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A British engineer detonates an explosive charge to create a mouse-hole in a compound wall in Afghanistan. Mouse-holes can be made in light interior walls by hand or with small arms. More substantial walls require the use of explosives such as a satchel charge or a large caliber vehicle-mounted cannon or tank gun. [14]
Mouse Trap (originally titled Mouse Trap Game) is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players. The game was one of the first mass-produced, three-dimensional board games. Over the course of the game, players at first cooperate to build a working Rube Goldberg-like mouse trap.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbors, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Researchers believe it likely that Emerson used a modified version of the theme from his journal in a lecture given at some point after 1855, with the ...
The cave requires ladder and line or single rope technique (SRT) kits — a single 50 metres (160 ft) rope and 6 maillons/krabs is recommended.. A wide variety of trips are possible, this is a good cave to visit in lieu of nearby Otter Hole when the sump is closed.
Cinemagoers have complained of an apparent “plot hole” in Trap, the latest film from director M Night Shyamalan.. The movie, released in UK cinemas last week, follows a serial killer known as ...
The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design. [4]
James Henry Atkinson (c. 1849–1942) was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. [1] He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, [2] [3] but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.
The UK Environment Agency has guidelines [1] for the design of eel and elver passes for employment in weirs, tidal flaps & gates and sluice structures. A variety of materials for example HDPE and stainless steel are used to construct brush and bristle surfaces, pipes, ducts, mouse holes, cat flaps and pet door types of eel and elver passes.