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Igloo Products Corp. is an American manufacturer of ice chests, drink containers, and supporting accessories. It is headquartered in Katy, Waller County, Texas, United States. Igloo is a subsidiary of the Dometic Group. The company was founded in 1947 in Katy and is known for its blue and white coolers.
This is a list of Antarctic ice shelves. An image of Antarctica differentiating its landmass (dark grey) from its ice shelves (minimum extent, light grey, and maximum extent, white) Edge of Ekstrom Ice Shelf. Ice shelves are attached to a large portion of the Antarctic coastline. Their total area is 1,541,700 km 2. [1]
Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (1 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Ice shelves of Antarctica" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.
Danbury Ice Company [1] Dry Ice International [1] Florida Ice and Farm Company; Follett Ice – a privately held company that manufactures beverage and ice for the healthcare, foodservice, hospitality, and supermarket industries. Headquartered in Easton, Pennsylvania, the company operates two manufacturing facilities in Easton and Gdansk, Poland.
Ice accumulates on helicopter rotor blades and aircraft propellers causing weight and aerodynamic imbalances that are amplified due to their rotation. Anti-ice systems installed on jet engines or turboprops help prevent airflow problems and avert the risk of serious internal engine damage from ingested ice. These concerns are most acute with ...
Thickness between 1 and 15 mm (1 ⁄ 16 and 9 ⁄ 16 in), irregular shape with diameters from 12 to 45 mm (1 ⁄ 2 to 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in). The evaporator of the flake ice machine is a vertically placed drum-shaped stainless steel container, equipped with a rotating blade that spins and scratches the ice off the inner wall of the drum.
The company was purchased by Frank Gibson, a competing manufacturer of "ice refrigerators" in the early 1900s. It was the largest in its industry at the time. In 1931, the company began making electric refrigerators. [1] During the Second World War, Gibson manufactured 1,078 Waco CG-4 troop and cargo assault gliders under license.