• Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie's short story collection...
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    screening device for unit movements. Smoke grenades are generally more complex and emit a far larger amount of smoke than smoke bombs, which are a type of firework...
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  • "Smoke Signals" is the third episode of the American television miniseries Dexter: New Blood, a continuation of the series Dexter. The episode was written...
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    Pyrotechnic Signals, the AN/M8 was listed as obsolete. It is used for smoke screening, target marking, and signalling, although the M18 colored smoke grenades...
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  • obscurants or for generation of signaling smokes. Some are used as a payload of smoke bombs and smoke grenades. Smoke compositions used as obscurants...
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    A smoke detector is a device that senses smoke, typically as an indicator of fire. Smoke detectors/Alarms are usually housed in plastic enclosures, typically...
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  • Smoke Signals is an album by the hardcore punk band MDC. The original vinyl release appeared on the band's own Radical Records label in 1986. It was finally...
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  • Smoke Signals is a studio album by the American singer Smokey Robinson, released in 1986 by Motown. "Be Kind to the Growing Mind", featuring the Temptations...
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  • Smoke Signal Broadcasting, Inc. (SSB), later known as Smoke Signal, was an American computer company founded in 1976 by Frederic Jerome "Ric" Hammond of...
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    Colored smoke is a kind of smoke created by an aerosol of small particles of a suitable pigment or dye. Colored smoke can be used for smoke signals, often...
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  • A distress signal, also known as a distress call, is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help. Distress signals are communicated by transmitting...
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    control (fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defensive and offensive capabilities in the military (smoke screen), cooking, or smoking (tobacco...
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    The M18 Colored Smoke Grenade is a US Army grenade used as a ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling device, a target or landing zone marking device...
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    include unwanted signals conflicting with desired signals (crosstalk). The reduction of noise is covered in part under the heading of signal integrity. The...
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    highly sensitive laser detection unit. If smoke is detected, the systems alarm is triggered, and signals are then processed through centralized monitoring...
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    Flare gun (redirect from Signal pistol)
    or signal pistol, is a large-bore handgun that discharges flares, blanks and smoke. The flare gun is typically used to produce a distress signal. The...
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  • Holy Smoke! is a 1999 independent romantic comedy drama film directed by Jane Campion, and starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. The plot follows an...
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    RG-6 (category Signal cables)
    applications, carrying either base band analog video signals or serial digital interface (SDI) signals; in these applications, the center conductor is ordinarily...
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    A smoke screen is smoke released to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks, aircraft, or ships. Smoke screens are commonly...
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    Garrett Morgan (category Traffic signals)
    notable inventions were a type of three-way traffic light, and a protective 'smoke hood' notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. Morgan...
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  • Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in the 1970s that is used to set up and tear down telephone calls on...
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    operation of analog signals to some degree. Digital signals having more than two states are occasionally used; circuitry using such signals is called multivalued...
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    personnel, and 7 crew members on board. No mayday call was received by air traffic control, although signals that smoke had been detected in one of the aircraft's...
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    Code of Signals, 2005 ed. (IMO IA994E), IMO – International Maritime Organization, 2005, ISBN 978-92-801-4198-6;International Code of Signals for Visual...
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  • Smoke + Mirrors is the second studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. The album was recorded during 2014 at the band's home studio in...
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    shown wildfire smoke can have a cooling effect. Research in 2007 stated that black carbon in snow changed temperature three times more than atmospheric...
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    fire, smoke, carbon monoxide, or other fire-related emergencies. Fire alarm systems are required in most commercial buildings. They may include smoke detectors...
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    was called the "absolute block system". Fixed mechanical signals began to replace hand signals from the 1830s. These were originally worked locally, but...
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    (2): 94–104. doi:10.1136/tc.11.2.94. PMC 1763854. PMID 12034999. "No smoke signals a boom for pubs, clubs". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 September 2007...
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    Flare (redirect from Rocket signals)
    option for signaling distress, they have since been surpassed by improved technology. Distress signals can now be sent using automated radio signals from a...
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