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Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster, a now-commonly-used trash receptacle that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks. During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region. [ 2 ]
In 1937, George Dempster invented the Dempster-Dumpster system in which wheeled waste containers were mechanically tipped into the truck. His containers were known as Dumpsters, which led to the word dumpster entering the language. In 1938, the Garwood Load Packer revolutionized the industry when including a compactor in the truck was ...
The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936, [5] came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. [6] [7] The containers were called Dumpsters, a blending of the company's name with the word dump. The Dempster ...
But living in a dumpster? That gives recycling and repurposing a whole new meaning. The home has a functional toilet and an outdoor shower that use a six-gallon tank of stored water.
A side-load bin tipper was fitted to a garbage truck as early as 1929, by the Heil company in America. [6] In the 1950s the Dempster Dumpmaster popularized the front-end loader variant, with bins being tipped over the cab of the truck. [7] Both types of integrated bin tipper are now common on municipal refuse collection trucks.
'Eleanor and I got into the dumpster. The music was blasting. She was dancing, and I was lip-syncing. Everyone was laughing and cheering us on'
Google's other music streaming service Play Music was merged with YouTube Music in May 2020, as the latter is a more recognized brand. [166] Support for the dedicated YouTube application on the Sony PlayStation Vita game console was deprecated in January 2015, for the Nintendo Wii and Wii Mini in June 2017, and for the Nintendo 3DS in August 2019.
Is a skip a type of dumpster in America? To me a dumpster looks like a frontlift bin and a skip bin is just called a rubbish skip. Live too much 01:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC) I am from New York City and we almost universally refer to all large metal commercial waste containers as dumpsters or simply containers.