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PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-TIP MAKER

Specialty Definition: PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-TIP MAKER

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Occupations

Sets up and operates grinding machines to grind and polishes precious-stone tips of phonograph needles to specified point and finish: Mounts tip in holding shank, using tweezers, chemical dropper, and soldering iron. Sets up grinding wheel, dresses wheel with dressing tool, mounts shank containing tip in spindle or chuck, and grinds tip to form specified point, observing grinding under microscope or through loupe or viewing lens. Polishes tip on buffing wheel. May hold mounted tip against preset grinding wheel to do preliminary grinding. May examine finished tip for accuracy, using shadowgraph. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-TIP MAKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 4F 4E 4F 47 52 41 50 48 2D 4E 45 45 44 4C 45 2D 54 49 50      4D 41 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01001111 01001110 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 00101101 01001110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01001100 01000101 00101101 01010100 01001001 01010000 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#79 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#72 &#45 &#78 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#45 &#84 &#73 &#80 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 004E 004F 0047 0052 0041 0050 0048 002D 004E 0045 0045 0044 004C 0045 002D 0054 0049 0050      004D 0041 004B 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50424948494152355042154839393846391554435024735453952

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