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A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or machine that cleans streets. People have worked in cities as "sanitation workers" since sanitation and waste removal became a priority. A street-sweeping person would use a broom and shovel to clean off litter, animal waste and filth that accumulated on streets. Later, water hoses were used to ...
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Cobray/SWD Street Sweeper—A lower-end clone of the Armsel Striker, having a limited parts commonality to the original weapons system. [5] Cobray/SWD Ladies Home Companion/ LHC [10] —A reduced caliber version of the Streetsweeper. The trigger group is attached to a .410 bore or .45/70 Government cylinder and barrel. [11]
A few months later, on May 12, 1896, he patented a dust-proof collection bag for the street sweeper (US Patent #560,154). [ 4 ] Although little information is available about his life, we do know that funding for the production for his sweeper was provided by George M. Hallstead and Plummer S. Page. [ 5 ] The production took place in Scranton ...
Street sweeper (shotgun) a variant of the Armsel Striker, a type of shotgun based on revolver principles; Streetsweepers Entertainment, label specialized in releasing street mixtapes; The Streetsweeper, Vol. 1, 2003 album by DJ Kay Slay Its title track, "The Streetsweeper" The Streetsweeper, Vol. 2, 2004 album by DJ Kay Slay
The first mechanical sweeper was invented by George Smart in 1803 but was resisted in the UK and the US. Joseph Glass marketed an improved sweeping machine in 1828; he is credited with being the inventor of the modern chimney sweep's brush. [6] In the northern US, whites gave up the trade and employed black sweep-boys from the South. [7]
From the beginning, the New York City alternate-side parking law was "assailed" by opponents as actually impeding the efficient flow of traffic. [4] The system was created by either Paul Rogers Screvane, while a sanitation commissioner in Queens, New York, [5] or Isidore Cohen, [6] a Sanitation Department employee who later rose to Manhattan borough superintendent.
Patent model of Daniel Hess's carpet sweeper. In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa. Called a "carpet sweeper", it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. [4] [5] Another early model (1869) was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The ...