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The roots of Mercedes Benz
On December 31, 1878, a guy named Karl Benz applied for a patent for a two-stroke engine design. Numerous patents had been pursued for the four stroke engine and Benz sought to patent an idea in a less crowded technological arena. In addition to Benz’ designs, several fundamental patent ideas followed for the two-stroke engine…
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Charge Controllers
VOLTAGE RATING Most solar panel arrays are designed for 12 VDC. Combinations in series could produce 24 or 36 VDC. But the better approach is to stay with a 12 volt system and charge a 12 volt battery system. a dozen 12 volt car battery array could run your refrigerator for up to a week,…
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Habitable Worlds
Other than Earth, Wikipedia lists 17 planets that could have sunshine and liquid water in our solar system, at distances ranging from 4.2 lightyears to 2500 lightyears away. If this were a complete list, we could break down our solar system into habitable areas of 2500 lightyears in diameter. We would further consider that life…
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two stroke engines
The earliest two stroke engine patent, by Karl Benz, seems to go back to 1878 in Manheim Germany. The first challenges were to compress the air and fuel mixture, to mix the air and fuel, to spark the ignition source and maintain the forward velocity of the air fuel mixture. Early two stroke engine designs…
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Browns Mill Recreation Center Open
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Stonecrest plans $2.1M purchase
The city of Stonecrest plans to buy an old Sears facility in a popular part of town and turn it into a public safety building. The City Council approved the $2.1 million purchase Thursday. https://www.ajc.com/news/local/stonecrest-plans-buy-old-sears-building-for/cWUUm4gVaWDWR6tffMoL9M/#
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Trusted Companies
It is a precious form of justice when homeowners can confront the shifty contractor. It is too bad that homeowners need to be so careful of their schemes; The owner of a defunct roofing company was arrested last week at a Gainesville bankruptcy court in front of 15-20 irate homeowners and has seen the inside…
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Free cubesheet calculator
At www.markthemover.com click the Household Inventory button to take a household inventory for moving and relocating. Whether you are using a moving company, or a container company, it is useful to make your own estimate of the weight and volume in cubic feet of your household goods. There is no obligation for using the online cubesheet calculator…
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VOIP
Loganville phone system installations from Huntsvilla Technologies in Loganville Ga feature the Vertical Wave VOIP phone systems. A revolutionary pbx or ksu style voip capable phone system features the ability to leverage investment in not only analog phone system handsets but also previous investments in VOIP handset technologies. The advantages of installing the network backbone…
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Refrigeration Packages
Behind every supermarket. or sometimes on the roof, is the machinery required to provide the refrigeration for the display cases as well as the air conditioning for the store. Many people are unaware that the systems for the majority of Walmarts throughout the United States are produced in Conyers, Ga by Hill Phoenix, a Dover…