applying tension

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• Double-tension — is a method of applying tension to drum heads. Drum manufacturers use several methods to apply tension to drum heads; the preferred way is to tighten the heads with a hoop that is held tight to the drum shell with a number of individual threaded… …   Wikipedia

• Rope-tension — is the oldest system for applying tension to drum heads and was common until the late 19th Century.A long rope (or less commonly, a series of ropes) is passed alternately between the top and bottom drum head hoops that are held to the shell by… …   Wikipedia

• Surface tension — For the work of fiction, see Surface Tension (short story). Surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid that causes it to behave as an elastic sheet. It allows insects, such as the water strider (pond skater, UK), to walk on water.… …   Wikipedia

• Dynamic tension — is the name Charles Atlas gave to the system of exercises that he first popularized in the 1920s. Dynamic Tension is a self resistance exercise method which pits muscle against muscle. The practitioner tenses the muscles of given body part and… …   Wikipedia

• Haute Tension — Infobox Film name = Haute Tension caption = Original French language poster director = Alexandre Aja writer = Alexandre Aja Grégory Levasseur starring = Cécile de France Maïwenn Le Besco music = Francois Eudes Chanfrault cinematography = Maxime… …   Wikipedia

• Restoration device — A restoration device, or tugger , is a device used for applying tension to skin during the process of non surgical foreskin restoration.cite book | last=Bigelow | first=Jim | title=The Joy of Uncircumcising!: Exploring Circumcision: History,… …   Wikipedia

• Foreskin restoration — is the process of expanding the residual skin on the penis, via surgical or non surgical methods. It can be performed for several reasons, among them being a desire to create the appearance of a natural foreskin (prepuce) covering the glans penis …   Wikipedia

• Denver Millennium Bridge — Mast of Denver’s Millennium Bridge rises to 200 feet (61m), connecting to the footbridge s deck and foundation anchors with post tensioned steel cables. Carries Pedestrians …   Wikipedia

• Quick release skewer — A quick release skewer is the rod, threaded on one end and with a cam assembly on the other, a part of the quick release mechanism, a lever operated cam system used with a hollow axle for securing the wheels on a bicycle. Wheels equipped with… …   Wikipedia

• Blood phobia — (also, AE: Hemophobia, BE: Haemophobia) is the extreme and irrational fear of blood. Acute cases of this fear can cause physical reactions that are uncommon in most other fears, specifically vasovagal syncope (fainting). [cite web title = The… …   Wikipedia

• Freyssinet, Eugène — ▪ French engineer born , July 13, 1879, Objat, Fr. died June 8, 1962, St. Martin Vésubie       French civil engineer who successfully developed pre stressed concrete i.e., concrete beams or girders in which steel wire is embedded under tension,… …   Universalium