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On September 11, 1883, James Goold Cutler received U.S. patent 284,951, for a system connecting deposit boxes on multiple floors to a single ground-floor receptacle; the chute had to have a front of at least three-fourths glass to allow for the identification of mail clogs, and, if installed at a height of greater than two stories, an elastic cushion was to be fitted in the receptacle to ...
A demonstration of a fire escape chute on the streets of Daegu, South Korea. An escape chute is a special kind of emergency exit, used where conventional fire escape stairways are impractical. The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tall structure.
During Antiquity, the stepped-chute design was used for dam spillways, storm waterways, and in town water supply channels. Most of these early structures were built around the Mediterranean Sea , and the expertise on stepped spillway design was spread successively by the Romans, Muslims, and Spaniards.
The Singular Objects of Architecture is a book written by French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard.It consists of the two conversations that he had with French architect, Jean Nouvel in 1997 at Maison des Ecrivains and the University of Paris VI-La Villette School of Architecture.
There are four main components of a chute spillway: [1] The elements of a spillway are the inlet, the vertical curve section (ogee curve), the steep-sloped channel and the outlet. In order to avoid a hydraulic jump , the slope of the spillway must be steep enough for the flow to remain supercritical.
Chutes and ladders; Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute; Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse; Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal; Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
When the underlying engineering equations of a mechanism or machine are evaluated at the singular configuration (if any exists), then those equations exhibit mathematical singularity. Examples of mechanical singularities are gimbal lock and in static mechanical analysis, an under-constrained system.
Referring can take place in a number of ways. Typically, in the case of (1), the RE is likely to succeed in picking out the referent because the words in the expression and the way they are combined give a true, accurate, description of the referent, in such a way that the hearer of the expression can recognize the speaker's intention.