, with the 1923 model...
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    Danny "the Damaja" Basham, professional wrestler John Bell Blish, inventor of the 'Blish Lock' component of the Thompson submachine gun. Harold Bower, American...
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    Mass. Comdr. Blish was detached 29 October 1919. In addition to his naval career, he invented the "Blish sounding tube" and the Blish lock, used in the...
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    Action Cartridge Variants Notes Thompson  United States 1942 Blowback, "Blish Lock" .45 ACP Model 1928 Model 1928A1 M1 M1A1 Sten  United Kingdom  Canada...
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  • the huge Trisolaran fleet approaches Earth after using supertechnology to lock down Earth's fundamental science. The subsequent books in the Remembrance...
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  • The Star Trek franchise's first tie-in publications were James Blish's 1967 volume of episode novelizations and Mack Reynolds's 1968 young adult novel...
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    haunt the Kenton Theatre, the family house and St Mary's churchyard. James Blish (1921–1975), American science fiction writer, lived in Henley from 1968...
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  • Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, used to describe James Blish's 1956 story They Shall Have Stars, which expanded on the story introduced...
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    this deal is another book within his Old Man's War universe, the sequel to Lock In (a near-future thriller published by Scalzi in 2014) titled Head On, a...
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  • collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction. James Blish called the stories "utter nonsense", and chastised Aldiss for ignoring basic...
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    works of science fiction, including stories by Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A distant image of Amalthea passing in...
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  • Get Out of My Sky (category Novels by James Blish)
    Out of My Sky" is a 1957 science fiction novella by American writer James Blish. It was first published by the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in January...
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  • and walks onto the thinning ice toward the car resting there. He picks the lock and opens the trunk to find the body of the missing teenager inside. He falls...
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  • barriers with an icebreaker program. Riviera is to obtain the password to the lock from Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool, the CEO of the family's corporation...
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  • present. 1959 Cities in Flight#A Clash of Cymbals/The Triumph of Time James Blish Faced with the impending end of the Universe, physicists develop a grain...
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  • meet the same fate. She marries another colonist, Marcos Ribeira, so as to lock her files from being opened. Andrew Wiggin, unbeknownst by others to be the...
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    Blish. "Dose Minimization During X-ray Inspection of Surface-Mounted Flash ICs" Archived 20 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. p. 1. Richard Blish...
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    called AVT (for Amiga Video Transceiver) was originally designed by Ben Blish-Williams (N4EJI, then AA7AS) for a custom modem attached to an Amiga computer...
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  • can be used several ways. It is wide enough to be a sling. In the James Blish written adaptation of the TOS script, Kirk employs it this way and hits...
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