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  2. Q2B - Wikipedia

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    This Q2B or "Q-siren" is mounted on a Pierce Platform Aerial Fire Truck owned by the City of Bellingham, WA. The Q2B siren ("Q-siren") [1] is an electromechanical siren that is produced by the Federal Signal Corporation and is most recognizable for its sound, which is trademarked, and the look of the siren.

  3. Thunderbolt (siren) - Wikipedia

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    A Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1003 siren. The Thunderbolt is a mechanical outdoor warning siren that was manufactured by Federal Signal Corporation from 1951 until its production ended in 1991. [1] It is a unidirectional, rotating siren with a large square-shaped horn, and can come in various colors, usually yellow, by request.

  4. Siren (alarm) - Wikipedia

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    In a pneumatic siren, the stator is the part which cuts off and reopens air as rotating blades of a chopper move past the port holes of the stator, generating sound. The pitch of the siren's sound is a function of the speed of the rotor and the number of holes in the stator. A siren with only one row of ports is called a single tone siren.

  5. Rumbler siren - Wikipedia

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    Rumbler siren. A Rumbler siren is a type of emergency vehicle siren used primarily in the United States.Developed in 2007 by Federal Signal Corporation, and sounding at a low-frequency level, it is designed to be heard by motorists who may otherwise be unable to hear high-frequency sirens due to ambient noise, such as urban traffic.

  6. Breaching round - Wikipedia

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    A US Marine practices shotgun door-breaching techniques. A breaching round or slug-shot is a shotgun shell specially made for door breaching.It is typically fired at a range of 6 inches (15 cm) or less, aimed at the hinges or the area between the doorknob and lock and doorjamb, and is designed to destroy the object it hits and then disperse into a relatively harmless powder.

  7. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    Sound sample ⓘ A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to warn city dwellers of air raids (air-raid sirens) during World War II, they were later used to warn of nuclear attack and natural disasters, such as tornadoes (tornado sirens).

  8. ACA Hurricane - Wikipedia

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    The Hurricane 130 was a supercharged electro-mechanical siren utilizing an air compressor to produce a high output similar to the Thunderbolt siren. It was available in dual tone 8/10, 10/12, 8/12 port, or single tone 8, 10, or 12 port configurations, most models however came equipped with an 8/10 chopper port ratio (similar to a Major Third ) .

  9. Steam whistle - Wikipedia

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    This whistle type could be made to sound like a siren or to play a melody. Often called a fire alarm whistle, wildcat whistle, or mocking bird whistle. Toroidal or Levavasseur whistle – a whistle with a torus-shaped (doughnut-shaped) resonant cavity paralleling the annular gas orifice, named after Robert Levavasseur, [ 23 ] its inventor.