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The Troy Laundry Machinery Co., Ltd. was a Troy, New York, laundry machinery manufacturing company which incorporated on January 1, 1881. The company made hydraulic washers, wringers (mangles), starching machines, dampners, calenders, and shirt, collar, and cuff ironers. The company operated branches in New York, Chicago, London, and Berlin. [1]
Pressure ratio may refer to: Compression ratio, for piston engines; Overall pressure ratio, for gas turbine engines; Pressure ratio, the compression ratio of a gas ...
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. [1]: 445 Gauge pressure (also spelled gage pressure) [a] is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure. Various units are used to express pressure.
A manual override (MO) or manual analog override (MAO) is a mechanism where control is taken from an automated system and given to the user. For example, a manual override in photography refers to the ability for the human photographer to turn off the automatic aperture sizing, automatic focusing, or any other automated system on the camera. [1]
By the late nineteenth century, technological advances and commercial pressure allowed construction to begin in earnest. Noted French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps led the initial attempt (1880–1889) to build a sea-level canal, as he had previously achieved in the building of the Suez Canal (1859–1869).
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in the Bronx, New York City, [a] the only child of Natalie (née Weinstein-Bacal; 1901–1969), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales.
Troy Williams (born December 30, 1994) is an American professional basketball player. He previously attended and played college basketball for Indiana . High school career
The lawn mower was invented in 1830 by Edwin Beard Budding of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. [1] Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was granted a British patent on August 31, 1830.