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  2. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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    a blower valve, which regulates the steam supplied to the blower (11) [3]: 8 a whistle lever, which varies the steam supplied to the whistle (3) [ 3 ] : 96 blowdown (or blow-off) cocks, which allow water to be ejected from the boiler to avoid concentration of impurities remaining after evaporation of steam.

  3. List of agricultural machinery - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming.The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.

  4. Roots Blower Company - Wikipedia

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    It was founded in 1854 by the inventors Philander Higley Roots and Francis Marion Roots. It is notable for the Roots blower, a type of pump. [1] Today, Roots blowers are mainly used as air pumps in superchargers for internal combustion engines; they were first used in blast furnaces to blow combustion air to melt iron. [2]

  5. Kansas City Stockyards - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City Stockyards in 1909 Kansas City Stockyards in 1904 with the Livestock Exchange Building View of stockyards & surrounding area. The stockyards were built to provide better prices for livestock owners. [citation needed] Previously, livestock owners west of Kansas City could only sell at whatever price the railroad offered. With the ...

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    The specific geometrical design of the cap, the students explained, shifts the soundwaves that come out of the blower's long nozzle—the same way a car muffler or a silencer on a gun works.

  7. US to award $306 million for bird flu monitoring and ... - AOL

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    The country in December reported its first severe human case of bird flu in a Louisiana resident, who was hospitalized in a critical condition after suspected contact with an infected backyard flock.

  8. Woman, 26, slashed in neck and man, 42, wrist cut in NYC ...

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    A suspect is in custody after a knife attack at Grand Central 42 Street subway station in New York injured two with neck and wrist slashes.

  9. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.