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Tubing, also known as inner tubing, bumper tubing, towed tubing, biscuiting (in New Zealand), or kite tubing, is a recreational activity where an individual rides on top of an inner tube, either on water, snow, or through the air. The tubes themselves are also known as "donuts" or "biscuits" due to their shape.
Inner tubing may mean: Inner tube, the rubber tube within certain tires; Tubing (recreation), the act of riding an inner tube This page was last edited on 11 ...
Leavenworth and Olathe Railroad: MP: 1886 1887 Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railroad: Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad: UP: 1855 1863 Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division: Leavenworth and Platte County Bridge Company: CGW: 1888 1892 Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge Company: Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge ...
The company began operating January 16, 1900 as the Kansas City-Leavenworth Railway. [1] Starting from Leavenworth (then the 4th largest city in Kansas), it ran southeast through Lansing. [2] It also passed through the Wolcott community, renamed from Connor or Connor City in honor of H.W. (Herbert) Wolcott, an official of the railway.
The company began construction on its main line westward from Kansas City in September 1863. In 1864, the first 40 miles (64 km) of the line to Lawrence was in operation. In the fall of 1866, the line had reached Junction City , which became the end of the first division of the railroad and where a roundhouse was constructed.
The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., also known as Missouri Valley Bridge Company, was an engineering, construction, and steel fabrication firm that operated through the late nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries. It was based in Leavenworth, Kansas, with a WWII facility in Evansville, Indiana.
Soft (or ductile) copper tubing can be bent easily to travel around obstacles in the path of the tubing. While the work hardening of the drawing process used to size the tubing makes the copper hard or rigid, it is carefully annealed to make it soft again; it is, therefore, more expensive to produce than non-annealed, rigid copper tubing.
By the early 1880s, the company was manufacturing about 18,000 tons of wrought iron pipes annually from 20,000 tons of skelp iron. [2] In 1880, Potts Brothers Iron Company Ltd., which owned a rolling mill in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, acquired a controlling interest in the Chester Pipe and Tube Company. Colonel Joseph D. Potts, a prominent figure ...