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  2. Carrie Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Carrie Furnace is a retired blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania. It was one of the structures comprising the Homestead Steel Works. The Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884 and they operated until 1982. During its peak, the site produced 1,000 to 1,250 tons of iron ...

  3. Limit switch - Wikipedia

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    A limit switch with a roller-lever operator; this is installed on a gate on a canal lock, and indicates the position of a gate to a control system A limit switch mounted on a moving part of a bridge In electrical engineering , a limit switch is a switch operated by the motion of a machine part or the presence of an object.

  4. Carrier Global - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s, Carrier stopped using the "Day & Night" brand (which was the "D" in the BDP division, or Bryant-Day & Night-Payne) but it was revived in 2006 by ICP. In 2001, Carrier was the "world's largest manufacturer of air-conditioning, heating, and refrigerator equipment" with a "total employment of 42,600" and a revenue of $8.9 billion.

  5. List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical ...

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    Automatic carrier landing system: Aircraft carrier operations ACM Air cycle machine: Part of A/C air conditioning system ACMS Aircraft condition monitoring system ACP Audio Control Panel ACR Avionic Communication Router ACS 1: Airman Certification Standards [4] FAA pilot testing ACS 2: Audio control system ACU 1: Air condition unit ACU 2 ...

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    carrier An aircraft carrier. carronade A short, smoothbore, cast-iron naval cannon, used from the 1770s to the 1850s as a powerful, short-range, anti-ship and anti-crew weapon. carry away To suddenly break a spar, rope or other part of a ship's equipment. May be caused, for example, by overloading, stress of weather, collision or battle damage.

  7. Programmable thermostat - Wikipedia

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    Honeywell electronic thermostat in a store. Heating and cooling losses from a building (or any other container) become greater as the difference in temperature increases. A programmable thermostat allows reduction of these losses by allowing the temperature difference to be reduced at times when the reduced amount of heating or cooling would not be objectionable.

  8. Alstom Metropolis 98B - Wikipedia

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    Alstom Metropolis 98B is an electric multiple unit produced by the French conglomerate Alstom and operated by the Warsaw Metro as their third-generation of rolling stock. . Between 2000 and 2002, and again between 2004 and 2005, a total of 108 carriages were constructed at the manufacturer’s plants in Barcelona and Chorzów, forming 18 six-car

  9. Newark, New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    Most Panel installations across the country were replaced by modern systems during the 1970s and the last Panel switch was decommissioned in the BIgelow central office in Newark in 1983. [ 267 ] While Newark, like all of New Jersey, had area code 201 assigned for long-distance calling since 1947, the rate center was reassigned to area code 973 ...