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  2. Envelope - Wikipedia

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    An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin, flat material. It is designed to contain a flat object, such as a letter or card. Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus, a short-arm cross or a kite. These shapes allow the envelope structure to be made by folding the sheet sides ...

  3. Edwin Hill (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Occupation (s) Inventor, Controller of Stamps. Known for. Inventing first letter scale and a machine to fold envelopes. Edwin Hill (25 November 1793 - 6 November 1876) [1] was a Victorian postal official, the older brother of Rowland Hill, who invented a mechanical system to make envelopes and who campaigned for legal and political change.

  4. Windowed envelope - Wikipedia

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    Windowed envelope. US Patent 701,839 for a windowed envelope. Modern envelope with a single window for the recipient address. A windowed envelope is a conventional envelope with a transparent (typically PET or BOPS Bi-oriented polystyrene [1] plastic film) window to allow the recipient's address to be printed on the paper contained within.

  5. Postage stamp - Wikipedia

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    3. Denomination. 4. Country name. A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...

  6. Envelope system - Wikipedia

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    The envelope system, also known as the envelope budgeting method or cash stuffing, is a popular method for visualizing and maintaining a flexible budget. The key idea is to prioritize cash income to meet separate categories of household expenses in physically separate envelopes.

  7. Cylinder seal - Wikipedia

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    Linescan camera image (reversed to resemble an impression). A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.

  8. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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    Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.

  9. Synthesizer - Wikipedia

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    Envelopes control how sounds change over time. They may control parameters such as amplitude (volume), filters (frequencies), or pitch. The most common envelope is the ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release) envelope: Attack is the time taken for initial run-up of level from nil to peak, beginning when the note is triggered.