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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. 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 ...

  6. List of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog ...

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    A38 Cal. .50 machine gun AN/M2 (aircraft) A39 Cal. .50 machine gun heavy, aircraft fixed, M2. A40 Cal. .22 machine gun trainer M1. A41. A42 M3 and M3A4 hand cart, general utility [2] M3 and M3A4 hand cart, general utility. M4 hand cart, M3 cart configured for transportation of .30-caliber M1917A1 Browning Machinegun.

  7. 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.

  8. Simplot - Wikipedia

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    Simplot was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old John Richard Simplot near the agricultural community of Declo in south central Idaho, United States. [2] During the early 1940s, the business expanded, providing the military with dehydrated onions and potatoes during World War II. The firm was incorporated as the J. R. Simplot Company in 1955.

  9. Mr. Potato Head - Wikipedia

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    Materials. Plastic. Felt (1952–1983) Mr. Potato Head is an American toy produced by Hasbro since 1952. It consists of a plastic model of a potato "head" to which a variety of plastic parts can attach; typically ears, eyes, shoes, hat, nose, mustache, pipe (1952–1987), pants (1973–1983, 2010–present), headphones (2024–present), glasses ...