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The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. A joint effort by NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, JAXA, ESA, and CSA, it is the ninth space station to be inhabited.
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The M198 howitzer is a modern artillery piece that has been in use by the militaries of United States and other nations since 1979.
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An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers for predicting the position of celestial bodies, triangulation, and to cast horoscopes.
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The Sukhoi Su-30 is a twin-engine, two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighter for all-weather, air-to-air and air-to-surface deep interdiction missions.
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Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percentage composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation. It is a critical component for both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons.
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Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document, usually individual letters or punctuation.
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MS Majesty of the Seas is a Sovereign-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International.
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Union Pacific 844 is a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built by American Locomotive Company and owned by Union Pacific Railroad.
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The Mazda RX-8 is a 2-door quad coupé sports car manufactured by Mazda Motor Corporation.
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The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift that connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal in Scotland.
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An escalator is a moving staircase for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.
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The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International. It is sometimes compared to the Ford Model T automobile for its role in bringing a new technology to middle-class households.
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The Nintendo GameCube is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo in 2001 as the successor to the Nintendo 64.
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The Airbus A330 is a wide-body twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus, a division of EADS. Some versions of the A330 can accommodate up to 335 passengers or 70 tonnes (150,000 lb) of cargo.
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A keypunch is a device for precisely punching holes into punch cards at specific locations. For Hollerith machines, other unit record machines, and computers, the resulting punched cards contained data to be processed.
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Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station is an Icelandic power plant that generates electricity from geothermal energy.
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A windmill is a machine that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails. Originally developed for milling grain, windmill machinery was adapted to many other industrial uses.
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A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
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P-51, a semi-submersible oil platform owned by Brazilian multinational energy corporation Petrobras.
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An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists of one or more conductors suspended by towers or utility poles.
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A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axial bearing. The wheel is one of the main components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines.
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A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that converts sound, typically the human voice, into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances through satellite.
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The ULPower UL260i is a flat-four, air-cooled, fuel injection aircraft engine, produced by ULPower in Belgium.
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The OLPC XO-1 is an inexpensive subnotebook laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries.
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A Cassegrain-type parabolic antenna for satellite communications in Raisting, Germany.
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A laser pointer is a small handheld device with a power source (usually a battery) and a laser diode emitting a very narrow coherent low-powered laser beam of visible light.
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A phablet (/ˈfæblət/) is a class of a mobile device designed to combine or straddle the form of a smartphone and a tablet. The word phablet is a portmanteau of the words phone and tablet.
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