Flat knitting.

Flat knitting is usually used to knit flat pieces like scarves, blankets, afghans, and the backs and fronts of sweaters.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

* 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.

* Flat Finish-This finish is generally used on ceilings or walls that are in bad shape.

Flat belt on a belt pulley

Post Office Engineers inspect Marconi Company | Marconi's equipment on Flat Holm, May 1897

A pair of masts about high were erected, at Lavernock Point and on Flat Holm.

* Flat wart ( Verruca plana ), a small, smooth flattened wart, flesh-coloured, which can occur in large numbers ; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees ;

* January 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Flat weighting: In a noise-measuring set, a noise weighting based on an amplitude-frequency characteristic that is flat over a frequency range that must be stated.

Competition on the goldfields, particularly resentment among white miners towards the successes of Chinese miners, led to tensions between groups and eventually a series of significant protests and riots, including the Buckland Riot in 1857 and the Lambing Flat Riots between 1860 and 1861.

The band released three more singles, " Dark Entries ", " Terror Couple Kill Colonel " and " Telegram Sam " — originally written by glam rock pioneers T. Rex — before the debut of their first album In the Flat Field in 1980 on 4AD.

Settlements of the Gold Rush era, such as Portuguese Flat on the Sacramento River, sprang into existence and then faded.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

* Operas based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " include those by Samuel Adler and by Stanford Beckler .< ref >

Two Vliet-penned numbers on the Bongo Fury album are Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top and Man With The Woman Head.

Flat races can be run under varying distances and on different terms.

It went on the South side of Cedar Mountain, across Buckhorn Flat, passed the Red Seeps to Huntington Creek, crossing about a mile below where the present bridge crosses ; thence to Cottonwood Creek.

The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge (" Flat Stone Gorge "), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.

The highest point is believed to be Thorny Flat on Cheat Mountain in the northwestern part of the county.

April 1, 1866 marked the first cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail, which originated at Cardwell's Flat, near the present Cuero.

After gold was discovered in 1862 on Whiskey Flat, it has been estimated that within ten days 1, 000 miners were camped along Canyon Creek.

There is a cleared area for camping at Maxwells Flat on the Causeway Road, and a long drop toilet.

; The Starlights Trail: Nattai Road Park Entrance to Emmetts Flat ( a good camp site on the river without facilities ) on the Nattai River.

This compatibility along with other advantages led to widespread acceptance in the PC industry over other competing digital standards such as Plug and Display ( P & D ) and Digital Flat Panel ( DFP ).

The villages of Flat Rock and the town of Laurel Park, are the other two municipalities in the county.

Mills River and Flat Rock are the newest and Flat Rock use the Mayor / counsel system, whereas the other four municipalities use a counsel / manager system.

The other incorporations — particularly Mills River and Flat Rock — were created for the purpose of preserving specific cultural / historic areas, and to prevent annexation by adjoining towns and cities.

Also located in County Kildare are two other courses, Punchestown Racecourse, home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland, and Naas Racecourse, which runs both National Hunt and Flat meetings and is used by top race horse trainers as a test for horses preparing for the Cheltenham festival.

Several other trails intersected this road, and led to the growth settlement villages such as Pine Knot, Dripping Springs / Coolidge, and Flat Rock.

When The Earth Was Flat: Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters.

The racial makeup of Rail Road Flat was 411 ( 86. 5 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 15 ( 3. 2 %) Native American, 4 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 2 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 9 ( 1. 9 %) from other races, and 34 ( 7. 2 %) from two or more races.

On the other side of the Huron River, the township is bordered by Wayne County's Brownstown Township, Rockwood, and Flat Rock.

John Green constructed a sawmill on the Flat River that is credited for attracting other settlers.

The other zip code ( 48134 ) includes a small portion of the southwest corner of Woodhaven and is shared with Flat Rock.

Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south end of Main Street, but later merged secondary-school operations with four other area schools ( Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville ) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School.

Nick Gravenites, of Big Brother and the Holding Company, paid Haggard a tongue-in-cheek tribute with the song, " I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle ," later covered by other artists including Pure Prairie League.

Flat dermal melanophores will often overlay other chromatophores so when the pigment is dispersed throughout the cell the skin appears dark.

** Flat engine, two banks of cylinders directly opposite each other on either side of the crankshaft.

Flat bottomed scows, on the other hand, could navigate shallow waters, and could even be beached for loading and unloading ; this made them very useful for moving cargo from inland regions unreachable by keelboat to deeper waters where keelboats could reach.

His Department introduced a system of Policy Directions to the telecoms regulator mandating, amongst other things, Flat Rate Internet Access.

Flat collars are commonly used in clicker training and other non-correction-based training, such as puppy kindergarten.

File: Dive hand signal Time up. png | Time up-time to turn the dive and start heading back: Flat hand held roughly horizontal with tips of other flat hand's fingers touching the palm at right angles

The University of Alaska Fairbanks ( UAF ) is home to the noted Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat Research Range presently the only collegiate rocket test range in the U. S. ( The California Institute of Technology and other colleges formerly had them.

Flat bones house the brain, spinal cord, and other vital organs.