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  • A centrifugal gun is a type of rapid-fire projectile accelerator, like a machine gun but operating on a different principle. Centrifugal guns use a rapidly...
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    The Winans Steam Gun was a steam-powered centrifugal gun used during the American Civil War, which used centrifugal forces (rather than gunpowder) to propel...
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  • frame) Centrifugal governor Centrifugal gun Centrifugal micro-fluidic biochip Centrifugal pump Centrifugal railway Centrifugal switch Centrifugal-type supercharger...
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    Steam Gun of 1858–1861 was a steam-powered centrifugal gun used during the American Civil War by the Confederates. It used steam power and centrifugal forces...
    5 KB (656 words) - 15:05, 4 March 2022
  • The gun had a cast iron receiver. The sole exemplar built was not used in combat, not having been sufficiently perfected. Agar gun Centrifugal gun Confederate...
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  • (200 kg), with a peak centrifugal acceleration of approximately 10,000 g. Historical predecessors of this system include centrifugal guns. If successful, the...
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  • Historical Society states that all other exemplars were destroyed. Centrifugal gun – Projectile Accelerator (actively considered for aircraft armament...
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  • web discussion forum DREAD (risk assessment model) Dread, a model of centrifugal gun Dreadlocks, a hairstyle also known as dreads Anti Dread, Polish punk...
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    Atlatl Bow and arrow Hawaiian sling Slingshot Swiss arrow Trebuchet Centrifugal gun "Slingshot definition and meaning". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved 5...
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    pounds (2.0 kg) bales of cannabis ready to launch. Aircraft catapult Centrifugal gun List of siege engines Mangonel Mass driver National Catapult Contest...
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    The Mark 12 5"/38-caliber gun was a United States dual-purpose naval gun, but also installed in single-purpose mounts on a handful of ships. The 38-caliber...
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    that Millikan had attempted to steal another inventor's design for a centrifugal gun in order to profit personally. Wood recommended termination of Millikan's...
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    Smoothbore (redirect from Smoothbore gun)
    fires multiple, round shot; firing out of a rifled barrel would impart centrifugal forces that result a doughnut-shaped pattern of shot (with a high projectile...
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    Artillery (redirect from Artillery gun)
    and escapement (i.e. 'clockwork'), Junghans used centrifugal force and gears, and Dixi used centrifugal force and balls. From about 1980, electronic time...
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    laws are transformed to a rotating frame of reference, the Coriolis and centrifugal accelerations appear. When applied to objects with masses, the respective...
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    during the war, had attempted to steal another inventor's design for a centrifugal gun in order to profit personally. Wood recommended termination of Millikan's...
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  • investigated myths inspired by reports of gun owners attempting to use their ovens to store guns and ammunition since a proper gun cabinet is not available—and then...
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    Rifling (redirect from Rifled gun)
    rotational speed can exceed the bullet's designed limits and the resulting centrifugal force can cause the bullet to disintegrate radially during flight. A...
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  • forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, would result in the cable...
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  • a straight line (rectilinear acceleration); two involving rotation: centrifugal force and Coriolis effect and a fourth, called the Euler force, caused...
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