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Quonset hut. A Quonset hut / ˈkwɒnsɪt / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I. Hundreds of thousands were produced during World War II, and military surplus ...
A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the Sun. Payloads are usually solar panels, parabolic troughs, Fresnel reflectors, lenses, or the mirrors of a heliostat. For flat-panel photovoltaic systems, trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic panel, sometimes known as ...
Eldridge Industries LLC. NPC International was one of the largest restaurant franchisees and was one of the largest restaurant operators of any kind in the United States. [1] NPC was the largest franchisee of both Pizza Hut and Wendy's, and owned more than 1,200 Pizza Hut locations and 385 Wendy's locations until March 2021. [2]
Kathe Tanner. July 28, 2022 at 3:19 PM. An unusual building just hit the real estate market in Morro Bay: a World War II-era Quonset hut. Listed by Jay Chiasson of Navigators Real Estate, the ...
Bayesian was a flybridge sloop designed by Ron Holland [2] and built by Perini Navi with a 56 m (184 ft) long aluminium hull and superstructure and a single-masted cutter rig. One of the world's largest sailing yachts, it was one of a number of similar vessels from this designer and shipyard, though the only one of their ten 56-metre series ...
Beach huts by the Baltic Sea in Höllviken, Sweden. A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin, beach box or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. They are generally used as a shelter from the sun or wind, changing into and out of swimming attire and for the ...
Infrared homing is a passive weapon guidance system which uses the infrared (IR) light emission from a target to track and follow it seamlessly. [1] Missiles which use infrared seeking are often referred to as "heat-seekers" since infrared is radiated strongly by hot bodies. Many objects such as people, vehicle engines and aircraft generate and ...
The Abbot Pass hut was an alpine hut located at an altitude of 2,925 metres (9,596 ft) in Abbot Pass in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.It was nestled between Mount Victoria and Mount Lefroy, straddling the Great Divide, [1] which, in this region, defines the boundary between Banff National Park in Alberta and Yoho National Park in British Columbia.