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American wire gauge ( AWG ), also known as the Brown & Sharpe wire gauge, is a standardized wire gauge system used since 1857 predominantly in the United States and Canada for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous, electrically conducting wire .< ref >< abbr title =" American Society for Testing And Materials "> ASTM </ abbr > Standard B 258-02, Standard specification for standard nominal diameters and cross-sectional areas of AWG sizes of solid round wires used as electrical conductors, ASTM International, 2002 </ ref > The cross-sectional area of each gauge is an important factor for determining its current-carrying capacity.
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Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Canadian newspapers also received much of their international content from American press agencies, therefore it was much easier for editorial staff to leave the spellings from the wire services as provided.
The team went down to the wire with the Boston Red Sox, winning a one-game playoff, the first in American League history, to go to the World Series.
Conductor sizes range from 12 mm < sup > 2 </ sup > (# 6 American wire gauge ) to 750 mm < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 1, 590, 000 circular mils area ), with varying resistance and current-carrying capacity.
Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.
The American Steel and Wire Company established in 1899 employed vertical integration: it controlled all aspects of production from producing the steel rods to making many different wire and nail products from the same steel ; although later part of U. S. Steel, the production of barbed wire would still be a major source of revenue
For this reason, some historians have dated the end of the Old West era of American history to the invention and subsequent proliferation of barbed wire.
* Biography of John W. Gates, barbed wire promoter who monopolized the industry with the American Steel and Wire Company, accessed March 29, 2006
* Barbed wire changes life on the American Great Plains
Barbed wire became common in the American West in the 1870s and in World War I first found wide use in fortifications.
The suburban Long Island electrical substation is fed by about 600-meter-long underground cable system consists of about 99 miles of high-temperature superconductor wire manufactured by American Superconductor, installed underground and chilled with liquid nitrogen greatly reducing the costly right-of-way required to deliver additional power.
The most common type of wire paper clip still in use, the Gem paper clip, was never patented, but it was most likely in production in Britain already in the early 1870s by " The Gem Manufacturing Company ", according to the American expert on technological innovations, Professor Henry J. Petroski.
However, as early as 07: 35, the third battalion 726th Grenadier Regiment, defending Draw F-1 on Fox Green beach, was reporting that 100 – 200 American troops had penetrated the front, with troops inside the wire at WN-62 and WN-61 attacking the Germans from the rear.
Such tools were used in large numbers in American telephone exchanges in the last third of the 20th century, usually with a bigger bit to handle 22 or 24 AWG wire rather than the smaller 28 or 30 AWG used in circuit boards and backplanes.
As ERPI began to wire theaters around Europe, Tobis-Klangfilm claimed that the Western Electric system infringed on the Tri-Ergon patents, stalling the introduction of American technology in many places.
In the end, TV news brought an end to most afternoon papers, but up until the 1970s, Chicago had a competitive journalistic scene unmatched by most other American cities, five daily newspapers and four wire services in competition, and none more competitive than Chicago's American.
The first wire recorder was the Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone of the late 1890s, and wire recorders for law / office dictation and telephone recording were made almost continuously by various companies ( mainly the American Telegraphone Company ) through the 1920s and 1930s.
IIT housed many research organizations: IIT Research Institute ( formerly Armour Research Foundation and birthplace of magnetic recording wire and tape as well as audio and video cassettes ), the Institute of Gas Technology, and the American Association of Railroads, among others.
By 1900, the entire American telephone line network was either twisted pair or open wire with transposition to guard against interference.
Unlike American style oboe reeds, cor anglais reeds typically have wire at the base, approximately 5 millimeters from the top of the string used to attach the cane to the staple.
Here Historical Columbia | Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west ; she holds a school book.
Telephone tapping ( also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English ) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means.
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Eugene Bourdon patented his gauge in France in 1849, and it was widely adopted because of its superior sensitivity, linearity, and accuracy ; Edward Ashcroft purchased Bourdon's American patent rights in 1852 and became a major manufacturer of gauges.
The American gauges converged over time as the advantages of equipment interchange became increasingly apparent ; notably, the South's broad gauge system was converted to be compatible with standard gauge over two days, beginning May 31, 1886.
Although Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector within the American economy, the index's performance continues to be influenced by not only corporate and economic reports, but also by domestic and foreign political events such as war and terrorism, as well as by natural disasters that could potentially lead to economic harm.
To gauge the feeling of the Vichy French forces, Murphy was appointed to the American consulate in Algeria.
In late 1973, the communists issued Resolution 21, which called for “ strategic raids ” against South Vietnam to gain territory and to gauge the reaction of Thiệu and the American government.
In contrast, standard-gauge railways in North American and elsewhere must use special double-stack cars to lower the center of gravity and reduce the loading gauge requirements.
In the 1870s, mainly between 1872 and 1874, Canadian broad-gauge lines were changed to standard gauge to facilitate interchange and the exchange of rolling stock with American railroads.
Following the American Civil War, trade between the South and North grew and the break of gauge became a major economic nuisance.
When American railroads ' track extended to the point that they began to interconnect, it became clear that a single nationwide gauge was desirable.
A number of North American streetcar lines intentionally varied from standard gauge.
They also build 1: 29 scale North American models in live steam and electric under the AML brand, as well as British live steam and electric models in 1: 19th scale called 16mm and Isle of Man live steam and electric models in 1: 20. 3 scale-the Isle of Man uses three foot gauge track, the same width as the dominant US Colorado narrow gauge.
There is a small following of American OO scale / gauge today.
Economic instabilities in both the US and Japan have made it hard to gauge the precise consequences of digisubs on the commercial industry, as well, though several Japanese and North American anime studios and distribution companies have pointed to fansubbing as drawing a large amount of profit away from them.
In North America conductors are measured by American wire gauge for smaller ones, and circular mils for larger ones.
The American wire gauge article contains a table showing allowable ampacities for a variety of copper wire sizes.
The gauge layout and interior styling in the Series 3 was only changed for North American versions.
The American Thread Company built a factory with a narrow gauge industrial railway in 1901-1902, moving its equipment from Willimantic, Connecticut.
** American wire gauge, a measurement of diameter of a wire
* American wire gauge, a standardized sizing system for electrically conducting wire
They were reasonably popular on American narrow gauge railroads.
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