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2. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Compartment (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Compartment (ship) A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads. It is analogous to a room within a building, and may provide watertight subdivision of the ship's hull important in retaining buoyancy if the hull is damaged. Subdivision of a ship's hull into watertight ...

4. Passenger railroad car - Wikipedia

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   A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) [1] is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a ...

5. Sinking of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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   Each compartment was separated from its neighbour by a bulkhead running the width of the ship; there were fifteen bulkheads in all. Each bulkhead extended at least to the underside of E Deck, nominally one deck, or about 11 feet (3.4 m), above the waterline. The two nearest the bow and the six nearest the stern went one deck further up. [62]

6. Apollo command and service module - Wikipedia

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   The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother ship, which carried a crew of three astronauts and the second Apollo spacecraft, the Apollo Lunar Module ...

7. If You See a Small Sink in a Hallway, This Is What It’s For

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   The sink was used to rinse out mops and rags, along with dumping dirty mop water and filling a bucket with fresh water. This made work easier for a housekeeper and kept dirt out of the kitchen or ...