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2. Wiper (occupation) - Wikipedia

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   A wiper is a position responsible for both cleaning the engine spaces and machinery of a ship and assisting the ship's engineers as directed. Railroad workers who performed similar jobs were also known as wipers, [1] or in the UK as "cleaners". The most junior rate in a ship's engine room, the wiper position is an apprenticeship to become an ...

3. Clear view screen - Wikipedia

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   Other common names for it include "clear sight", "spin window", "Kent Screen" and "rotating windshield wiper". Clear view screens were patented in 1917 by Samuel Augustine de Normanville and Leslie Harcourt Kent as a stand-alone pillar-mounted screen, [ 1 ] with later patents for telescope and optics covers, followed by the more familiar ships ...

4. Windscreen wiper - Wikipedia

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   A windscreen wiper (Commonwealth English) or windshield wiper (American English) is a device used to remove rain, snow, ice, washer fluid, water, or other debris from a vehicle's front window. Almost all motor vehicles , including cars , trucks , buses , train locomotives , and watercraft with a cabin —and some aircraft —are equipped with ...

5. Trico - Wikipedia

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   Trico is an American company that specializes in windshield wipers.Trico, then known as Tri-Continental Corporation, invented the windshield wiper blade in 1917. [2] Its original Trico Plant No. 1 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

6. Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol Unit - Wikipedia

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   From 1950–1955, the Republic of China Marine Corps Command decided to establish its first marine reconnaissance team, much like the United States Marine Corps Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, but whose training for these ROCMC would be modelled after the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Team (UDT).

7. Oldsmobile V8 engine - Wikipedia

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   Parts peculiar to this system include a toothed disc between the harmonic balancer and the crank pulley, the "adjacent sensor" (an early form of crankshaft position sensor), a special distributor, an engine temperature sensor, and a rudimentary computer mounted inside the car, under the dashboard.

8. Schoharie limousine crash - Wikipedia

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   The Excursion had also failed inspection in September 2018 due to the absence of this certificate along with mechanical problems including a perpetually lit antilock brake warning indicator light, a dangling brake line, defective emergency exits [19] and defective windshield wipers; hence, the limo was illegal to operate on public roads in the ...