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A third form of mooring system is the ballasted catenary configuration, created by adding multiple-tonne weights hanging from the midsection of each anchor cable in order to provide additional cable tension and therefore increase stiffness of the above-water floating structure.
Another form of analog copy protection, known as CGMS-A, is added by DVD players and digital cable / satellite boxes.
Domestic: A large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic ; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country.
Two or more wires may be wrapped concentrically, separated by insulation, to form coaxial cable.
The most common cable format is star quad, where the diagonally opposite conductors form the pairs.
A Danish engineer, Carl Emil Krarup, invented a form of continuously loaded cable which solved these problems and the cable is named for him.
A cable is most often two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly, but can also refer to a heavy strong rope.
The cable version of Fox on Demand usually runs shows within a day of their original airing, with fast forwarding capabilities disabled and the program's original advertisements as aired presented in this form for a week before direct response advertising replaces the original ads.
Coaxial connectors are designed to maintain a coaxial form across the connection and have the same well-defined impedance as the attached cable.
A series of standard types of coaxial cable were specified for military uses, in the form " RG -#" or " RG -#/ U ".
Cable modems are primarily used to deliver broadband Internet access in the form of cable Internet, taking advantage of the high bandwidth of a HFC and RFoG network.
* Aerobus, a form of transport which uses a non-typical monorail system on a cable system similar to the one used by suspension bridges
Airborne Magnetometers detect the change in the earth's magnetic field using sensors attached to the aircraft in the form of a " stinger " or by towing a magnetometer on the end of a cable.
The cable network Trio started airing the show in its original one-hour form in the early 2000s, but only the pilot and the first 69 episodes ( extending to the fourth episode of the 1970 – 1971 season ) were included in Trio's package.
In 1991 United Artists merged with their largest shareholder TCI ( Liberty Media ), to form the largest cable operator in the US.
He also led both the merger of rival cable services to form Australian Associated Press Ltd. in 1935, and the project to build a paper-mill in Tasmania, capable of processing native trees, which began in 1938.
The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta percha surrounded by strong wires.
Prior to the advent of the LPFM discussion and eventual rulemaking at the FCC, Low Power FM operations were found legally under FCC Part 15. 239 in the form of single transmitters and radiating cable operations.
Vivendi's film, television, and cable TV assets were then merged with General Electric's NBC to form NBC Universal in 2004.
However,, a majority of cable companies have chosen to extend their existing quadrature amplitude modulation-based systems to carry digital television rather than adopting any form of VSB.
Applying heat to the inner cable for soldering may weaken the steel, and although soft soldering is less strong than silver solder, a lower temperature is required to form the joint, and there is less likelihood of the inner cable being damaged as a result.

form and railway
After the canal was opened, Motala Verkstad focused on producing equipment, locomotives and rolling stock for the newly constructed railways, beginning a tradition of railway engineering that continues to this day in the form of AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning ( ASJA ) that was bought by the aeroplane manufacturer SAAB in Linköping.
By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.
The Merina royal tradition of taxes paid in the form of labor was continued under the French and used to construct a railway and roads linking key coastal cities to Antananarivo.
This was effectively a form of bankruptcy protection that allowed the railway network to continue operating despite the financial problems of the operator.
( Many railways, the world over, also cater for the needs of travellers by providing Raiway Refreshment Rooms form of restaurant at railway stations.
The former railway from the Powerhouse Museum to Lilyfield, including Pyrmont and Glebe tunnels, has been converted to form part of the Metro Light Rail line from Central station.
The ferries are jointly run by the railway companies of Tanzania and Uganda and form the chief means of transport between Tanzania and Uganda.
1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon ( MCCW ); Metro Cammell.
Trams are the second most used form of public transport in overall boardings in Melbourne after the commuter railway network, with a total of 182. 7 million passenger trips — a 4. 1 % year-on-year patronage growth — in the 2010 – 2011 year.
The most important form of public transportation in Kauniainen is the Rantarata railway, opened in 1903.
The to long roadway was a rudimentary form of railway, and operated from ca.
The cost of constructing the Shinkansen was at first estimated at nearly 200 billion yen, which was raised in the form of a government loan, railway bonds and a low-interest loan of US $ 80 million from the World Bank.
It is also reputed that it was on the platform of Sidcup railway station that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first agreed to form a band, which later became the Rolling Stones.
The navigation was reasonably successful until 1880, when railway competition arrived, in the form of the East Norfolk Railway, which followed the Bure valley.
Provision for a railway line linking North Holland and Friesland ( between Anna Paulowna and Harlingen ) had been included on the Afsluitdijk, in the form of a linear reservation, along with extra drawbridge abutments at the locks.
Marsh was issued a U. S. patent for the general idea of a rack railway in September 1861, and in January 1867 for a practical rack where the gear teeth take the form of rollers arranged like the rungs of a ladder between two L-shaped wrought-iron rails.
In the 1840s they split off their railway to form a separate company, the Ardrossan Railway, and transferred their debt to the new company.
Mickey appeared in ghost form on top of the railway bridge, giving words of encouragement.
By now a railway served the lake so the ship was delivered in kit form by rail.
The reserve takes the form of a woodland ride, with expanses of beech woods on either side of the railway line bed.
The railway brings a number of tourists to the island each year in the form of railway enthusiasts.
In addition, several sections of the WCML form part of the suburban railway systems in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, with many more smaller commuter stations, as well as providing a number of links to more rural towns.
The railway companies were strongly opposed to trade unions and two earlier attempts to form a clerks ' union had failed and, discouraged, the organisers decided by a majority of only one vote to try a third time-this time successfully.
In passing, he also noted that the cost of the railway in penny pieces, was enough to more than form a belt of pennies around the equator ; and the amount of material moved would be enough to build a wall high by one foot wide, more than three times around the equator.

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