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    A mechanically powered flashlight is a flashlight that is powered by electricity generated by the muscle power of the user, so it does not need replacement...
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    A torch is a stick with combustible material at one end which can be used as a light source or to set something on fire. Torches have been used throughout...
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    pressurized liquid fuel cutting torches, usually using gasoline (petrol). These are used for their increased cutting power over gaseous fuel systems and...
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    Flashlight (redirect from Pocket torch)
    A flashlight (US English) or electric torch (Commonwealth English), usually shortened to torch, is a portable hand-held electric lamp. Formerly, the light...
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  • The Human Torch, also known as Jim Hammond, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer and artist...
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  • torch. Weighing about 1 kg (2 lb), the clockwork torch incorporates two improvements over the clockwork radio. First, the on/off switch mechanically halts...
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    The simplest type of linear alternator is the mechanically powered flashlight (shake type). This is a torch (UK) or flashlight (USA) which contains a coil...
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  • multi-axis machines, the movement of the axes is powered by electric motors and synchronized to guide the torch and the pipe being cut along a programmed path...
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    definition of stroboscope at Wiktionary How the Germans Measured Milliseconds MECHANICALLY - Smarter Every Day 283 Demonstration of Phenakistoscope and Stroboscope...
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    Torch Technologies is an employee-owned system engineering, applied science, modeling & simulation and information technology business. Its primary customers...
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    A rushlight is a type of candle or miniature torch formed by soaking the dried pith of the rush plant in fat or grease. For several centuries, rushlights...
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    outdoors or in drafty interiors. Lanterns may also be used for signaling, as torches, or as general light-sources outdoors. The lantern enclosure was primarily...
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    temperature, protects the inner bulb from contamination, and makes the bulb mechanically more similar to a conventional lamp. Standard and halogen incandescent...
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    uninterruptible power supply; previously it had only been off the grid for short periods of time (e.g. a week in 1937 for a renovation and the odd power outage)...
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    long thin sliver/chip or plate of wood, most commonly used as a miniature torch for makeshift lighting of the interiors of buildings in the history of Russia...
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    type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp energized by radio frequency (RF) power. They are distinct from the novelty plasma lamps that were popular in the...
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    distance automatically, mostly based on solenoids. In one of the simplest mechanically-regulated forms (which was soon superseded by more smoothly acting devices)...
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    annoying. In the 1960s, small nightlights appeared that featured a low-power electroluminescent panel emitting soft green or blue light; similar lights...
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    railroad flares, they are commonly used to perform hand signals or used as torches in rail transport applications. Railroad flares can burn for at least 10...
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    small phosphor coated glass beads. A 5–14 kV transformer produces a low power gas discharge in the bead filled cavity, producing filaments of light that...
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    read in the dark. Radioluminescence is also sometimes seen around high-power radiation sources, such as nuclear reactors and radioisotopes. Radioluminescence...
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    flash rates, but drastically reduces the lifetime of the flash tube if powered for significant periods of time. Such strobes require a form of current...
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  • tube – Physics apparatus for demonstrating acoustic standing waves in a tube Torch – Stick with a flaming end used as a source of light Annihilation – Collision...
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