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Samuel Cleland Davidson with a huge centrifugal fan he designed and manufactured, probably for ventillating a mine shaft. The Sirocco Works on the River Lagan, Belfast, during demolition in 2009. In 1864 Davidson left his job to work for his father, James Davidson who owned a flour mill close to the site of the later Sirocco works.
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
A centrifugal fan is a mechanical device for moving air or other gases in a direction at an angle to the incoming fluid. Centrifugal fans often contain a ducted housing to direct outgoing air in a specific direction or across a heat sink; such a fan is also called a blower, blower fan, or squirrel-cage fan (because it looks like a hamster wheel).
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by ...
Sirocco (parrot), a famous kakapo; Sirocco (restaurant), a 63rd floor rooftop restaurant atop the State Tower in Bangkok, Thailand; Shirocco, a German thoroughbred racehorse; Sirocco, codename for the S1 Core, an open source hardware microprocessor design; Sirocco, a model of the Nokia 8800 mobile phone and revived more recently for the Nokia 8 ...
The original Sirocco was the first ultralight aircraft flown around the world, completing the flight in the 1980s. [1] Reviewer Marino Boric wrote about the nG design in a 2015 review, saying, "the cockpit offers good crash safety. Very low stall speed, short take-off and landing and efficient controls all contribute to the Sirocco's appeal." [1]
The sirocco does not affect other parts of Europe. The sirocco's duration may be as short as half a day or may last several days. While passing over the Mediterranean Sea, the sirocco picks up moisture; this results in rainfall in the southern part of Italy, known locally as "blood rain" due to the red sand mixed with the falling rain.
The New York Islanders of the National Hockey League, who began play in 1972–73, had originally been widely expected to adopt the Long Island Ducks name. The name was later taken by the Long Island Ducks , an independent baseball team in Central Islip , which began play in 2000.