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    Flash back to 1946 in an old farmhouse on a vast piece of wooded land on the outskirts of St. Elizabeth, Missouri. As you approach the home, gritty music flows through the windows of the center room where young children crowd around a record player; more specifically, a Victrola. Leona Tappehorn, the wife of the house, tries to keep peace amongst her young Twehus grandchildren as they bicker over who gets to play their favorite record next. This exact scene is where my family’s heirloom got most

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    like to be Thomas Edison? Did his life have happy and enjoyable moments? Well, of course it did! Like that time when he invented the lightbulb, and all of his co-workers were amazed by its long-lasting glow. And also that time when he invented the phonograph, the first ever device to be able to record sound. Those moments made him quite proud of himself. Did his life have frustrating and irritating moments? Yes! Like that time when he was trying to invent a light bulb, but all he could achieve for a

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    Introduction Building your vinyl collection is an exciting hobby There is a plethora of ways to get out there and build your collecting, including your local record stores, big box retailers who are now selling vinyl, garage sales, online stores, thrift shops and I can go on forever!! It seems that just about everywhere is selling vinyl records. Over the last few years’ millions of brand new vinyl has been pressed with the numbers continuing to climb upwards. The few big box music retailers have

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    The history of DJ’ing is a long path all the way back to the early 1900’s. People had stated to discover that you could have the same effect on a crowd as bands and orchestras but only some sound equipment and songs by yourself. Many people have no idea how long DJ’s have been influencing the music industry and what is to be played on radio stations worldwide. The first known disc-jockey took his place in history in 1909. Ray Newby of California played records from a small transmitter while he was

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    Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847, invented many things, including the phonograph in 1877. In 1888 Edison announced that he was working on “an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.” Some point between May and August of 1891, the kinetiscope was complete. The kinetiscope was a cabinet with a peephole to watch min films playing inside that were about 90 seconds long. The customer would only have to drop a penny in the slot and look through the viewfinder at the image

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    The development of the phonograph is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight. The first rudimentary machine was for recording and playing back sounds. The way it all started out was using paper strips to make a record of telegraph messages. By attaching a needle to the back of the diaphragm and mounting it above rollers for the paper strips, then putting sound to the into the mouthpiece causes the diaphragm to move. After, this causes the needle to inscribe squiggled indentations into the

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    the block making it sprays fuel exactly at the hole. He also taught the trainee about the proper timing of the valve and fuel injector, and also the sequence of firing inside the engine cylinders. For a 4-cylinder engine, order of firing was 1-3-2-4.For a 6-cylinder engine, firing was 1-4-2-6-3-5. And for an 8-cylinder, v-type engine, firing was 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2. These firing orders were not constant at all engines; it is just only based on the trainee’s experience. Firing orders were variable and based

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    Abstract – The world can’t be imagined without IC Engines ,as their applications are wider in various fields. And mainly used input for this engines are fossil fuels. But the challenge in this is decreasing rate of resources. The fossil fuels may not be available after some years if they used in the same way .Not only the fossil but also the electric power is the non renewable energy, This paper concentrates to run the engine without fossil fuels or electricity. Keywords – IC Engines, fossil fuels

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    weight was recorded. Additionally, the weights of each cylinder used was recorded. Next, a graduated cylinder was filled with 20mL of water and unknown metal II was fully submerged in the water 3 times. Each time, the volumes were recorded and the difference between the final volume and initial volume was calculated. This test was repeated for unknown metal IV. Calculations Unknown I and V Masses Unknown I was weighed 3 times in a graduated cylinder with 20 mL of water in it. Weight 1 came out at 215

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    "Report!" commanded Hauyne, steadying herself on the ship's navigation console. A spark jumped from the ceiling while more and more lights began to cut out. Their battered cruiser swayed precariously, side to side, as it hurtled through the cold, starry, upper atmosphere. "A-just a small engine fire! Shields barely stable. Hull is holding," Vermarine shouted her answer from the reactor room toward the back of the ship. The inner framework of the fuselage violently creaked and the metal plating rattled

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