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  2. Striking clock - Wikipedia

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    The Kremlin Clock on the Moscow Kremlin rings in 2012.. The most basic sort of striking clock simply sounds a bell once every hour; this is called a passing strike clock. . Passing strike was simple to implement mechanically; all that must be done is to attach a cam to a shaft that rotates once per hour; the cam raises and then lets a hammer fall that strikes t

  3. Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia

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    [1] A goal of the technique is to reduce the effect of internal and external interruptions on focus and flow. A pomodoro is indivisible; when interrupted during a Pomodoro, either the other activity must be recorded and postponed (using the inform – negotiate – schedule – call back strategy [6]) or the pomodoro must be abandoned. [1] [4] [7]

  4. Water clock - Wikipedia

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    In Babylonian times, time was measured with temporal hours. So, as seasons changed, so did the length of a day. "To define the length of a 'night watch' at the summer solstice, one had to pour two mana of water into a cylindrical clepsydra; its emptying indicated the end of the watch. One-sixth of mana had to be added each succeeding half-month.

  5. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    The minute hand rotates more slowly around the dial. It takes one hour (sixty minutes) to make a complete rotation from 12 to 12. For every rotation of the minute hand, the hour hand will move from one hour mark to the next. The hour hand moves slowest of all, taking half a day (twelve hours) to make a complete rotation.

  6. "W" Hour - Wikipedia

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    "W" Hour, also spelled as W-Hour (Polish: Godzina „W”'), was the codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German-occupied Warsaw, and hence the Warsaw Uprising. The exact time was 5:00 PM on 1 August 1944.

  7. Carbon monoxide detector - Wikipedia

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    The alarm points on carbon monoxide detectors are not a simple alarm level (as in smoke detectors) but are a concentration-time function. At lower concentrations, e.g. 100 parts per million (PPM), the detector does not sound an alarm for many tens of minutes. At 400 PPM, the alarm sounds within a few minutes.

  8. Pound the Alarm - Wikipedia

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    "Pound the Alarm" is a Eurodance song produced by RedOne, Falk, and Rami.It is composed in common time in the key of C ♯ minor with a tempo of 125 beats per minute. [8] It moves in common time and follows a chord progression of C ♯ m–G ♯ m–A–B, and Nicki's vocals span from B 3 to A 4. [9]

  9. Fire-resistance rating - Wikipedia

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    This is the rating required to protect microfilm, microfiche, and other film-based information storage media. Above 150 °F (65.5 °C) film is distorted by the heat and information is lost. A Class 150-2 Hour vault must keep the temperature below 150 °F. for at least two hours, with temperatures up to 2,000 °F. (1,093.3 °C) outside the vault.