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A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water to the fire. Within the context of a building or bridge, a standpipe serves the same purpose as a fire hydrant.
Fire hydrant in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. A fire hydrant, fireplug, [1] firecock (archaic), [2] hydrant riser or Johnny Pump [3] [better source needed] is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply. It is a component of active fire protection.
This article is confused and confusing. There are a number of commonly used diagrams, the Latimer diagram, the Frost (sometimes called Frost - Ebsworth) diagram and the pourbaix diagram (also known as Eh-pH diagrams). They are all closely related. A good summary is here . The article seems to describe both the Frost and pourbaix as being the ...
Watkins, James A. (1987), Turf Irrigation Manual (5th ed.), Telsco; Williams, Gardner Stewart; Hazen, Allen (1905), Hydraulic tables: showing the loss of head due to the friction of water flowing in pipes, aqueducts, sewers, etc. and the discharge over weirs (first ed.), New York: John Wiley and Sons; Williams and Hazen, Second edition, 1909
Completed Tornado Diagram. Tornado diagrams, also called tornado plots, tornado charts or butterfly charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on.
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Star Trek Technical Manuals are a number of both official and fan-produced works detailing the technology of the fictional Star Trek universe; most pertain to starship design, though others target equipment used in the various Star Trek television series and films.
Frostproof is located between two lakes: Lake Clinch and Lake Reedy. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), all land.