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  2. Frederick S. Holmes - Wikipedia

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    Frederick S. Holmes was an American safe and vault engineer, [1] and inventor who designed the largest vaults in the world. During his career, Holmes designed over 200 vaults throughout the United States, Canada and Japan from 1895 [2] to 1941.

  3. Bank vault - Wikipedia

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    Modern bank vaults are typically made of reinforced concrete and steel, with complex locking mechanisms and security systems. This article covers the design, construction, and security features of bank vaults. This large 24-bolt Diebold vault door at the Winona National Bank was built in the early 1900s. On the right is the back side of the ...

  4. List of games using procedural generation - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft: 2011 Mojang: 3D world primarily made of cube blocks. [31] Effectively infinite. [32] Minecraft Dungeons: 2020: Mojang: Randomly-generated 3D dungeons filled with monsters, traps and puzzles, and treasures. [33] [34] Mini Metro: 2015 Dinosaur Polo Club Abstract 2D levels and audio system. [35] No Man's Sky: 2016 Hello Games

  5. Vault-Tec - Wikipedia

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    Vault-Tec Corporation, otherwise known as Vault-Tec and sometimes called Vault-Tec Industries, [1] is a fictional defense megacorporation from the post-apocalyptic Fallout franchise. Throughout the United States, Vault-Tec created government-funded vaults , large fallout shelters that would serve to shelter civilians and allow for the ...

  6. Barrel vault - Wikipedia

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    A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are typically circular in shape, lending a semi-cylindrical appearance to the total design.

  7. United States government safe and vault door specifications

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    A United States Government Class 5-B vault door, which has been tested and approved by the Government under Fed. Spec. AA-D-600D, is ballistic resistant and affords the following security protection: 20 man-hours against surreptitious entry. 30 man-minutes against covert entry. 10 man-minutes against forced entry.

  8. Undercroft - Wikipedia

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    The Undercroft at Blakeney Guildhall in Norfolk A modern parking undercroft beneath a cinema. An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, [1] often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times.

  9. Tracery - Wikipedia

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    The practicalities of building window tracery in this way severely limited the complexity of designs that could be produced and although plate tracery designs evolved over the course of the 12th and early 13th centuries, in practice, the only real variation was in the number and size of lancets and in the trefoils, quatrefoils and oculi used to ...