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  2. The Chopping Block (Washington) - Wikipedia

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    The mountain is officially named Pinnacle Peak [2] on maps, but hardly anyone calls it by that name. [3] The nearest higher peak is Mount Degenhardt , 0.6 mi (0.97 km) to the northeast. [ 1 ] The Chopping Block can be seen from the North Cascades National Park Newhalem visitor center, weather permitting.

  3. Pinnacle Peak (Whatcom County, Washington) - Wikipedia

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    Pinnacle Peak is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. [4] Most weather fronts originating in the Pacific Ocean move northeast toward the Cascade Mountains . As fronts approach the North Cascades , they are forced upward by the peaks of the Cascade Range ( orographic lift ), causing them to drop their moisture ...

  4. Pinnacle Mountain (Washington) - Wikipedia

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    Pinnacle Mountain is composed primarily of granodiorite and hornblende quartz diorite, minerals of the Cardinal Peak pluton. [4] The North Cascades feature some of the most rugged topography in the Cascade Range with craggy peaks, spires, ridges, and deep glacial valleys. Geological events occurring many years ago created the diverse topography ...

  5. Carbon microphone - Wikipedia

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    Carbon microphone from Western Electric telephone handset, around 1976. A disassembled Ericsson carbon microphone with carbon particles visible. The carbon microphone, also known as carbon button microphone, button microphone, or carbon transmitter, is a type of microphone, a transducer that converts sound to an electrical audio signal.

  6. Pinnacle Peak (King County, Washington) - Wikipedia

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    Pinnacle Peak, [3] also known as Mount Peak, [4] is an 1,801-foot-elevation forest-covered summit located in King County of Washington state. It is part of the Cascade Range and is set at the western edge of the range, immediately south of Enumclaw, Washington and 25 miles northwest of Mount Rainier .

  7. Measurement microphone calibration - Wikipedia

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    Although a given calibrated microphone will often have been calibrated by other (secondary) methods, all can be traced (through a process of dissemination) back to a microphone calibrated using the reciprocity method at a National Measurement Institute. Reciprocity calibration is a specialist process, and because it forms the basis of the ...

  8. Decca tree - Wikipedia

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    Well, we used to have a thing called a Decca Tree which was an arrangement where [at] the front edge of an orchestra about 3.2 metres up in the sky you would have a centre microphone roughly in line with the edge of the orchestra, and then maybe 2.5 feet back and 5 feet apart you would have 2 more forming a triangle, omnidirectional microphones.

  9. Cascade Range - Wikipedia

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    The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as many of those in the North Cascades , and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades .