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Foot board / Run board / Running board / Tread plate Walkway around the locomotive, from the cab front, to facilitate inspection and maintenance. [5] [6]: 437 [3]: 67 Frame The strong, rigid structure that carries the boiler, cab and engine unit; supported on driving wheels (43) and leading and trailing trucks (14, 46).
Wheel-well stowaways have been widely covered in the press and media at large throughout the history of passenger airlines.One of the most notable incidents involved Keith Sapsford (14) from Sydney, Australia, who fell 200 feet (60 m) to his death from the wheel-well of a Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 on February 24, 1970, shortly after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.
Ironing a shirt. Ironing is the use of an iron, usually heated, to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases from fabric. [1] The heating is commonly done to a temperature of 180–220 °C (360–430 °F), depending on the fabric. [2] Ironing works by loosening the bonds between the long-chain polymer molecules in the fibres of the material. While ...
A stowaway somehow made it onto a Delta Air Lines flight Tuesday from New York City to Paris without a boarding pass, officials confirmed. The woman boarded Delta Flight No. 264 from John F ...
A female stowaway skulked past multiple security checkpoints at New York’s JFK International Airport and onto a Paris-bound Delta Airlines flight without a boarding pass or identification.
A stowaway on a tram in Astrakhan, Russia A shipping container in which 22 stowaways were found in the Port of Seattle. A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus. [1] Sometimes, the purpose is to get from one place to another without paying for ...
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Sarah Boone (née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor. On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [1] for her improvements to the ironing board.