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  2. Potato cannon - Wikipedia

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    Potato cannon. A potato cannon, also known as a potato gun or potato launcher, is a pipe-based cannon that uses air pressure (pneumatic), or combustion of a flammable gas (aerosol, propane, etc.), [1][2][3][4] to fire projectiles, usually potatoes. [5] A simple design consists of a pipe sealed on one end, with a reducer on the other end to ...

  3. Spud gun - Wikipedia

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    Spud gun. A typical factory-made toy die-cast spud gun. The cap attached to the muzzle converts it into a water pistol. A spud gun or potato gun is a small toy gun used to fire a fragment of potato. To operate, one punctures the surface of a potato with the gun's hollow tip and pries out a small pellet which fits in the muzzle.

  4. 32nd Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The majority of the division and its equipment was split up and shipped by railroad, while some were transported on five Liberty Ships. Each Australian state had a different rail gauge (or width), and the equipment and men had to be offloaded at each state's boundary and reloaded onto a new train. The division's trains crossed four states ...

  5. Milton Levine - Wikipedia

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    Levine and Cossman also successfully mass marketed the potato gun, [5] toy shrunken heads [6] to hang from car rear view mirrors and balloon animals. [7] In 1956, while at a Fourth of July picnic at his sister's pool, he spotted a mound of ants. This inspired him to found Uncle Milton's Toys, which is best known for its Uncle Milton's Ant Farm ...

  6. George Lerner - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York and worked during his lifetime as an artist, graphic designer, and model maker. [2] In 1949, he designed and produced a first generation set of plastic face pieces. The push pin shaped noses, ears, eyes, and mouth parts could be pushed into fruits or vegetables to transform the food into ...

  7. M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun - Wikipedia

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    M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. Colt–Browning M1895/14 machine gun in 7mm Mauser caliber, possibly used in the Mexican Revolution. The Colt–Browning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 ...

  8. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    Potato chips, also known as crisps in British English, are thin slices of potato that are deep fried or baked until crispy. Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. The basic chips are cooked and salted, and additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including seasonings, herbs, spices ...

  9. Toy gun - Wikipedia

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    Toy gun. Toy guns are toys which imitate real guns, but are designed for recreational sport or casual play by children. From hand-carved wooden replicas to factory-produced pop guns and cap guns, toy guns come in all sizes, prices and materials such as wood, metal, plastic or any combination thereof.