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  2. Staple gun - Wikipedia

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    A manual staple gun An electric stapler. A staple gun or powered stapler is a hand-held machine used to drive heavy metal staples into wood, plastic, or masonry.Staple guns are used for many different applications and to affix a variety of materials, including insulation, house wrap, roofing, wiring, carpeting, upholstery, and hobby and craft materials.

  3. Morris Abrams - Wikipedia

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    Abrams was the first generation of his family to be born in the United States. [citation needed]Arrow brand staple gun.. In 1929, [1] Morris Abrams founded Arrow Fastener. At first, he sold staples for staplers currently on the market, [citation needed] but by 1940 he had received his first stapler patent, [2] and by 1943, was assigning his patents to Arrow Fastener, [3] a process he continued ...

  4. 8-inch/55-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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    The 8"/55 caliber gun (spoken "eight-inch-fifty-five-caliber") formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun barrel had an internal diameter of 8 inches (203 mm), and the barrel was 55 calibers long (barrel length is 8 inch × 55 = 440 inches ...

  5. 8-inch gun M1 - Wikipedia

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    The 8-inch gun M1 was a 203 mm towed heavy gun developed in the United States. At 32,584 m (35,635 yd), it had the longest range of any US Army field artillery weapon in World War II . It was also used in small numbers by the British Army .

  6. BL 8-inch Mk VIII naval gun - Wikipedia

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    The BL 8 inch gun Mark VIII [note 1] was the main battery gun used on the Royal Navy's County-class cruisers, [note 2] in compliance with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. . This treaty allowed ships of not more than 10,000 tons standard displacement and with guns no larger than 8 inches (203 mm) to be excluded from total tonnage limitations on a nation's capital sh

  7. 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30) - Wikipedia

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    Soviet 122 mm (4.8 in) howitzers used different ammunition to 122 mm (4.8 in) guns, although there is some compatibility. In the case of ammunition for the D-30, the standard 122 mm (4.8 in) howitzer shell weight of 21.8 kg (48 lb) was retained, with a metal cartridge case holding variable propelling charges.

  8. 14-inch/45-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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    At a 15-degree angle, the guns could fire a shell out to 23,000 yd (21,000 m). Each individual gun weighed 142,492 lb (64,633 kg) with the breech and measured 53 ft 6.5 in (16.32 m) in length. [3] Each of the original Mark 1 built-up guns consisted of a tube without liner, jacket, eight hoops and a screw box liner. To compensate for the problem ...

  9. BL 5.5-inch medium gun - Wikipedia

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    When 6-gun batteries were introduced in the late 1950s, medium regiments had 18 guns and the third battery in each field regiment was equipped with 5.5 inch guns instead of 25-pounder guns. It remained in UK service with Territorial Army regiments until 1980 and in Australian service until replaced by M198 in about 1984.