Other uses Square disambiguation Unreferenced date December 2009 A squareinch plural square inches is a Units of measurement unit of area , equal to the area of a Square geometry square with sides of one inch . The following symbols are used to denote square inches square in sq inches, sq inch, sq in inches 2, inch 2, in 2 inches 2, inch 2, in 2 inches , inch , in The squareinch is a common unit of measurement in the United States and the United Kingdom . Equivalence with other units of area 1 squareinch assuming an international inch is equal to the overbars indicate repeating decimal s Nowrap 0.006 9 Overbar 4 square feet 1 square foot is equal to 144 square inches Nowrap 0.000 7 Overbar 71 604 9382 square yard s 1 square yard is equal to 1,296 square inches Nowrap 6.4516 square centimetre s 1 square centimetre is equal to Nowrap 0.155 000 310&hellip square inches Nowrap 0.000 645 16 square metre s 1 square metre is equal to Nowrap 1,550.003 100&hellip square inches See also 1 E 1 m for a comparison with other areas Cubic inch Orders of magnitude area Conversion of units Area geometry Square algebra , square root DEFAULTSORT SquareInch Category Units of area Category Imperial units Category Customary units in the United States de Quadratzoll es Pulgada cuadrada it Pollice quadro hu N gyzeth velyk ja .E5.B9.B3.E6.96.B9.E3.82.A4.E3.83.B3.E3.83.81 pt Polegada quadrada zh ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date November 2006 Squareinch analysis or squinch guides many marketing decisions for mail order companies. Such analysis consists of counting how many squareinch es each product takes on a catalog page. The cost per squareinch determined by production, printing, postage and name rental costs. A more advanced squinch will give more weight to certain pages. DEFAULTSORT SquareInch Analysis Category Marketing terminology ... more details
sub sg sub x psi . Psig v. Psia Psig pound force per squareinch gauge is a unit of pressure relative to the surrounding atmosphere. By contrast, psia pound force per squareinch absolute measures ... per squareinch is 1000 psi, combining the prefix kilo kilo with the psi abbreviation. It is occasionally ... da PSI de Pound force per squareinch es Libra por pulgada cuadrada eu PSI fr PSI unit hr Psi tlak it Psi unit di misura he PSI nl Pound force per squareinch ja nn PSI pl Psi jednostka ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square Type Album Artist Wheat band Wheat Released May 22, 2007 Recorded Genre Indie rock Length 43 05 Label Sugar Free Records Producer Dave Fridmann Reviews Allmusic Rating 3.5 5 Allmusic class album id r1042255 pure url yes link Pitchfork Media 7.4 10 http www.pitchforkmedia.com article record review 43296 everyday i said a prayer for kathy and made a one inch square link Last album Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second br 2003 This album Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square br 2007 Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square is the fourth full length album by Indie music Indie band Wheat band Wheat . It was released on May 22, 2007. Track listing What You Got Move Move Little White Dove Init .005 Formerly, A Case Of... Saint In Law Hospital Bed To, As In Addressing The Grave Round In The Corners An Exhausted Fixer Courting Ed Templeton Category 2007 albums Category Wheat albums ... more details
Merge to inch date July 2010 This article is about a unit of measurement. The word inch is also used in Scotland as an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic Innis , meaning an island, or piece of dry land in a swamp, e.g. Insch , Inchkeith , Inchkenneth . A Scottish inch lang gd irleach was a Scottish measurement of length. Equivalent to Obsolete Scottish units of measurement Scottish measures 1 12 ft Metric system 2.554 cm Imperial system 1.0016 inches http www.dsl.ac.uk getent4.php?plen 333&startset 1811889&query INCH&fhit inch&dregion form&dtext snds fhit It was used in the popular expression Gie nowiki nowiki im an inch, an he ll tak an ell Scots ell equivalent to Give him an inch, and he ll take a mile A Scottish squareinch was equivalent to 1.0256 imperial square inches and 6.4516 square centimetres. See also ell Scots Mile Scots Fall Scots Insh disambiguation References Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland Weights and Measures , by D. Richard Torrance, SAFHS, Edinburgh, 1996, ISBN 1 874722 09 9 NB book focusses on Scottish weights and measures exclusively Dwelly Scottish National Dictionary and Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Category Scottish weights and measures Category Units of length Scotland stub ... more details
volume Conversion of units Squareinch Cubic foot DEFAULTSORT Cubic Inch Category Units of volume ... of the cubic inch Electrical box volume The cubic inch was established decades ago as the conventional ... North America. Engine displacement There are links to this heading The cubic inch was formerly used ... the cubic inch is still used for this purpose in the context of classic car collecting and so forth ... , and gas turbine engines . For more information and a list of cubic inch to liter displacement ... more details
The miner s inch is a unit of flow in terms of volume per unit time. It is sometimes used in relation to flow of water . Definition 1 60 Cubic foot per second ft s 472 mL s New Zealand 1 50 ft s 566 mL s southern California , Idaho , Kansas , Nebraska , New Mexico , North Dakota , South Dakota , Utah , Washington U.S. state Washington 1 40 ft s 708 mL s Arizona , northern California, Montana , Nevada , Oregon 1 38 ft s 745 mL s Colorado 1 36 ft s 787 mL s British Columbia Explanation The miner s inch was derived from the amount of water that would flow through a hole of a given area and a given pressure for example, 4 6 Inch of water inches of water , or 1 1.5 Pascal unit kPa . The word inch actually refers to the area of the hole in square inches . State regulations sometimes forbid the use of the unit without its being associated with a definition in the same document. External links http www.sizes.com units miners inch.htm description at sizes.com http www.supreme.state.az.us wm pdfs RulesRev053105.pdf Arizona government definition http www.idwr.idaho.gov water rights INST FOR APP FOR PERMIT 10 10 2007.pdf Idaho government definition http www.leg.state.nv.us NRS NRS 533.html Nevada government definition http legis.state.sd.us statutes DisplayStatute.aspx?Type Statute&Statute 46 1 7 South Dakota government definition Category Units of flow ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time Type EP Artist The Number Twelve Looks Like You Cover aninchofgold.jpg Released January 25, 2005 Recorded Stained Glass Studios, Paramus, New Jersey Genre Mathcore Length 14 34 Label Eyeball Records Producer The Number Twelve Looks Like You Reviews Punknews.org Rating 4 5 http www.punknews.org review 3768 link scenepointblank 4.9 10 http www.scenepointblank.com reviews 393 link Sputnik Music Rating 4.5 5 http www.sputnikmusic.com album.php?albumid 6286 link Last album Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses br 2003 This album An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time br 2005 Next album Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. br 2005 An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time is the 2005 release by mathcore group The Number Twelve Looks Like You . It is their first release by Eyeball Records . Track listing All of the songs were written and produced by The Number Twelve Looks Like You, with the exception of My Sharona which was written by The Knack in 1979. Clarissa Explains Cuntainment 2 26 Don t Get Blood on My Prada Shoes 1 25 Like a Cat 3 24 Jesus and Tori 3 25 My Sharona 3 17 Personnel Music Jesse Korman Singing vocals Justin Pedrick Singing vocals Alexis Pareja Electric guitar guitar Jamie Mcilroy Electric guitar guitar Michael Smagula Bass guitar bass Christopher Conger Drum kit drums and percussion instrument percussion Production and design Dan Coutant Audio engineering engineer , mastering , Audio mixing recorded music mixer The Number Twelve Looks Like You record producer producer The Number Twelve Looks Like You DEFAULTSORT Inch Of Gold For An Inch Of Time Category The Number Twelve Looks Like You albums Category 2005 EPs ... more details
A column inch is a measurement of the amount of content in published works that use multiple columns per page. A column inch is a unit of space one column wide by one inch high. Unreferenced date August 2007 A newspaper page Newspaper pages are laid out on a grid that consists of a margin on 4 sides, a number of vertical columns and space between columns called gutters . Broadsheet newspaper pages in the United States usually have 6 columns, while tabloid sized publications have 5 columns. Column width In the United States, a common newspaper column measurement is about 11 Pica typography picas wide or about 1.83 inch es , though this measure varies from paper to paper and in other countries. The examples in this article follow this assumption for illustration purposes only. Column inches and advertising Newspapers sell advertising space on a page to retail advertisers, advertising agencies and other media buyers. Newspapers publish a per column inch rate based on their circulation and demographic figures. Generally, the more readers the higher the column inch rate is. Newspapers with more affluent readers may be able to command an even higher column inch rate. For most newspapers, however, the published rate is just a starting point. Sales representatives generally negotiate lower rates for frequent advertisers. Advertisements are measured using column inches. An advertisement that is 1 column inchsquare is 11 picas wide by 1 inch high. The column inch size for advertisements that spread over more than one column is determined by multiplying the number of inches high ... 10 per column inch, the cost for the advertisement discussed above would be 180.00 18 column ... width by inch height ad, replacing the words in parentheses with a single figure. This can be confusing ..., newspaper professionals understand the first figure is the column width and the second figure is the inch ... that there are 25 35 words in a column inch. Newsroom staffers also measure items such as photograph ... more details
An inch is a unit of measurement. Inch or inches may also refer to Units Inch as a measurement of rain, measured by a rain gauge Inch of mercury , unit of pressure Inch of water , unit of pressure Inch Scots , Scottish unit of measurement Column inch , unit of publication measurement Gear inches , measure of bicycle gearing Miner s inch , unit of flow Pyramid inch , or Sacred Jewish inch , unit used by pyramidologists Places Inch in Scottish and Irish placenames an anglicisation of the Gaelic innis usually meaning an island or meadow Ireland Inch, County Clare , a town Inch, County Laois , a townland in County Laois , Ireland Inch, County Wexford , a town Inch, County Tipperary , a village Inch Abbey , a ruined monastic site in County Down, Scotland Inch, an islet off St Mary s Isle Priory in the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area North Inch location of the Battle of the North Inch or South Inch in Perth, Scotland Perth New Zealand Inch Valley , locality near Otago, New Zealand See also Insch , a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland Insh , a village in the Highland Council Area of Scotland People Richard Inch 1843 1911 , American admiral Adam Inch 1857 1933 , Scottish Canadian farmer and politician Robert Alexander Inch 1873 1961 , American judge Thomas Inch 1881 1963 , British strongest man Other USS Inch DE 146 , American naval ship Big Inch , 1942 American oil pipeline Inches album , a music album by Les Savy Fav See also lookfrom Inch , including islands starting with Inch Insh disambiguation disambig ... more details
Inches of water , wc , inch water column inch WC , inAq , Aq , or inH2O is a non SI unit for pressure . The units are by convention and due to the historical measurement of certain pressure differentials. It is used for measuring small pressure differences across an orifice, or in a Pipeline transport pipeline or shaft. ref http www.npl.co.uk pressure faqs ohnoinches.html Inches of something ref Inches of water can be converted to a pressure unit using the formula for pressure head . It is defined as the pressure exerted by a column of water of 1 inch in height at defined conditions for example 39 F 4 celsius C at the standard gravity standard acceleration of gravity 1 inAq is approximately equal to 249 pascal unit pascal s at 0 C. Alternative standard conditions in common usage are 60 F, or 68 F 20 C , and depends on industry standards rather than on international standards. In North America, air and other industrial gasses are often measured in inches of water when at low pressure. This is in contrast to inches of mercury or Pounds per squareinch psi for larger pressures. One usage is in the measurement of air wind that supplies a pipe organ and is referred simply as inches . It is also used in natural gas distribution for measuring utilization pressure U.P. , i.e. the residential point of use which is typically between 6 and 7 inches WC 6 7 WC or about 0.25 psi. 1 inAq .036126 psi, or 27.68089 inAq 1 psi. See also Centimetre of water Pressure head References references Category Units of pressure ... more details
Image Inch Abbey, Downpatrick, March 2010 03 .JPG thumb right 250px Inch Abbey, March 2010 Inch Abbey is a large, ruined monastic site 0.75 miles 1.2km north west of Downpatrick , County Down , Northern Ireland , on the north bank of the River Quoile in a hollow between two drumlin s and featuring early Gothic architecture . The site is mostly in State Care and is at grid ref J477455, off the main road to Belfast . ref cite book last Barry, TB year 1987 title The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland publisher Methuen location London pages p145 ref ref name DOE cite book last Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland year 1983 title Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland publisher HMSO location Belfast pages p103 ref ref name DY cite book last Donnelly, CJ year 1997 title Living Places publisher Institute of Irish Studies, QUB location Belfast pages p85 88 ref Pre Norman site The site was originally on an island lang ga Inis in the Quoile Marshes. The pre Normans Norman Celts Celtic monastic settlement here, known as Inis Cumhscraigh or Inis Cuscraidh ref name DY , was in existence by the year 800. In 1002 it was plundered by the Viking s led by Sitric, ref name GV cite book last ... Inch Abbey was established as a Cistercian house by John de Courcy and his wife Affrica. Inch, or Iniscourcy , was erected as an act of repentance for the destruction of the Abbey at Erinagh ..., an aisled nave to the west and two projecting transept s each convert 27 ft m abbr on square ... Parliament tried to help waning English influence by restricting the membership of the Order at Inch ... reflist Commonscat Inch Abbey See also Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland County Down ... inch.php Cistercian Abbeys Inch http www.ehsni.gov.uk inch.shtml Environment and Heritage Service Inch Abbey Museums and galleries in Northern Ireland coord 54 19 58 N 05 44 00 W type landmark region ... Northern Ireland Environment Agency properties de Inch Abbey ... more details
pquote The Paris inch is commonly employed as the unit by which to express the focal length of lenses, and it cannot, therefore, be dispensed with The Ophthalmoscope 1864 ref name adolf The Paris inch , or pouce, is an old unit of measure, that among other uses, was common for giving the measurement of lenses. ref name adolf The Ophthalmoscope By Adolf Zander English Translation http books.google.com books?id oV7BbUSGxHIC&pg PR9&lpg PR9&dq paris inch&source bl&ots bEtK9MeRT4&sig VZorqFFMqKEMXEvOBf5XfshEcew&hl en&ei 3sCJSqmFLsyptgf8tdXnDA&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5 v onepage&q paris 20inch&f false Google Books ref The Paris inch could be subdivided into 12 ligne Paris line , and 12 Paris inches made a Paris foot. ref name adolf The Paris inch and Paris foot could be abbreviated with and nowiki nowiki like some other inch foot units. ref name adolf It was larger than the English inch and the Vienna inch , although the Vienna inch was subdivided with a decimal, not 12 lines. ref name adolf A Paris inch is equal to 27.069 millimetres. ref warre.biobees.com christ.pdf, Notes by David Heaf on Anweisung zur n tzlichen and angenehmen Bienenzucht f r alle Gegenden by Pfarrer Johann Ludwig Christ 1739 1813 Rodheim, Hessen, Germany ref The Paris inch was also known as a pouce. ref http www.btinternet.com matthewbrown h m.htm ref A famous example of its use is in the first Great Refractor . It had a lens made by Joseph von Fraunhofer which was 9 Paris inches in diameter, which works out to about 24 cm or 9.6 inches English inches aperture achromatic lens the largest of its day . ref http adsabs.harvard.edu abs 1967AmJPh..35..344W adsabs link Fraunhofer and the Great Dorpat Refractor , Waaland, J. Robert, American Journal of Physics, Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 344 350 1967 ref ref http www.obs.ee obs instrumendid fr.htm ref References reflist See also English inch Vienna inch France Category Optics Category Units of length ... more details
Image Alloainch.jpg right thumb 300px Alloa Inch, showing the ruins Inch or Alloa Inch lang gd innis , island is an island in the tidal reaches of the River Forth near Alloa , just before the river opens out into the Firth of Forth . There is a derelict farmhouse on the island, as the land was farmed in the past. Due to subsidence caused by nearby coal mining, flood defences were breached. The land now consists of reed beds and salt marshes. ref cite web url http www.scottish places.info features featurefirst18078.html title Alloa Inch publisher Gazetteer for Scotland accessdate 2009 08 09 ref The Scottish Wildlife Trust has managed the island as a reserve since 1996. ref http www.swt.org.uk Scottish Wildlife Trust ref The smaller islet of Tullibody Inch lies just upstream. Footnotes reflist Islands of the Forth coord 56 6 21 N 3 48 52 W region GB type isle display title category Islands of the Forth Scotland geo stub nn Alloa Inch ... more details
Location map New Zealand label Inch Valley lat dir S lat deg 45 lat min 24 lon dir E lon deg 170 lon min 38 position right width 150 float right caption Inch Valley is a lightly populated rural locality in the Otago region of New Zealand s South Island . ref LINZ 12664 12 October 2007 ref It is northwest of Palmerston, New Zealand Palmerston and Glenpark, New Zealand Glenpark , east of Stoneburn , on the banks of the Shag River . Economic activity around Inch Valley is agriculture agricultural . Transport Inch Valley is between Glenpark and Dunback on New Zealand State Highway 85 State Highway 85 . For 104 years, a branch line railway passed through Inch Valley for 68 of these years, it was a railway junction. The Dunback and Makareao Branches Dunback Branch from the Main South Line through Inch Valley to Dunback opened on 29 August 1885, to open up the country and serve farming interests. On 31 March 1900 the short Dunback and Makareao Branches Makareo Branch from Inch Valley northeast to a limeworks in Makareao opened. Passengers in Inch Valley were served solely by mixed train s that ran between Palmerston and Dunback. Due to declining patronage these were cancelled on 10 August 1930 and replaced by goods only trains. ref David Leitch and Brian Scott, Exploring New Zealand s Ghost Railways , revised edition Wellington Grantham House, 1998 1995 , 88. ref Inch Valley s railway station had a small shelter shed for passengers, a loading bank for freight and a loop for 15 wagons 100 metres away was a ballast siding. ref Patrick Dunford, http www.trainweb.org enzedrail branch makareao Dunback & Makareao Branches , accessed 12 October 2007. ref On 1 January 1968 the Dunback Branch was closed due to substantial financial losses. Local freight was no longer carried trains ran through Inch Valley without stopping thrice weekly to serve the Makareao limeworks. On 1 June 1989 this line closed. The railway track bed formation is visible around Inch Valley at the old station site ... more details
orphan date October 2009 Inch pedal is a standard pedal used in mobile machinery with a hydraulic pilot pressure output proportional to the pedal position, or an electronic pedal with a proportional Signal electrical engineering electric signal output. The pedal is used in Continuously variable transmission hydrostatic transmissions to temporarily affect the preset characteristics for hydrostatic gear ratio versus diesel engine rpm . br DEFAULTSORT Inch Pedal Category Automotive transmission technologies ... more details
Infobox military person name Richard Inch image caption born Birth date 1843 6 29 died Death date and age 1911 4 21 1843 6 29 placeofburial label Place of burial placeofburial placeofbirth Washington, D.C. placeofdeath Washington, D.C. placeofburial coordinates coord LAT LONG display inline,title nickname allegiance USA branch Image United States Department of the Navy Seal.svg 25px United States Navy serviceyears 1863&ndash 1905 rank Rear admiral United States Rear Admiral unit commands battles American Civil War br Spanish American War br Philippine American War awards relations laterwork Richard Inch 29 June 1843&ndash 21 April 1911 was a Rear admiral United States rear admiral of the United States Navy . Biography Inch was born 29 June 1843 at Washington, D.C. , and was warranted Third Assistant Engineer on 13 September 1863. He served in USS Lancaster and other ships during the American Civil War . During his long career Inch served as special assistant at the White House , as Inspector of Coal , and as an officer in many of the ships of the fleet. He was at Mare Island Navy Yard during the Spanish American war , but was assigned to Naval Station Cavite in March 1899. Inch served with distinction during this tumultuous time in the Philippines , and was later advanced three numbers in grade for his performance. He retired as a Rear Admiral in 1905, and died on 21 April 1911 at Washington, D.C. Honors During World War II , the United States Navy honored Inch by naming the destroyer USS Inch DE 146 after him. See also Admiral of the Navy United States Spanish American War USS Inch DE 146 References DANFS http www.history.navy.mil danfs i1 inch.htm Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Inch, Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 29 June 1843 PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, D.C. DATE OF DEATH 21 April 1911 PLACE OF DEATH Washington, D.C. DEFAULTSORT Inch, Richard Category 1843 births Category 1911 deaths Category United States Navy admirals ... more details
Adam Inch , born 22 March 1857 at Coulterhaugh, Scotland . died 3 July 1933 in Hamilton, Ontario . Dairy farmer, politician . ref name HAMBIO2 cite book title Dictionary of Hamilton Biography Vol II, 1876 1924 first Thomas Melville last Bailey publisher W.L. Griffin Ltd year 1991 ref His father Alexander Inch died when he was twelve years old and was bequeathed two small farms. Also sold horses that he brought over from Scotland on ship and successfully sold them in the Montreal area. A number of relatives had emigrated to Canada and settled in the Carluke area, south of Ancaster, Ontario . Later bought a farm at Wentworth Street and Fennell Avenue in 1875 in Barton Township where he ran a dairy farm to provide for the houses in Hamilton. In the political arena he served on the Barton Township board of education and Township Council for several years. Interests included the Incline Railway Company , The Barton and Binbrook Telephone Co ., and the Mount Hamilton Bus Lines . He was also active member in the Hillcrest Lodge AF & AM. Early 1920s he sold his dairy herd and actively campaigned on the City council to take the land south of Concession Street Hamilton, Ontario Concession Street ... park on convert 16 acre m2 of this property, naming it Inch Park Hamilton, Ontario Inch Park to honour the family had made to the development of Mount Hamilton. Tribute Inch Park Hamilton, Ontario Inch Park neighbourhood on the Hamilton, Ontario Mountain named after him. It is bounded by the Niagara ... Upper Wentworth Street east . Landmarks in this neighbourhood include Inch Park Arena and Inch Park Hamilton, Ontario Inch Park , both of which are also named after him. Inch Imaging is a design firm founded in Inch Park Neighborhood in 2006, named in honour of the park and surrounding area. References ... Persondata . NAME Inch, Adam ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1857 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1933 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Inch, Adam Category 1857 births Category 1933 deaths ... more details
orphan date September 2010 Infobox musical artist Name Inch Chua Img Inchchua wallflower.jpg Img capt Inch Chua in a promotional photo for Wallflower, 2010 Background solo singer Full name Inch Chua Yun Juan chinesename pinyinchinesename C i Y n J an Born birth date and age mf yes 1988 12 22 br Singapore Origin Genre Acoustic music Acoustic br Folk music Folk br Folktronica Occupation Singer songwriter , musician Instrument Singing Vocals , guitar , piano , synthesizer , keyboard instrument keyboard , programming music programming , bass guitar Years active 2004&ndash present Label Independent record label independent Associated acts Auburn s Epiphany, Allura URL http www.inchchua.com inchchua.com Inch Chua Yun Juan born December 22, 1988 is a Singaporean singer songwriter , musician , composer and multi instrumentalist . She gained national recognition after being the first Singapore solo artist to be invited to the prestigious South by Southwest SXSW Music Festival. ref name CNNgo http www.cnngo.com singapore shop singapores inch chua perform south southwest music festival 132037 Inch Chua Singing Her Way To SXSW 2010 . cnngo.com, 18 September 2010 ref She has since gained visibility with the release of her 2010 debut full length studio album album Wallflower . Her music is influenced by everything from early pop music pop classics, oldies , jazz to Alternative rock alt rock . Her material is best described as a schizophrenic potpourri of introspective acoustic tunes, chirpy electronica and introspective lyrics. ref name CNA http www.channelnewsasia.com stories entertainmentfeatures view 1039598 1 .html Channel News Asia, Inch Chua s Texas dream gig . channelnewsasia.com, 18 September 2010 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Inch Chua ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 22 December 1988 PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Inch Chuak Category 1988 births Category Singaporean music ... more details
Not to be confused with Inchkeith , in the Firth of Forth Keith Inch is the Extreme points of the United Kingdom easternmost point of mainland Scotland . It is located in Peterhead in Aberdeenshire , forming the north point of Peterhead Bay at coord 57 30 10 N 1 45 51 W . Formerly an island, it now forms part of Peterhead Harbour. Inch is a common Scottish word for an island, e.g. Inchcolm , Inchkenneth , and na h Innse Gall Hebrides and derives from the Scottish Gaelic language Scottish Gaelic , innis . It was used in the whaling industry, and boil yards were here. http www.geograph.org.uk photo 176530 In 1644 about 500 of Cromwell s English soldiers reigned terror in the Peterhead. They were encamped on Keith Inch with their headquarters in the castle External links gbmapping NK142458 References Haswell Smith, Hamish The Scottish Islands Category Geography of Aberdeenshire Category Geography of Scotland Category Former islands of Scotland Aberdeenshire geo stub ... more details
Infobox Scottish island Image Lochnakealislands.jpg ImageCaption A view across to Inch Kenneth from Ulva the nearer islets are Geasgill Mor & Beag, while the longer island behind them is Inch Kenneth Map GridReference NM435355 latitude 56.44171 longitude 6.16317 celtic name Innis Choinnich norse name meaning of name Island of Kenneth, follower of St Columba area convert 55 ha sqmi 2 area rank 189 highest elevation convert 49 m ft 0 Population 0 population rank main settlement island group Inner Hebrides local authority Argyll and Bute references ref 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland ref ref name Smith Haswell Smith ref ref http www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Ordnance Survey ref Inch Kenneth lang gd Innis Choinnich is a small island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull , Scotland , to the south of Ulva . It is part of the Loch Na Keal National Scenic Area , one of 40 in Scotland. ref http www.snh.gov.uk protecting scotlands nature protected areas national designations nsa National Scenic Areas . SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011. ref History The island is named after Saint Kenneth St Kenneth , a follower of Saint Columba , who is said to have founded a monastery on the island. People Inch Kenneth was visited in 1773 by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell during their tour of the Hebrides they were entertained there by Sir Allan MacLean, head of the Clan MacLean Maclean clan . Both ... of their visit to Inch Kenneth. In the 1930s the island was owned by Sir Harold Boulton, the writer ... under private ownership. Inch Kenneth was one of the locations for the 1993 feature film Walk ... Bruce, David 1996 Scotland the Movie . Polygon. ref Image Inch Kenneth house.JPG thumb left The house on Inch Kenneth Footnotes Reflist coord 56.44171 N 6.16317 W region GB type isle source enwiki ... of the Inner Hebrides Category Argyll and Bute Argyll geo stub br Innis Choinnich ca Inch Kenneth es Inch Kenneth fr Inch Kenneth gd Innis Choinnich nn Inch Kenneth ... more details
Thomas Inch 27 December 1881 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire Scarborough , England &ndash 12 December 1963 held the titles of Britain s Strongest Youth and Britain s Strongest Man . ref http www.bodybuilding.com fun ironhistory1.htm History of body building ref He is known for the Thomas Inch dumbbell, known as 172 , a dumbbell that weighs 172lbs and 9 ounces. It was extremely difficult to lift, partly due to its weight, but primarily because its handle was very thick 2 3 8 inches in diameter making it difficult to hold onto without an outstandingly strong grip. There were numerous reports that there was a hole in the original bell, in which Thomas would place a nail thus allowing him to arrest any rotation and lift it. References reflist Bodybuilding bio stub England sport bio stub DEFAULTSORT Inch, Thomas Category 1881 births Category 1963 deaths Category People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Inch, Thomas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION bodybuilder DATE OF BIRTH 1881 12 27 PLACE OF BIRTH Scarborough, North Yorkshire Scarborough , England DATE OF DEATH 1963 12 12 PLACE OF DEATH ... more details
Sir John Inch CBE Royal Victorian Order CVO Queen s Police Medal QPM 1911 1993 was successively Chief Constable of three Scottish police forces. John Ritchie Inch was born in Lesmahagow , Lanarkshire, Scotland on 14 May 1911. At the age of eleven he was selected to attend the Hamilton Academy , a remarkable school acting as a magnet for the most academically gifted youngsters of Lanarkshire. Sir Tam Dalyell in his obituary article on Sir John Inch, The Independent, 29 November 1993. ref http www.independent.co.uk news people obituary sir john inch 1507465.html The Independent obituary 29 November 1993 Retrieved 18 October 2010 ref From Hamilton Academy Inch entered the University of Glasgow graduating MA in law. Joining Bellshill police station in 1931, Inch was promoted sergeant in 1936. Undertaking further studies while in police service Inch added Batchelor of Laws LLB to his qualifications and in 1938, at the age of 27, was promoted to inspector in charge of recruit training in the County ... news people obituary sir john inch 1507465.html The Independent obituary 29 November 1993 Retrieved 18 October 2010 ref File Fife.png thumb Fife Constabulary right In 1943, at the age of 32, Inch ... Police history, Fife and Dunfermline Constabularies Retrieved 18 October 2010 ref Inch s success in the role ... of Edinburgh City Police, Inch was a member of the organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games held in the Scottish capital in 1970. A keen sportsman, Inch also served as Chairman of the Police ... 2010 ref Inch was appointed CBE in 1958 CVO in 1969, and invested with knighthood in 1972. Sir John Ritchie Inch died at Edinburgh, 22 November 1993. ref http www.independent.co.uk news people obituary sir john inch 1507465.html The Independent obituary 29 November 1993 Retrieved 18 October 2010 ref ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Inch, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inch, John Ritchie ... DATE OF DEATH 22 November 1993 PLACE OF DEATH Edinburgh, Scotland DEFAULTSORT Inch, John Category ... more details
The Big Inch and its companion project, the Little Big Inch, are petroleum Pipeline transport pipelines constructed during 1942 and 1943 as an emergency war measure from Texas to New Jersey . Until World War II , petroleum products had been transported from the oil fields of Texas to the northeastern ... to Great Britain . The Inch pipelines were conceived as a way to transport increased quantities ... Pipelines, Inc. WEP . The Big Inch was a convert 24 in mm adj on pipeline for crude oil, running ... . The Little Big Inch was a largely parallel twenty inch diameter line intended for refined products that ran from Beaumont, Texas to Little Rock, Arkansas , where it joined the path of the Big Inch. From there it ran along the same right of way as the Big Inch to New Jersey and Pennsylvania . The first crude oil arrived at Phoenixville via the Big Inch on 14 August 1943, and the first refined product in the Little Big Inch arrived on 2 March 1944. The lines were capable of transporting in excess ... Corporation ref name tshaonline.org Handbook of Texas id BB dob8 name Big Inch And Little Big Inch ... did not exceed convert 12 in mm in diameter. Advances in technology led to big inch pipe in diameters of up to twenty four inches ref Texas Eastern, p. 12 ref . Sale The Inch Lines were transferred to the War ... use as natural gas transmission lines. However in 1957, the Little Big Inch was converted ... and New Jersey and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation Regarding the Big Inch and Little Big Inch Pipelines url http www.achp.gov pipelinepa.html publisher Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ... title The Big Inch and Little Big Inch Pipelines The Most Amazing Government Industry Cooperation ... dob8 name Big Inch And Little Big Inch author John G. And Palmer Johnson retrieved December 23, 2008 http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,802860,00.html Big Inch Comes Through, Time Magazine http www.achp.gov pipelinepa.html Preservation and documentation of the Inch Lines Category Crude ... more details
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