Toshiba had created a hard drive that measured 1.8 inches in diameter in the late 90s.
The "Tunguska Event" that flattened over 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 was caused by a stony asteroid only 50 meters in diameter exploding in the lower atmosphere.
The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).
Data was stored on rewritable magneto-optical disks 2.5in (64mm) in diameter housed for protection in a square plastic shell.
Temperature Concepts developed a tablet that is less than 1 inch in diameter, and is placed in the armpit (it has an adhesive).
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When Catherine Bencheghib and her family moved from Paris to Seminyak in Bali, she had the couple design 12 ceramic lily pads in different sizes the largest more than 30 inches in diameter that float in the four big ponds in her garden.
It begins as a raised itchy bump that resembles an insect bite, but soon turns into a painless ulcer, usually one to three centimeters in diameter usually with a black center in the middle.
It is the pits, which are three-quarters of a micron in diameter, three microns deep and arranged in a grid four-fifths of a micron apart, that do the trapping.
At 180 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, the Falcon 9 rocket is tiny in comparison to the football-field-long Saturn V rockets that carried Apollo spacecraft into orbit.
Measurements taken early this week showed the hole measured 324 feet in diameter and is 50 feet deep, but in one corner it goes down 422 feet, said John Boudreaux, director of the Office of Homeland Security in Assumption Parish, about 30 miles south of Baton Rouge.
The vases, about 10 inches high and three inches in diameter, are made of bronze, an alloy rich in copper.
The first, called Ease, is a mere foot in diameter by 16-inches tall and can fly safely in tight spaces or through open windows or doors, thanks to its petite size and ducted rotors.
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At some 2.7 kms in diameter (or some nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size), 1998 QE2 is due to make its latest closest approach to earth at 1:59 Pacific Daylight Time (4:59 EDT) today.
The meteor was several yards in diameter and weighed around 10 metric tons, Russia's Academy of Sciences said in a statement.
The Kulluk is a circular barge 266 feet in diameter with a funnel-shaped, reinforced steel hull that allows it to operate in ice.
It's an oval of motus, or tiny islets, about 16 miles in diameter that wreaths a lagoon lauded by Jacques Cousteau as having the richest marine life in the South Pacific.
Although there were plenty of reports of severe weather, there weren't widespread reports of extreme weather, with winds in excess of 75 mph and hail measuring 2 inches in diameter, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service East region headquarters in Bohemia, N.
The wheels, nearly 3 inches in diameter, facilitate more efficient coasting once you've built up momentum, and better absorb bumps in the road.
Over 300 meters in diameter and weighing 25 million tons, it is set to come within 20, 000 miles of Earth in 2029.
That changed in the mid-1980s, when microscopic sieves--spread throughout steel tubes 30 feet long and 4 to 5 inches in diameter--were developed to filter out undesirable elements before the whey is dried to a powder for use in food manufacturing.
That changed in the mid-1980s, when microscopic sieves--spread throughout steel tubes that are 10 meters long and 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter--were developed to filter out undesirable elements before the whey was dried to a powder for use in food manufacturing.
To the south, on Stocking Island, luminescent red starfish grow to over a foot in diameter.
Patch reef: small colonies of corals, sometimes less than 10 m (33 ft) in diameter.
The crown is 23.5cm (9.2in) high and, at the widest part, 31cm (12.2in) in diameter.
The electrodes are 1.27 millimeters in diameter, "about the thickness of angel hair pasta, " Gross explained.
They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
Traversing their land is a natural gas pipeline, 36 inches in diameter and 6 feet underground.
Each time you migrate in diameter, you dramatically expand the surface area of the wafer.
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The nylon parachute 70 feet in diameter will slow the craft to just under the speed of sound.
The stone is about 25cm in diameter and engraved with an early Christian cross.
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