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A spiral slide is a playground slide that is wrapped around a central pole to form a descending spiral forming a simple helter skelter. A wavy slide is a slide that has waves in its shape, causing the person sliding to go up and down slightly while descending. A tube slide is simply a slide in the form of a tube. It can also curve or have bumps.
A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle is a combination puzzle that challenges a player to slide (frequently flat) pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration. The pieces to be moved may consist of simple shapes, or they may be imprinted with colours, patterns, sections of a ...
Variations on the lighthouse helter skelter include Thomas Warwick's slide at Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire, England, as well as Manchester White City's Dragon Slide. [8] Rather than the traditional lighthouse tower, Thomas Warwick's slide was shaped like a castle tower with turrets at the top.
1908 Sizaire-Naudin Schematic of a later 'inverted' sliding pillar, as for the Morgan. A sliding pillar suspension is a form of independent front suspension for light cars. The stub axle and wheel assembly are attached to a vertical pillar or kingpin which slides up and down through a bush or bushes which are attached to the vehicle chassis, usually as part of transverse outrigger assemblies ...
The posts are generally placed one tatami-length (about 1.82 metres (6.0 ft)) apart, and the shoji slide in two parallel wood-groove tracks between them. [8] In modern construction, the shoji often do not form the exterior surface of the building; they sit inside a sliding glass door or window. [5]
The slide is still constructed using the original plans and method from more than 120 years ago. The process of cutting the ice blocks, laying them and grooving them typically takes most of a weekend.
The traditional sliding doors design has two-panel sections, one fixed-stationary and one mobile to slide open. The actual sliding door is a movable rectangular framed sheet of window glass that is mounted parallel to a similar and often fixed similarly framed neighboring glass partition.
The slide shifts the land so much that most utilities can’t be buried underground, so the city has installed an eyesore: an above-ground sewage line that runs along the side of the road.