The cylinderdesk is a desk that resembles a Bureau Mazarin or a writing table equipped with small stacked shelves in front of the user s main work surface, and a revolving cylinder part that comes down to hide and lock up the working papers when the desk is not in use. Like the rolltop desk , which was invented much later, the cylinderdesk usually has a fixed work surface the paperwork does not have to be stored before the desk is shut. Some designs, however, have the capacity to slide the desk surface out a few inches to expand the available work area. Image Cylinderdesksideinjpeg20031129.png The cylinderdesk is also called bureau Kaunitz , as it was allegedly introduced in France in the first half of the 18th century by Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz , then the ambassador of the Habsburg Habsburg Empire to the French court. Regardless of the authenticity of its origin, the French court adopted this type of desk with great enthusiasm. The difficulty of producing wooden cylinder sections which would not warp over the years ensured that such desks were reserved for the rich and the very rich. A few variants of this form have slats instead of a one piece cylinder section. The most famous cylinderdesk, and perhaps the most famous desk of all times is the Bureau du Roi manufactured for the French royalty in the 18th century. Image Cylinderdeskfrontinjpeg20031129.png References Aronson, Joseph. The Encyclopedia of Furniture , 3rd edition. New York Crown Publishers Inc., 1965. Boyce, Charles. Dictionary of Furniture . New York Facts on File Inc., 1985. ISBN 0 8160 1042 0. Brunhammer, Yvonne Monique de Fayet. Meubles et ensembles, poque Louis XVI . Paris, ditions Charles Massin, 1965. Pages 59, 60, 61, 65. De Reyni s, Nicole. Le Mobilier Domestique Vocabulaire Typologique . Paris Imprimerie Nationale, 1987. Forrest, Tim and Paul J. Atterbury consulting editor . The Bulfinch Anatomy ... 197 7. See also the list of desk forms and types . Category Desks fr Bureau cylindre ... more details
Cylinder may refer to in geometry, a three dimensional geometric shape see Cylinder geometry in algebra, the Cartesian product of a set with its superset see Cartesian product in optics a type of lens optics lens a form of refractive error a container a graduated cylinder , glassware for measurement of liquids in laboratories a gas cylinder , a container for storing compressed gas e.g. compressed air in particular a diving cylinder , a type of gas cylinder used in scuba diving a device converting pressure into motion Hydraulic cylinder , a cylinder barrel with piston rod for pushing and pulling using pressurized fluid Pneumatic cylinder , a cylinder barrel with piston rod for pushing and pulling using compressed gases in particular a cylinder locomotive the space, in an engine, within which a piston travels see Cylinder engine a mechanical part Cylinder firearms , the rotating device that contains the firing chambers of a revolver in a lock, the part that is profiled to accept a specific key see Cylinder lock in data storage Phonograph cylinder , the dominant medium of audio storage from the 1870s to the 1910s in some computer hard drives, a division of data see cylinder head sector and cylinder disk drive other Cylinder, Iowa , a small city in the United States a cylinder hat , popular in 19th and early 20th centuries see top hat ancient documents of Babylonian kings see Cylinder of Nabonidus and Cyrus Cylinder disambig ar cs Cylindr da Cylinder de Zylinder es Cilindro desambiguaci n eo Cilindro apartigilo fr Cylindre homonymie ko it Cilindro he lv Cilindrs noz mju atdal ana lt Cilindras reik m s mk nl Cilinder ja nn Sylinder ro Cilindru dezambiguizare ru simple Cylinder disambiguation sk Cylinder fi Sylinteri ... more details
desk which was a mass produced, slatted variant of the classical cylinderdesk . It provided a relatively ...No footnotes date December 2010 cleanup date December 2010 File Writing desk.jpg thumb A writing desk A desk is a furniture form and a class of table furniture table often used in a work or office setting ... side of a desk is suitable to sit on though there are some exceptions, such as a partners desk . Not all desks have the form of a table. For instance, an armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe like cabinet furniture cabinet , and a portable desk is light enough to be placed on a person s lap. Since many people lean on a desk while using it, a desk must be sturdy. Early desks File Yokeback ... editing desk of the 12th century Metropolitan Museum of Art Desk style furniture appears not to have ... or other piece of furniture of those times was designed to be used as a desk by looking for a drawer ... tray and room for the pen s. The desk forms we are familiar with in this beginning of the millennium were born mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ergonomic desk of the last decades is the newest addition to a long list of desk forms, but in a way it is only a refinement of the mechanically ... left thumb An untidy desk. Refinements to those first desk forms were considerable through the 19th ... machinery. This was the first sharp division in desk manufacturing. From then on, limited quantities ... turned out in batches by machine tools . Thus, age alone does not guarantee that an antique desk ... by the end of the day. Paper documents started leaving the desk as a home, with the general introduction ... compartment over or under the work surface of the desk. The famous Wooton desk and others ... different shapes and angles and were ideal for artists. Steel desks A small boom in office work and desk ... and withstand the pounding meted out on the typewriters. The L shaped desk became popular, with the leg ... with the spread of photocopying . Paperwork drove even higher the number of desk workers, whose work ... more details
air cylinder can mean a gas cylinder used to store compressed air . pneumatic cylinder , a mechanical device used to impart a force from a fluid, such as air. disambig ... more details
File 12 and 3 litre diving cylinders.JPG thumb right The upper cylinder in this image has a cylinder boot. A cylinder boot is a rubber or plastic cover for the bottom end of a diving cylinder . It is intended to make it easier to stand the cylinder on end on land, and to avoid the metal cylinder damaging tiles during initial training in swimming pool s. Some accuse that cylinder boots hold wet in, risking corrosion of the bottom end of the cylinder, and add to hydrodynamic drag when the diver swims. ref nl http www.frogkick.nl doing it right vs doing it wrong.htm Doing it right vs doing it wrong frogkick.nl ref References reflist Category Diving equipment underwater diving stub ... more details
Image Cylinder geometry.svg thumb 162px right A right circular cylinder A cylinder is one of the most ... line segment , the axis of the cylinder. The solid enclosed by this surface and by two planes perpendicular to the axis is also called a cylinder. The surface area and the volume of a cylinder have been known since deep antiquity. In differential geometry , a cylinder is defined more broadly as any ruled surface spanned by a one parameter family of parallel lines. A cylinder whose Cross section geometry cross section is an ellipse , parabola , or hyperbola is called an elliptic cylinder , parabolic cylinder , or hyperbolic cylinder respectively. Common use In common use a cylinder is taken to mean a finite section of a right circular cylinder , i.e., the cylinder with the generating lines ... . If the cylinder has a radius r and length height h , then its volume is given by math V pi r 2 ... A 2 pi r 2 2 pi r h 2 pi r r h . , math For a given volume, the cylinder with the smallest surface area has h 2 r . For a given surface area, the cylinder with the largest volume has h 2 r , i.e. the cylinder fits in a cube height diameter. Volume Having a right circular cylinder with a height math ... math A x pi r 2 math or math A y pi r 2 math An element of volume, is a right cylinder of base ... cubic units is the volume of the right circular cylinder, by Riemann sums , math mathrm Volume of cylinder ... cylinder, there are four possibilities. A plane tangent to the cylinder, meets the cylinder in a single straight line. Moved while parallel to itself, the plane either does not intersect the cylinder or intersects it in two parallel lines. All other planes intersect the cylinder in an ellipse or, when they are perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder, in a circle. ref cite web title MathWorld ... Image Elliptic cylinder.png thumb right An elliptic cylinder An elliptic cylinder , or cylindroid , is a quadric ... 0.5 left frac y b right 2 1. math This equation is for an elliptic cylinder , a generalization of the ordinary ... more details
s Linkage mechanical linkages . A Hydraulic cylinder also called a linear hydraulic motor is a mechanical ... pressurized hydraulic fluid , which is typically oil . The hydraulic cylinder consists of a cylinder ... on each end by the cylinder bottom also called the cap end and by the cylinder head where the piston rod comes out of the cylinder. The piston has sliding rings and seals. The piston divides the inside of the cylinder in two chambers, the bottom chamber cap end and the piston rod side chamber rod end ... s, and or Clevis pin clevisses are mounted to the cylinder body. The piston rod also has mounting attachments to connect the cylinder to the object or machine component that it is pushing. A hydraulic cylinder is the actuator or motor side of this system. The generator side of the hydraulic ... of the hydraulic cylinder, to move the piston rod upwards. The piston pushes the oil in the other chamber ... zero, the force F on the piston rod equals the pressure P in the cylinder times the piston area ... cylinder A hydraulic cylinder consists of the following parts Cylinder barrel The cylinder barrel is mostly a seamless thick walled forged pipe that must be machined internally. The cylinder barrel is ground and or honed internally. Cylinder Bottom or Cap In most hydraulic cylinders, the barrel and the bottom ... some cylinder designs have a screwed or flanged connection from the cylinder end cap to the barrel .... Cylinder Head The cylinder head is sometimes connected to the barrel with a sort of a simple lock ... is that the connection is bolted and always simple to remove. For larger cylinder sizes ... during mounting. Piston The piston is a short, cylinder shaped metal component that separates the two sides of the cylinder barrel internally. The piston is usually machined with grooves .... This difference in pressure between the two sides of the piston causes the cylinder to extend and retract ... that the cylinder will see in service. Generally speaking, elastomeric seals made from nitrile ... more details
unreferenced date December 2009 Image Cylinderhead.JPG thumb A 302 5.0L Ford Motor Company Ford cylinder head In an internal combustion engine , the cylinder head often informally abbreviated to just head sits above the cylinder engine cylinders on top of the cylinder block . It consists of a platform ... is essentially a flat plate of metal bolted to the top of the cylinder bank with a head gasket in between .... Detail Internally, the cylinder head has passages called cylinder head porting ports or tracts .... In a Internal combustion engine cooling water cooled engine, the cylinder head also contains integral ... valve OHV design, the cylinder head contains the poppet valves and the spark plugs, along with tracts ... camshaft , which is sited within the cylinder block , and its moment of operation is transmitted ... also being located within the cylinder head. In the overhead camshaft OHC design, the cylinder head ... is now also contained within the cylinder head. The camshaft may be seated centrally between each ... bucket tapets. Implementation The number of cylinder heads in an engine is a function of the engine configuration . Almost all straight engine inline straight engines today have monobloc engine Cylinder heads integrated one cylinder head that serves all the cylinders . A V engine V engine or Vee engine usually has two cylinder heads, one for each cylinder bank of the V . However, Volkswagen Group ... the angle between the cylinder banks is so narrow that it utilises a single head. A flat engine basically a V engine, where the angle between the cylinder banks is now 180 degrees has two heads. Most radial engine s have one head for each cylinder, although this is usually of monobloc engine Cylinder heads and cylinders integrated the monobloc form wherein the head is made as an integral part of the cylinder . Some engines, particularly medium and large capacity diesel engine s built for industrial ... equipment etc. have individual cylinder heads for each cylinder. This reduces repair costs as a single ... more details
Image Cylinder seal Shamash Louvre AO9132.jpg thumb 350px right Mesopotamian limestone cylinder seal and impression&mdash worship of Shamash , Mus e du Louvre Louvre . A cylinder seal is a cylinder engraved ..., generally wet clay . Cylinder seals were invented around 3500 BC in the Near East , at the contemporary ... explore highlights article index m mesopotamian cylinder seals.aspx Mesopotamian cylinder seals , British Museum ref ref http www.jstor.org pss 3045984 Why Cylinder Seals? Engraved Cylindrical ... http www.presstv.ir detail.aspx?id 87240§ionid 351020105 Ancient cylinder seal found in Iran , 02 ... cylinder seals, as honorific grave goods . The seal itself was made from hard stone, glass, or ceramics ... , amethyst and carnelian were used to make cylinder seals, but lapis lazuli was especially popular ... pss 3045984 Why Cylinder Seals? Engraved Cylindrical Seal Stones of the Ancient Near East ..., Vol. 75, No. 4 Dec., 1993 , pp. 563 582, JSTOR ref While most Mesopotamian cylinder seals form an image through the use of depressions in the cylinder surface see lead photo above , some cylinder seals print images using raised areas on the cylinder see San Andr s image below . The former are used ... on cloth and other similar two dimensional surfaces. Cylinder seals are a form of impression seal , a category which includes the stamp seal and finger ring seal. Uses Image San Andres Cylinder Seal print 1.svg thumb right 350px A roll out of the San Andr s Mesoamerican site San Andres ceramic cylinder ... . This cylinder seal is dated to approximately 650 BC. Cylinder seal impressions were made on a variety ... depicted on cylinder seals were mostly theme driven, often sociological or religious. Instead ..., since they presented the ideas of the society in pictographic and text form. In a famous cylinder ... cylinder seals, British Museum Cylinder seals The reference below, Garbini, covers many of the following categories of cylinder seal. A categorization of cylinder seals Akkadian Empire Akkadian cylinder ... more details
context date May 2010 Image 2008 04 21 1990 Geo Storm GSi master cylinder.jpg thumb right A master cylinder from a Geo Storm . The master cylinder is a control device that converts non hydraulic pressure commonly from a driver s foot into hydraulic pressure , in order to move other device s which are located at the other end of the hydraulic system, such as one or more slave cylinders . As piston s move along the bore of the master cylinder, this movement is transferred through the hydraulic fluid, to result in a movement of the slave cylinder s . The hydraulic pressure created by moving a piston inside the bore of the master cylinder toward the slave cylinder s compresses the fluid evenly, but by varying the comparative surface area of the master cylinder and or each slave cylinder, one will vary the amount of force and displacement applied to each slave cylinder relative to the amount of force and displacement that was applied to the master cylinder . Vehicle applications The most common vehicle uses of master cylinders are in brake and clutch systems. In brake systems, the operated devices are cylinders inside of brake caliper s and or drum brakes these cylinders may be called wheel cylinders or slave cylinders, and they push the brake pad s towards a surface that rotates with the wheel this surface is typically either a drum, or a disc, a.k.a. a rotor until the stationary brake pad s create friction against that rotating surface typically the rotating surface is metal or ceramic ... system, the device which the master cylinder operates is called the slave cylinder it moves ... cylinder supplies the master cylinder with enough brake fluid to avoid air from entering the master cylinder even the typical clutch uses brake fluid, but it may also be referred to as clutch fluid in a clutch application . Most modern light trucks and passenger cars have one master cylinder for the brakes ... have only 1 piston per master cylinder . Each piston in a master cylinder operates a brake circuit ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2007 Image Webley Mk IV p1030102.jpg thumb Close up of the cylinder on a Webley Revolver Webley Mk VI service pistol service revolver In firearms terminology, the Cylinder refers to the cylindrical, rotating part of a revolver containing multiple cartridge chambers. The cylinder ... for firing. Each time the gun is cocked, the cylinder Indexing motion indexes by one ... a 7 shot cylinder, the Webley Fosbery Automatic Revolver has an 8 shot cylinder in .38 caliber, and the LeMat Revolver has a 9 shot cylinder. Several models of .22 rimfire caliber revolvers have cylinders ... clip , although these only work on break top and swing out cylinder revolvers, for obvious reasons. Designs Fixed cylinder designs Image Nagant holstered.jpg thumb upright A Nagant M1895 revolver, clearly showing the fixed cylinder s loading gate open The first generation of cartridge revolvers ... , the pin on which the cylinder revolved was removed, and the cylinder taken from the gun for loading. Later models used a loading gate at the rear of the cylinder that allowed one cartridge ... hand was free to load the cartridges Fact date February 2007 . Since the cylinder in these revolvers ... thickness all the way around, fixed cylinder revolvers are inherently strong designs. Because of this, many modern large calibre hunting revolvers tend to be based on the fixed cylinder design. Top break ..., the frame is hinged at the bottom front of the cylinder. Releasing the lock and pushing the barrel down brings the cylinder up this exposes the rear of the cylinder for reloading. In most top break revolvers, the act of pivoting the barrel and cylinder operates an extractor that pushes the cartridges ... rounds are then placed into the cylinder, either one at a time or all at once with either a speedloader or a moon clip . The barrel and cylinder are then rotated back and locked in place, and the revolver is ready to fire. Since the frame is in two parts, held together by a latch on the top rear of the cylinder ... more details
Orphan date December 2007 A wheel cylinder is a component in a drum brake system. It is located in each wheel and is usually at the top, above the shoes. Its responsibility is to exert force onto the shoes so they can contact the drum and stop the vehicle with friction . What connects these wheel cylinders to the shoes are usually small rods shaped like a birds beak. It is very similar to a master cylinder and functions in pretty much the same way, consisting of just a simple little plunger on the inside. On older vehicles these will begin to leak and hinder the performance of the brakes, but are normally inexpensive and easy to replace. The wheel cylinder consists of a cylinder that has two pistons, one on each side. Each piston has a rubber seal and a shaft that connects the piston with a brake shoe. When brake pressure is applied, the pistons are forced out pushing the shoes into contact with the drum. Wheel cylinders must be rebuilt or replaced if they show signs of leaking. automotive part stub Category Brakes ... more details
Refimprove date September 2007 File Cylinder 2 PSF .png thumb right Illustration of an engine cylinder .... A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump , the space in which a piston ... coating such as Nikasil . A cylinder s displacement, or swept volume , can be calculated by multiplying ... by the distance the piston travels within the cylinder the stroke engine stroke . The engine engine displacement displacement can be calculated by multiplying the swept volume of one cylinder by the number of cylinders. A piston is seated inside each cylinder by several metal piston ring s fitted ... sealing and one to seal the motor oil oil . The rings make near contact with the cylinder walls ... from seizing and necessitating a cylinder wall s durable surface. During the earliest stage of an engine ... where applicable and piston rings. Heat engines Image Cylinder NF.png frame right Cylinder with piston ... engine Carnot cycle . The first illustration depicts a longitudinal section of a cylinder in a steam ... valve in this case of the D slide valve type that directs steam alternately into either end of the cylinder ... Malossi air cooled cylinder for Two stroke cycle two stroke Scooter motorcycle scooters . The Exhaust .... In addition to cylinder piston engines, there are also rotation rotary turbine s. The Felix Wankel Wankel engine is a rotary adaptation of the cylinder piston concept which has been used by Mazda ... engines are an exception, having two , three , four , or even six cylinder air cooled units in a common block. Water cooled engines with only a few cylinders may also use individual cylinder cases, though ... air cooled motors with individual cylinder cases, retained the basic design of their V twin engine ..., but this design makes the engine as a whole somewhat less rigid. A typical four cylinder automobile ... engine V8 use two angle d cylinder bank s. The V configuration is utilized to create a more compact ... use, the cylinder is subject to wear from the rubbing action of the piston ring s and piston skirt ... more details
In mathematics , a cylinder set is the natural Open set Topological spaces open set of a product topology . Cylinder sets are particularly useful in providing the basis topology base of the natural topology of the product of a countable number of copies of a set. If V is a finite set , then each element ... math p alpha 1 U math is called an open cylinder . The intersection of a finite number of open cylinders is a cylinder set . The collection of open cylinders form a subbase of the product topology on math X math the collection of all cylinder sets thus form a basis topology basis . The restriction that the cylinder set be the intersection of a finite number of open cylinders is important allowing ... is the box topology cylinder sets are never Hilbert cube s. Definition for infinite products of finite ... are the cylinder sets math C t a 0, cdots, a m C t a 0 , cap , C t 1 a 1 , cap cdots cap , C t m a m x in S mathbb Z x t a 0, ldots ,x t m a m . math Cylinder sets are clopen set s. As elements of the topology, cylinder sets are by definition open sets. The complement of an open set is a closed set, but the complement of a cylinder set is a union of cylinders, and so cylinder sets are also closed ... K such as the real or complex numbers , the cylinder sets may be defined as math C A f 0, cdots, f ... Cylinder sets are often used to define a topology on sets that are subsets of math S mathbb ... type . Cylinder sets are often used to define a measure theory measure for example, the measure of a cylinder ... to cylinder sets, and in particular, the definition of p adic measure s and p adic metric s apply to cylinder sets. Cylinder sets may be used to define a metric mathematics metric on the space for example ... match. Cylinder sets over topological vector spaces are the core ingredient in the formal ... function statistical mechanics partition function of statistical mechanics . See also Cylinder set measure Ultraproduct References springer author R.A. Minlos title Cylinder Set id C c027620 ... more details
Image Zylinderset.jpg thumb 250px Europrofile Cylinder set with 2 double cylinders and one single cylinder left and also the screw to secure the cylinder A cylinder lock is a Lock device lock constructed with a cylinder geometry cylinder that a locksmith can easily unscrew to facilitate rekeying. ref cite book last first authorlink coauthors title Practical Course in Modern Locksmithing publisher Nelson Hall Publishing Company date 1943 pages isbn 0911012060 ref The cylinder may contain any of a variety of locking mechanisms, including the pin tumbler lock , the wafer tumbler lock and the disc tumbler lock . The first main advantage to a cylinder lock, also known as a profile cylinder lock, is that the cylinder may be changed without altering the boltwork hardware. Removing the cylinder typically requires only loosening a set screw, then unscrewing the cylinder from the boltwork. The second is that it is usually possible to obtain, from various lock manufacturers, cylinders in different formats that can all be used with the same type of key. This allows the user to have keyed alike, and master keyed systems that incorporate a wide variety of different types of lock, such as nightlatches, deadbolts and roller door locks. Typically, padlock s can also be included, although these rarely have removable cylinders. Standardised types of cylinder include key in knobset cylinders, rim also known as nightlatch cylinders, Ingersoll format cylinders, American, and Scandinavian round mortise cylinders, and Scandinavian oval cylinders. There are also standardised cross sectional profiles for lock cylinders that may vary in length for example to suit different door thicknesses. These profiles include the europrofile or DIN standard , the British oval profile and the Swiss profile. Cruciform pin tumbler locks may also use interchangeable cylinders, as do a few sophisticated lever locks. Individually Keyed System KD br With an individually keyed system, each cylinder can be opened by its ... more details
1239 ref With this kind of cylinder, the metered liquid does not pour directly, but is often removed using cannula . A graduated cylinder is meant to be read with the surface of the liquid at eye ... cylinder is 0.05. References Reflist Laboratory equipment DEFAULTSORT Graduated Cylinder Category ... M r henger nl Maatcilinder ja no M lesylinder nn M lesylinder pl Cylinder miarowy pt Proveta ru simple Measuring cylinder sk Odmern valec sr fi Mittalasi sv M tglas tl Ginatlaang ... more details
Image CylinderRecordsWPackage.jpg thumb 200px Two Edison cylinder records on either end and their cardboard ... popularity c. 1888 1915 , these cylinder geometry cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical ... 1903 cylinder Image EdisonSlip1903backside.JPG thumb Imprint of backside from the 1903 paper slip Image ColumbiaCylLabelPortion.jpg thumb Portion of the label on the outside of a Columbia Records cylinder ... thumbnail Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder made from black wax, ca. 1904. The term gold was a reference to the metal plated onto the master wax cylinder as the first part in the process of manufacturing the mould. Image AmberolLid.jpg thumb Amberol cylinder package lid Image BlueAmberolRim.jpg thumb Rim of Edison Blue Amberol cylinder The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison on 18 July 1877. His first test using tin foil wrapped around a hand cranked cylinder. ref cite web url ... Edison Cylinder Recorder date September 1, 2006 publisher Mix magazine Mix Magazine accessdate 2008 ... of the machine which played them. Early cylinder records would commonly wear out after ... Edison cylinder Lost Chord.ogg title One of the earliest surviving recordings of music An 1888 recording ... Early cylinder machines of the late 1880s and the 1890s were often sold with recording attachments. The ability to record as well as play back sound was an advantage to cylinder phonographs over the competition .... In the earliest stages of phonograph manufacturing various competing incompatible types of cylinder ... title Song of the Ujangong mask dance description Phonograph cylinder recording from German New Guinea ... companies usually had a generic printed label on the outside of the cylinder package, with no indication ... with the name of the record company would be printed or impressed on to one edge of the cylinder itself ... then be pasted either to the lid of the cylinder container, or as this example prompts to a spindle ... more details
Two cylinder can refer to Straight two engine , with two cylinders in parallel sharing a crankshaft V twin engine , two cylinders sharing a crankshaft at an angle Flat twin engine , having both cylinders on the same crankshaft at 180 to each other U engine with two cylinders with separate crankshafts dab ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 A cylinder manifold is a group of large gas cylinders used to supply gases to a medical pipeline in a hospital. It normally supplies nitrous oxide, Entonox or oxygen. Category Gas technologies Medical equipment stub Lung stub ... more details
vibration. This depends on the layout of the crankshaft more than the cylinder banks alone the planes on which the pistons are arranged, thus their timing and vibration, depend on both the cylinder ... W or broad arrow arrangement uses three cylinder banks, usually a W 12 with three banks of four ... VR6 , have such a narrow bank angle that their cylinders are combined into a single cylinder ... as usual or one cylinder bank. Radial engines In a radial engine , cylinders are arranged radially ... more details
The Barton Cylinder is a solid clay cylinder inscribed with a Sumerian language Sumerian cuneiform script cuneiform mythological text, found at the site of Nippur . The cylinder was found in 1889 during excavations conducted by the University of Pennsylvania . The cylinder takes its name from George Aaron Barton George Barton , who was the first to publish a transcription and translation of the text in 1918. ref George Aaron Barton, http books.google.com books?id nn5hAAAAMAAJ&printsec frontcover&dq miscellaneous babylonian inscriptions&source bl&ots f9Tqkb8rHg&sig fNUlMe6MbiOARgsCsZH2pRSs528&hl en&ei ssvVS43MFYSclgfGr7W6CQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CAYQ6AEwAA v onepage&q&f false Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions Yale University Press, 1918 . ref It is also referred to as CBS 8383 and Samuel Noah Kramer has called it The Nippur Cylinder . ref cite book last Kramer first Samuel Noah title Sumerian Mythology A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. publisher Forgotten Books date 2007, original publication 1961 isbn 978 1605060491 page 28 url http books.google.co.uk books?id t16tDOHZLLEC&pg PA28&dq 22Nippur cylinder 22&hl en&ei 2fHVS bpOs2fOJmn6YsO&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CDYQ6AEwAA v onepage&q 22Nippur 20cylinder 22&f false ref A more recent edition was published by Bendt Alster and Aage Westenholz in 1994. ref Bendt Alster and Aage Westenholz, The Barton Cylinder, Acta Sumeriologica 16 1994 15 46. http cdl.museum.upenn.edu s x resources barton cylinder.pdf ref The cylinder dates to the Old Babylonian period, but Falkenstein 1951 surmises that the composition was written in Archaic, pre Ur III cuneiform, likely dating to the Akkad dynasty 23rd century BC . He concludes a non written literary history that was characterised and repeated in future texts. ref Bendt Alster, On the Earliest Sumerian Literary Tradition, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 28 1976 109 126. http www.jstor.org stable 1359501 ref ... more details
Cylinder 1024 is the first cylinder disk drive cylinder of a hard disk that was inaccessible in the original IBM PC compatible hardware specification, INT 13H interrupt 13h , which uses cylinder head sector addressing. At boot time very old BIOS of many PCs could only access the first 1024 cylinders, numbered 0 to 1023 as CHS addressing only defines 10 bits for the cylinder count 2 10 1024 . This was a problem for operating system s on the x86 platform as the BIOS must be able to load the bootloader and the entire kernel computer science kernel image into memory. Both of these must, therefore, be located on the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. Older versions of Microsoft Windows resolved this by necessitating that the operating system was installed to the first partition. Because of this bug, users of the Linux operating system have traditionally created a tt boot tt partition to reside within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk, containing little more than the Kernel computer science kernel and bootloader. See also Cylinders 0 to 79 of an Amiga Disk File ADF External links cite web url http homepage.ntlworld.com. jonathan.deboynepollard FGA os2 disc and volume size limits.html title Disc and volume size limits work Frequently Given Answers author Jonathan de Boyne Pollard date 1996 &mdash includes a discussion of the cylinder 1024 limitation. http www.tldp.org HOWTO Large Disk HOWTO 4.html Large Disk HOWTO History of BIOS and IDE limits microcompu stub Category IBM PC compatibles Category Rotating disc computer storage media Category Hard disk computer storage ... more details
One source date October 2010 A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical Space habitat rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA s Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Thomas L McKendree Tom McKendree . ref name original http www.zyvex.com nanotech nano4 mckendreePaper.html RTFToC17 Implications of Molecular Nanotechnology Technical Performance Parameters on Previously Defined Space System Architectures ref As with other space habitat designs, the cylinder would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force. The design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O 27Neill Gerard K. O Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing the habitat to be built much larger. In the original proposal, the habitat would be approximately 460 km 290 mi in radius and 4600 km 2900 mi in length, containing 13 million square kilometers 5.1 million square miles of living space, ref name original nearly as much area as the nation of Russia . As originally proposed, the McKendree cylinder is simply a scaled up version of the Island Three O Neill cylinder . Like the O Neill cylinder, McKendree proposed dedicating half of the surface of the colony to windows, allowing direct illumination of the interior. ref name original The habitat would be composed of a pair of counter rotating cylinders which would function like Reaction wheel momentum wheels to control the habitat s orientation. ref name original McKendree cylinders in fiction McKendree Cylinders are a type of habitat in the fictional universe of the Orion 27s Arm Orion s Arm world building project , but scaled up to the theoretical limits of carbon nanotubes 1000 km in radius and 10,000 km long, containing 63 million square kilometers 24 million square miles of living space greater than the continent of Eurasia . References ... McKendree Cylinder Space stations Category Carbon nanotubes Category Megastructures Category ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Cylinder, Iowa settlement type City nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps image map Palo Alto County Iowa Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Cylinder Highlighted.svg mapsize 250px map caption Location of Cylinder, Iowa image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location coordinates region US IA subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name USA subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 flag Iowa subdivision type2 List of counties in Iowa County subdivision name2 Palo Alto County, Iowa Palo Alto government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 0.2 area land km2 0.2 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 0.1 area land sq mi 0.1 area water sq mi 0.0 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 110 population density km2 627.4 population density sq mi 1625.1 General information timezone North American Central Time Zone Central CST utc offset 6 timezone DST CDT utc offset DST 5 elevation footnotes elevation m 363 elevation ft 1191 coordinates display display inline,title latd 43 latm 5 lats 21 latNS N longd 94 longm 33 longs 0 longEW W Area postal codes & others postal ... feature ID blank1 info 0455764 website footnotes Cylinder is a city in Palo Alto County, Iowa Palo ... that the name comes from a vehicle that passed over the creek and dropped a cylinder. There are other stories, but no clear definitive explanation. fact date August 2007 Geography Cylinder is located ... Palo Alto County, Iowa Category Cities in Iowa Category Palo Alto County, Iowa ca Cylinder Iowa fr Cylinder Iowa io Cylinder, Iowa ht Cylinder, Iowa nl Cylinder Iowa pl Cylinder Iowa pt Cylinder Iowa simple Cylinder, Iowa vo Cylinder ... more details
On the Sphere and Cylinder is a work that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BC. ref Harvnb Dunham 1990 p 99 ref It most notably details how to find the surface area of a sphere and the volume of the contained ball mathematics ball and the analogous values for a cylinder geometry cylinder , and was the first to do so. ref mathworld urlname Sphere title Sphere Retrieved on 2008 06 22 ref Contents The principal formulae derived in On the Sphere and Cylinder are those mentioned above the surface area of the sphere, the volume of the contained ball, and surface area and volume of the cylinder. In his work, Archimedes showed that the surface area of a cylinder is equal to math A 2 pi r 2 2 pi r h 2 pi r r h . , math and that the volume of the same is math V pi r 2 h. , math ref Harvnb Dunham 1994 p 227 ref On the sphere, he showed that the surface area is four times the area of its great circle . In modern terms, this means that the surface area is equal to math 4 pi r 2. , math The result for the volume of the contained ball stated that it is two thirds the volume of a circumscribe d Cylinder geometry cylinder , meaning that the volume is math frac 4 3 pi r 3. math Archimedes was particularly proud of this latter result, and so he asked for a sketch of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder to be inscribed on his grave. Later, Ancient Rome Roman philosophy philosopher Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero discovered the tomb, which had been overgrown by surrounding vegetation. ref citation title Britannica Online contribution Archimedes His Works accessdate 2008 06 23 url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 32808 Archimedes 21480 His works ref ref383380&tocpanel sectionId toc214869 2CtocId toc214869 publisher Encyclopedia Britannica ref The argument Archimedes used to prove the formula for the volume of a ball was rather involved in its geometry, and many modern textbooks ... And Cylinder Category Ancient Greek mathematical works Category Euclidean geometry Category Works ... more details
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