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  2. Harsimus Stem Embankment - Wikipedia

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    Atop embankment at eastern end Retaining wall Stone support pier of viaduct which carried the line westward to what is now Journal Square. The Harsimus Stem Embankment, also called Sixth Street Embankment, is a half-mile-long historic railroad embankment, disused and largely overgrown with foliage, in the heart of the historic downtown of Jersey City, New Jersey in the United States.

  3. Harsimus - Wikipedia

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    Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christopher Columbus Drive on the south between Coles Street and Grove Street [3] or more broadly, to Marin Boulevard.

  4. Embankment (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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    An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...

  5. Passaic and Harsimus Line - Wikipedia

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    The P&H Line, before passing to Conrail, was the Pennsylvania Railroad's P&H Line. Before that, it was the Waverly and Passaic Branch south of the bridge over PATH, the PRR's main line from there to the River Line, and the Harsimus Branch where track no longer exists, east along the Harsimus Stem Embankment to Harsimus Cove.

  6. Lab notebook - Wikipedia

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    Lab notebook with the complete record of the experiments underlying a published paper. [1] Chemistry stencils that used to be used for drawing equipment in lab notebooks. A laboratory notebook ( colloq. lab notebook or lab book ) is a primary record of research .

  7. Hudson–Bergen Light Rail - Wikipedia

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    Hudson County, New Jersey, is the sixth-most densely populated county in the U.S. [7] and has one of America's highest percentages of public transportation use. [8] [9] During the 1980s and early 1990s, planners and government officials realized that alternative transportation systems needed to be put in place to relieve increasing congestion [10] along the Hudson Waterfront, particularly in ...

  8. Optimal experimental design - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Elfving developed the optimal design of experiments, and so minimized surveyors' need for theodolite measurements (pictured), while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland. [ 1 ] In the design of experiments , optimal experimental designs (or optimum designs [ 2 ] ) are a class of experimental designs that are optimal with respect ...

  9. Pierre Duhem - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (French: [pjɛʁ mɔʁis maʁi dy.ɛm, moʁ-] ⓘ; 9 June [1] 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity.