Bramah
Americannoun
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AJ Bramah scored 12 points with nine rebounds for the Colonials, while Jon Williams added 10 points.
From Washington Times • Feb. 29, 2020
AJ Bramah added 12 points with eight boards and Jalen Hawkins also had 12 points.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2019
“We believed before the Exhibition opened that we had the best locks in the world,” wrote the Times, “and among us Bramah and Chubb were reckoned quite as impregnable as Gibraltar.”
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2013
The Bramah Precision lock, a “monster” lock that, along with Chubb’s Detector, represented the pinnacle of Britain’s lock supremacy, had not been picked since it was manufactured—in 1790.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2013
Another example, frequently adduced as indicating the falsity of the theory, was the entirely different behaviour of blocks of India-rubber and292 cork, under compression applied by a Bramah press.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
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