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  2. Unusual types of gramophone records - Wikipedia

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    The most common diameter sizes for gramophone records are 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch (300 mm, 250 mm, and 180 mm). [1] Early American shellac records were all 7-inch until 1901, when 10-inch records were introduced. 12-inch records joined them in 1903. [ 2 ]

  3. Rockit (instrumental) - Wikipedia

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    The 2-inch 16-track master tape containing rhythm parts and scratching needed to be transferred to 24-track 2-inch in order for Hancock to work with it at his home studio. Laswell and Bisi took the tape to RPM Studios in Greenwich Village , but instead of simply transferring the format, they added some extra sounds, especially a stab of guitar ...

  4. Ampex 2-inch helical VTR - Wikipedia

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    The 2-inch-wide video tape used was one mil (0.001 in or 0.0254 mm) thick. The VTRs were mostly used by industrial companies, educational institutions, and a few for in-flight entertainment . The capstan tape speed is 3.7 inches per second, which provided a long record time of up to five hours on large reels.

  5. 2-inch RP - Wikipedia

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    A Sea Vixen with underwing 2-inch rocket pods between drop tanks and Firestreak air-to-air missiles. The 2-inch RP, short for Rocket Projectile, 2-inch, Number 1 Mark 1, was an unguided rocket weapon developed by the Royal Navy in the 1950s. It is generally similar to contemporary rockets like the SNEB and FFAR, although somewhat smaller.

  6. Rocket (Def Leppard song) - Wikipedia

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    "Rocket" is a song recorded by English rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. It was released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from the album and reached the Top 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart . [ 3 ]

  7. Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song) - Wikipedia

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    "Rocket" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was the fourth and penultimate single from their second album, Siamese Dream , and was written by Billy Corgan . The song charted in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.

  8. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    For example, when British money was decimalized and the new penny of 1/100 pound was adopted, the previous penny of 1/240 pound became known as the old penny. Old-fashioned refers to any practice which is no longer customary, e.g. in the context of dress sense, hairstyle or wording, as opposed to (the) fashion , which refers to anything which ...

  9. 2.25-Inch Sub-Caliber Aircraft Rocket - Wikipedia

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    Designated 2.25-Inch Sub-Caliber Aircraft Rocket, the resulting rocket was a joint project between the Bureau of Ordnance and the National Defense Research Committee. [2] As its name implied, the rocket was designed as a sub-calibre weapon compared to the FFAR, being only 2.25 inches (57 mm) in diameter, but weighted to be ballistically similar ...