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What's Expected of Us. " What's Expected of Us " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published on 6 July 2005 by Nature. [2] The story was also included in the 2006 anthology Year's Best SF 11 and in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. [3] [4] [5]
List of screw drives. At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. [1] [2] Usually, it also involves a mating tool, such as a screwdriver, that is used to turn it. Some of the less-common drives are classified as being "tamper-resistant".
Screwdriver with rubber handle. The tool used to drive a slotted screw head is called a standard, common blade, flat-blade, slot-head, straight, flat, flat-tip, [6] or " flat-head " [7] screwdriver. This last usage can be confusing, because the term flat-head also describes a screw with a flat top, designed to install in a countersunk hole.
The sonic screwdriver is a fictional multifunctional tool in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its spin-offs, used by the Doctor.Like the TARDIS, it has become one of the icons of the programme, and spin-off media such as The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood have replicated its functions in devices such as the sonic lipstick, sonic blaster, sonic probe, sonic ...
Robertson screw. A Robertson screw, also known as a square screw [1] or Scrulox, [2] is a type of screw with a square -shaped socket in the screw head and a corresponding square protrusion on the tool. Both the tool and socket have a slight taper. Originally designed to enable the screws to be made using cold forming of the heads, [3] : 79–81 ...
e. Skrewdriver were an English punk rock band formed by Ian Stuart Donaldson in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, in 1976. Originally a punk band, [5] Skrewdriver changed into a white power skinhead rock band after reuniting in the 1980s. [6] Their original line-up split in January 1979 and Donaldson reformed the band with different musicians in ...
A prediction ( Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said" [1]) or forecast is a statement about a future event or about future data. Predictions are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge of forecasters. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference between "prediction" and "estimation"; different ...
Wera Tools is a global tool manufacturer. [15] [16] Its global headquarters and European sales team is based in Wuppertal, Germany. Wera has wholly owned regional subsidiaries, for example in the United Kingdom (based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England) and North America (based in Ontario, Canada), where it is known as Wera Tools Inc. Outside ...