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  2. Diesel engine - Wikipedia

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    1952 Shell Oil film showing the development of the diesel engine from 1877. The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

  3. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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    As of version 4.0 of the Linux kernel, released on 12 April 2015, VirtIO block driver, the SCSI layer (which is used by Serial ATA drivers), device mapper framework, loop device driver, unsorted block images (UBI) driver (which implements erase block management layer for flash memory devices) and RBD driver (which exports Ceph RADOS objects as ...

  4. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

  5. Anchorage, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The motivation is straightforward: the "railbelt" between Anchorage and Fairbanks contains most of Alaska's population. Robert Atwood, owner of the Anchorage Times and a tireless booster for the city, championed the move. Alaskans rejected attempts to move the capital in 1960 and 1962, but in 1974, as Alaska's center of population moved away ...

  6. COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    [211] [212] However, immunity from the vaccines was found to wane over time, requiring people to get booster doses of the vaccine to maintain protection against COVID‑19. [210] The COVID‑19 vaccines are widely credited for their role in reducing the spread of COVID‑19 and reducing the severity and death caused by COVID‑19.

  7. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    Improvement of HDD characteristics over time Parameter Started with (1957) Improved to Improvement Capacity (formatted) 3.75 megabytes [18] 32 terabytes (as of 2024) [19] [20]