After the officials scrambled to find an old-fashioned steel tape measure, Beamon's distance of 8 . 90 meters ( 29 feet, 2 1 / 2 inches ) was posted.
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In 1914 Elstree Studios was founded, and acquired in 1928 by German-born Ludwig Blattner, who invented a magnetic steel tape recording system that was adopted by the BBC in 1930.
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For common tape measurements, the tape used is a steel tape with coefficient of thermal expansion C equal to 0.000, 011, 6 units per unit length per degree Celsius change.
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Before the counter is used, the bicycle must first be calibrated by being ridden on a straight section of road between marks whose separation has been accurately measured by steel tape.
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Despite this, an additional had to be built and were accurately measured with steel tape to the nearest in order to meet the requirements of the International Ski Federation ( FIS ).
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Whenever a record ( or potential record ) occurs, that measurement is taken ( again ) with a steel tape, and observed by at least three officials ( plus usually the meet referee ).
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The only tools you will need are a squeegee, a spray bottle, a steel tape measure, a metal straight edge, a few lint-free cloths and a utility knife with a generous supply of sharp blades.
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"It has to be cut by diamonds, but it's extremely delicate, " polisher Paulo Magarreiro says, banging a steel tape measure on his marble workbench to show how easy it is to scratch the rock.
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"Spiral wound gaskets " are also used in high pressure pipelines and are made with stainless steel outer and inner rings and a center filled with spirally wound stainless steel tape wound together with graphite and PTFE, formed in V shape.
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Two other crew members held the ends of a 66-foot measuring chain ( 80 of them made a mile, and 10 square chains equaled an acre ), or a steel tape that was 50 to 200 feet long, and figured out the distance between the two points.
