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In 1967, the first Conforama was opened in Saint-Priest, Rhône in a 2,500-square-metre industrial building. In 1976, Conforama was acquired by Agache-Willot. In 1981, the financial holding company experienced serious legal difficulties, and in 1991, Conforama was acquired by Pinault SA. Conforama set up its first commercial website in 1998. [2]
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 .
Urban Transportation Development Corporation - Thunder Bay, Ontario 1973–1990s (used old CC&F plant); Hawker Siddeley Canada - Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1962–2001 (old CC&F plant)
Caumasee-Lift is a funicular at Flims, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.It provides access to Caumasee at 1003 m - with its bath and restaurant - from an upper station at 1075 m, on Via Dil Lag in Flims Waldhaus.
Tubes of 3 metres (10 ft) diameter connect the spheres along the twelve edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. The central tube contains the fastest lift in Europe of the time with a speed of 5 m/s (20 ft/s), [2] installed by the Belgian branch of the Swiss firm Schlieren (subsequently taken over by Schindler). It allows 22 ...
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.
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 ...