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  2. Dripping candle wax sign - Wikipedia

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    The dripping candle wax sign is a radiologic sign seen on X-rays of bone that indicates melorheostosis (or Leri disease), a rare benign bone disease characterized by bone hypertrophy, dysplasia, and sclerosis. [1] Sclerosis typically affects one side of the cortex of the involved bone, appearing similar to wax melting down one side of a candle. [1]

  3. Candle clock - Wikipedia

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    Al-Jazari's candle clock. Al-Jazari described a candle clock in 1206. [4] It included a dial to display the time and, for the first time, employed a bayonet fitting, a fastening mechanism still used in modern times. [5] The English engineer and historian Donald Routledge Hill described one of al-Jazari's candle clocks as follows:

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the candle clock was attributed by the Anglo-Saxons to Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (r. 871–889), who used six candles marked at intervals of one inch (25 mm), each made from 12 pennyweights of wax, and made to be 12 centimetres (4.7 in) in height and of a uniform thickness. [65]

  5. The Persistence of Memory - Wikipedia

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    The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. [3] It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Adès wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our ...

  6. Hermle Clocks - Wikipedia

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    Hermle manufactures mechanical mechanisms, battery operated mechanisms, accessories such as dial, pendulums, weight shells, and do-it-yourself clock kits as well as finished clocks. Hermle is a manufacturer that sells to the wholesale industry and operates in over 80 countries with offices in Germany and the United States , since 1977, as ...

  7. Wax melter - Wikipedia

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    Wax melters are devices used in the packaging and candle-making industries to melt wax. The type of tank used to melt candle wax is quite different from adhesives, solder, and tar. For example, tanks used for adhesives may need to be heated up to 260 °C (500 °F) [ 1 ] whilst an organic soy wax will be ruined at over 60 °C (140 °F) and ...