• electrical engineering, a stepping switch or stepping relay, also known as a uniselector, is an electromechanical device that switches an input signal path...
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    World War II. The machine was an electromechanical device that used stepping-switches to encrypt the most sensitive diplomatic traffic. All messages were...
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    The Strowger switch is the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger...
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    digits caused the shaft of the central contact "hand" of the stepping switch to first step (ratchet) up one level for each pulse in the first digit and...
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    switch Slotted optical switch Stepping switch Strowger switch Thermal switch Time switch Touch switch Transfer switch Zero speed switch Circuit breaker Commutator...
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    device Rotary system – Electromechanical telephone switch Stepping switch – Electromechanical multi-pole switch controlled by a chain of pulses v t e...
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  • Schafer said. The Schafer Automation System used a series of relays and stepping switches and a clock that allowed programmers to back-time music to join network...
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    The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the...
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    Nixie tube (redirect from Beam-X Switch)
    by wiring the outputs of stepping switches to indicator bulbs. Later, a few vintage clocks even used a form of stepping switch to drive Nixie tubes. Nixie...
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    position at one given step. Motors vary in size, speed, step resolution, and torque. Switched reluctance motors are very large stepping motors with a reduced...
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    cipher machine, even though the mechanism used by PURPLE, telephone stepping switches, was substantially different from other machines (such as the wired...
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    a crossbar switch (cross-point switch, matrix switch) is a collection of switches arranged in a matrix configuration. A crossbar switch has multiple...
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    Relay (redirect from Relay switch)
    operations. Analogue switch Buchholz relay Dry contact Flyback diode Nanoelectromechanical relay Race condition Stepping switch Wire spring relay "The...
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  • analysis, "hot spot" detection, loop detection or similar. Stepping (Visual Studio) Overview of stepping support in Microsoft Corporation's IDE, Visual Studio...
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    switch panel'. These signals from the wheel simulators could be specified as stepping on with each new pass of the message tape or not. The K2 switch...
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  • song by Latto from 777 (2022) Steppers (music), a style of reggae SXS or Strowger switch, an early type of stepping switch This disambiguation page lists...
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    current circuits (three-wire system) to actuate stepping motors in a vertical and horizontal (rotational) switch arrangement. Operating the dial error-free...
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  • was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in May 2025, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version expected the following...
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  • detector MRI scanner Particle accelerator Read/write head Relay Solenoid Stepping switch Tape head Wikimedia Commons has media related to Field magnet. Rotor...
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    Predictor Mechatronics Power engineering Relay Robotics SAW filter Stepping switch Solenoid valve Thermostat Torpedo Data Computer Unit record equipment...
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  • 2017 "Step by Step", a theme song from the anime Case Closed, 1996 Strowger switch or step-by-step, an early electromechanical telephone switching system...
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    used to approximate binary cellular switches in response to chemical signals. For a smooth approximation to the step function, one can use the logistic...
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    control" switches, where the switching elements were controlled directly by the customer's dial, such as the Step by Step switch. The term marker came from...
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    A dead man's switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss...
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    to goose-step into line". Financial Times. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018. "Hong Kong police switch to Chinese-style goose-stepping 'to show patriotism'"...
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    A railroad switch (AE), turnout, or (set of) points (CE) is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such...
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  • chose to base their cipher machine on a different technology, using a stepping switch rather than several rotors. The LA code was a low-grade code for consular...
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    A switched-mode power supply (SMPS), also called switching-mode power supply, switch-mode power supply, switched power supply, or simply switcher, is...
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  • or 200 outputs, similar to a stepping switch. The No. 1 Crossbar pioneered the link principle, with each individual switch able to handle as many phone...
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    dialing) Crossbar switch Dial tone Direct distance dialing (DDD) History of the telephone Phoneword Single-frequency signaling Stepping switch Telephone keypad...
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