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  2. Jesse W. Reno - Wikipedia

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    Jesse Wilford Reno (August 4, 1861 – June 2, 1947) was an American inventor and engineer. He invented the first working escalator in 1891 (patented March 15, 1892) used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." An earlier escalator machine, termed "revolving stairs" by its ...

  3. Escalator - Wikipedia

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    Escalator. For the album by Sam Gopal, see Escalator (album). An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor -driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizontal.

  4. Series acceleration - Wikipedia

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    Series acceleration. In mathematics, series acceleration is one of a collection of sequence transformations for improving the rate of convergence of a series. Techniques for series acceleration are often applied in numerical analysis, where they are used to improve the speed of numerical integration. Series acceleration techniques may also be ...

  5. Moving walkway - Wikipedia

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    Moving walkway inside the Changi Airport station of the Singapore MRT. A moving walkway, also known as an autowalk, [1] moving pavement, [2] moving sidewalk, [3] people-mover, travolator, [4] or travelator (British English), [5] is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people across a horizontal or inclined plane over a short to medium distance. [6]

  6. Orenstein & Koppel - Wikipedia

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    Orenstein & Koppel (normally abbreviated to " O&K ") was a major German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876, in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel. Originally a general engineering company, O&K soon started to specialise in the manufacture of railway ...

  7. Rate of convergence - Wikipedia

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    Convergence rate definitions. Suppose that the sequence converges to the number . The sequence is said to converge with order to , and with a rate of convergence , if. for some positive constant if and if . [2][4][5] It is not necessary that be an integer. For example, the secant method, when converging to a regular, simple root, has an order ...

  8. Convergent series - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a series is the sum of the terms of an infinite sequence of numbers. More precisely, an infinite sequence defines a series S that is denoted. The n th partial sum Sn is the sum of the first n terms of the sequence; that is, A series is convergent (or converges) if and only if the sequence of its partial sums tends to a limit ...

  9. Uniform convergence - Wikipedia

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    Uniform convergence. A sequence of functions converges uniformly to when for arbitrary small there is an index such that the graph of is in the -tube around f whenever. The limit of a sequence of continuous functions does not have to be continuous: the sequence of functions (marked in green and blue) converges pointwise over the entire domain ...