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The Eureka Tent & Awning Company was established prior to 1895 in Binghamton, New York. [2] The company's initial workshop on Binghamton's Commercial Avenue produced custom tents, awnings, wagon covers, horse blankets, and flags. The company utilized early manufacturing processes, including using dyes to cut stars and sewing strips of red and ...
Tent. A modern two-person, lightweight hiking dome tent; it is tied to rocks as there is nowhere to drive stakes on this rock shelf. A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents ...
The Eureka is a privately owned 3 ft (914 mm) gauge steam locomotive based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is one of three preserved Baldwin class 8-18 C 4-4-0 locomotives in the United States, of which it is the only operable example. [2] It is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. [3][4]
Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Clackamas County, Oregon, about 60 miles (97 km) east of Portland. Constructed from 1936 to 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, it was built and furnished by local artisans during the Great Depression. Timberline Lodge was dedicated September 28, 1937, by President ...
Contains either high-pressure compressed air or air at lower than atmospheric pressure (vacuum), depending on whether the locomotive has an air brake or vacuum brake system. [6]: 483–486 [3]: 1. Water compartment. Tank for water to be used by the boiler to produce steam. [3]: 79. Coal bunker.
[1]: 51 The tree line is sometimes distinguished from a lower timberline, which is the line below which trees form a forest with a closed canopy. [2]: 151 [3]: 18 At the tree line, tree growth is often sparse, stunted, and deformed by wind and cold. This is sometimes known as krummholz (German for "crooked wood"). [4]: 58
A tipi or tepee (/ ˈtiːpi / TEE-pee) is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles. The loanword came into English usage from the Dakota [1 ...
Tent map. Graph of tent map function. Example of iterating the initial condition x0 = 0.4 over the tent map with μ = 1.9. In mathematics, the tent map with parameter μ is the real -valued function fμ defined by. the name being due to the tent -like shape of the graph of fμ. For the values of the parameter μ within 0 and 2, fμ maps the ...