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In 1901, piping and heating contractor W. Frank Dowd established the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. [1] The foundry operated with 25 employees and cast iron soil pipes and fittings. [2] The company focused its efforts on iron casting for much of its early history. [1]
In the absence of snow, dug out half-pipes can be used by dirt-boarders, motorcyclists, and mountain bikers. Performance in a half-pipe has been rapidly increasing over recent years. The current limit performed by a top-level athlete for a rotational trick in a half-pipe is 1440 degrees (four full 360 degree rotations).
For winter sports, the term superpipe is used to describe a halfpipe built of snow which has walls 22 ft (6.7 m) high from the flat bottom on both sides. Other features of a superpipe are that the width of the pipe is greater than the height of the walls, and the walls extend to near vertical.
American was founded by Charlotte and James Blair. They recruited the initial investors, including John J. Eagan, who was the company's first president and later sole proprietor. [1] In 1924, Eagan died of complications from tuberculosis. Upon his death, having previously acquired all of the stock of the company, he willed ownership of the ...
Under several owners, the factory manufactured pipes through the peak of clay pipe manufacturing, around 1919, and until the business was sold at public auction in 1938. The post-1938 owners changed the focus of the company to novelty and souvenir pipes and retail sale of local home industry handmade pipes, but were unable to make a profit.
18th-century set of border pipes played by Fin Moore. The border pipes are a type of bagpipe related to the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe.It is perhaps confusable with the Scottish smallpipe, although it is a quite different and much older instrument.
The men's halfpipe competition in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 17 February (qualification) and 19 February (final), at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1] The podium consisted of all the medalists in the same event in 2018, but in a different order.
WGFY (1480 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. The station is owned by the Charlotte Advent Media Corporation and it broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format as a network affiliate of LifeTalk Radio. [2] WGFY carries hourly newscasts from the Salem Radio Network (SRN News).