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Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A. [1] since 1959. The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona, with others manufactured in Chennai and Shanghai. [2] Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories.
A metal enclosure with air holes, designed to allow mixing of fuel and air while making the lighter less sensitive to wind, usually surrounds the flame. The gas jet in butane lighters mixes air and gas by using Bernoulli's principle, requiring air holes in that are much smaller and further from the flame. [citation needed]
The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) from 1991 to 1993.
You can make up to four 8-oz. cups before needing to refill the water reservoir, and at less than 5 inches wide, this multitasker will take up just a little bit of real estate on your kitchen counter.
Alberta Clipper (also known as Enbridge's Line 67) is an oil pipeline in North America. It is owned and operated by Enbridge and is part of the extensive Enbridge Pipeline System . The pipeline runs from Hardisty, Alberta , in Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin , in the United States, integrating the company's Canadian oil sands pipeline system ...
The BIC lighter was first mentioned in a 1972 Time magazine article reporting that BIC was developing a lighter that could be lit up to 3,000 times before wearing out. [5] ...
The Universal Atomic 4 is a four-cylinder, gasoline engine produced by the Universal Motor Company between 1949 [1] and 1984 for use as auxiliary power on sailboats. [2] Both 18 horsepower (13 kW) and 30 horsepower (22 kW) versions of the engine were produced. [ 3 ]
George D. Roper became the sole owner of the Van Wie Gas Stove company after the company's debts were paid off on September 1, 1894.10 days later, a fire destroyed the facility. The factory was rebuilt and renamed as the Eclipse Gas Stove Company, and later expanded to include the Trahern Pump Company, found in 1857 and acquired in 1906. [3]