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A Conforama store in Wallisellen, Switzerland in April 2012 In March 2016, Darty announced it had agreed to be purchased by Steinhoff for £673 million, through Conforama subsidiary. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Fnac returned with a higher offer, resulting in a bidding war between Fnac and Conforama during April 2016. [ 7 ]
Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. [3] Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland.
Schlieren (/ ˈ ʃ l ɪər ən / SHLEER-ən; German: [ˈʃliːʁn̩] ⓘ, German for 'streaks') are optical inhomogeneities in transparent media that are not necessarily visible to the human eye. Schlieren physics developed out of the need to produce high-quality lenses devoid of such inhomogeneities.
Just one year later, the company moved its base back to Schlieren, and in 1901, there was another renaming, to Schweizerische Wagons-Fabrik AG in Schlieren-Zürich (SWS). In 1903, the newly formed Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) ordered passenger cars from SWS. As early as 1906, the 1,000th item of rolling stock left the SWS workshop, and ...
Schlieren railway station (German: Bahnhof Schlieren) is a railway station in Switzerland, situated in the municipality of Schlieren. The station is located on the Zürich–Baden railway line and is a stop of the Zurich S-Bahn served by lines S11 and S12 .
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The term "schlieren imaging" is commonly used as a synonym for schlieren photography, though this article particularly treats visualization of the pressure field produced by ultrasonic transducers, generally in water or tissue-mimicking media. The method provides a two-dimensional (2D) projection image of the acoustic beam in real-time ("live ...
Schlieren photography is a process for photographing fluid flow. Invented by the German physicist August Toepler in 1864 to study supersonic motion, ...