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replica and Novelty
In a recent ( 2002 ) restaging of the Rainhill Trials using replica engines, neither Sans Pareil ( 11 out of 20 runs ) nor Novelty ( 10 out of 20 runs ) completed the course.
Novelty attractions are oddities such as the " biggest ball of twine " in Cawker City, Kansas, the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, or Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska where old cars serve in the place of stones in a replica of Stonehenge.
A modern replica of Novelty ( locomotive ) | Novelty, the first tank locomotive
Cylinder on replica of Novelty
For the Rocket 150 event in 1980, a completely new replica of Novelty was constructed by Locomotion Enterprises in the Springwell Workshop of the Bowes Railway.
For the BBC TV programme " Timewatch – Rocket and its Rivals " the replica of Novelty was transported to the National Railway Museum in York.
For the Restaging, the replica of Novelty was too slow to meet the requirements of the original trials and did not complete the course.
With all the obvious differences between the original and the replica, added to the fact that the locomotive crew used had only four days experience of operating the locomotive, it cannot be said that in this restaging of the trial the replica of Novelty gave the performance that the original could have achieved if more time had been made available in 1829.

replica and was
A replica of two coaches made in England for the Belmont Club in the East, and matchless west of the Rockies, it was the despair of whips on the Santa Cruz run.
This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.
The " Jerusalem Chamber ” is a replica of the room in Westminster Abbey in which work on the King James Version of the Bible was conducted, and it displays a collection of rare Bibles.
The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.
In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.
It was renamed after the construction of a chapel holding a replica of the Virgen de Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia.
The Engine is not a replica ( one was never built during Babbage's lifetime ); therefore this is the first one-the original.
The second trophy was a replica of the first, and was last used in 1910 before being presented to the FA's long-serving president Lord Kinnaird.
This trophy still exists but is now too fragile to be used, so an exact replica was made by Toye, Kenning and Spencer and has been in use since the 1992 final.
An otherwise identical, but smaller replica was also made by Fattorini, the North Wales Coast FA Cup trophy, and is contested annually by members of that regional Association.
It was to have the same dimensions on the field, include a new Green Monster, basically be a replica of the current park, but be modernized to replace some of the old features of Fenway Park.
A full-size replica of Godzilla's foot was also built, albeit all of the scenes in which it is used were removed from the American version ( the sole exception being a shot of the foot crushing a row of parked cars during the attack on the nuclear power plant ).
* All shots which employed a life-size replica of Godzilla's foot ( mostly seen near the end ); only one shot of the big foot crushing parked cars during the nuclear power plant scene was kept.
At the event a full-size working replica of the Rocket was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfield Market Festival.
In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.
HM Bark Endeavour Replica | Endeavour replica in Cooktown, Queensland harbour — anchored where the original Endeavour was beached for 7 weeks in 1770.
* A replica of the Lighthouse of Alexandria was constructed in the Window of the World Cultural Park in Shenzhen, China.
In 1892-93 a full size near replica of the Gokstad ship, the viking, built by the Norwegian Magnus Andersen in Bergen. It was used to sail the Atlantic. It had a deeper keel with 1. 5m draught to stiffen the hull and a range of non authentic triangular sails to help performance and big fenders on each gunwhale filled with reindeer hair to give extra bouyancy in case of swamping.
A replica of the Gokstad ship, named Viking was sailed across the Atlantic to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893
One replica longship covered in a single day, and another re-creator was able to go faster than in his longship.
Lambda phage was discovered by Esther Lederberg in 1950 when it was noticed that a colony produced by replica plating was " nibbled and plaqued ".
For the process, a replica of his skull was created from radiographs.

replica and built
While the Khmer built a standard brick tower, Po Klaung Garai directed his people to build an impressive replica of paper and wood.
There used to be an exact replica built by Leitch at Stamford Bridge which had long been demolished.
On the 13 January 2011, the Computer Conservation Society announced that it had commissioned a working replica of EDSAC, to be built at The National Museum of Computing ( TNMoC ) in Bletchley Park.
To help promote the film abroad, Caprino and Sandemose built a full scale replica of Il Tempo Gigante that is legal for public roads, but is usually exposited at Hunderfossen Familiepark.
The current tower is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica built in Paris ; the first was constructed of wood and later destroyed by a tornado.
It is thought that the first example of a working model tramcar in the UK built by an amateur for fun was in 1929, when Frank E. Wilson created a replica of London County Council Tramways E class car 444 in 1: 16 scale, which he demonstrated at an early Model Engineer Exhibition.
The Löwenburg (" Lions Castle ") is a replica of a medieval castle, also built during the reign of Wilhelm IX.
* Gottorf Castle ( built 1161 ), former residence of the dukes, with the baroque Neuwerk garden, containing a replica of the Globe of Gottorf
The site, which has seen 766, 999 people visit from 2000 through 2010, features restored sentry posts at the camp entrance, a replica of a camp guard tower built in 2005, a self-guided tour road, and informational markers.
Paramount wanted $ 40, 000 for a license to reproduce a bust of Kirk, but the city instead set a plaque and built a replica of the Enterprise ( named the " USS Riverside "), and the Riverside Area Community Club holds an annual " Trek Fest " in anticipation of Kirk's birthday.
He dismantled a brass clock and built a wooden replica that, by all accounts, worked " well enough ", and he learned to draw, making his own materials from coal, chalk and ruddle ( Iron ore ).
In 2004, a replica of the Maine building was built on the campus.
A modern replica, also called the Globe, has been built near the original site.
A replica of the old building's cupola was built to stand in the Preakness winner's circle in the infield.
** Built: France 1534 ; given in 1535 to Cartier by the King of France ; used in the 1535 – 1536 and 1541 – 1542 voyages ; replica 1967 built for " Expo 67 " in Montréal ; abandoned in 2001 from Saint-Charles River ( Québec City )
However, in 1981 engineer Andre Sleewyck built his own replica, replacing the square-toothed gear designs of da Vinci with the triangular, pointed teeth found in the Antikythera mechanism.
When it appeared to the couple that they were financially successful, they built a home in Chicago which was a replica of their rented home, complete to building it on the lot next door.
A replica of Stonehenge built by Samuel Hill as a monument to local men killed in World War I called Maryhill Stonehenge.
A replica of Helen's Tower was built on the Somme battlefield as Northern Ireland's national war memorial.

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