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2 unusual facts about Ovens


Ovens

Ovens Auditorium, an auditorium located in Charlotte, North Carolina where concerts and other entertainment events are held

Ovens, County Cork

Agriculture remains the dominant local industry, though companies such as EMC Corporation and John A. Wood Ltd. provide much employment to both locals and those in the greater Cork area.


Bedourie oven

Drovers working on Bedourie Station, in western Queensland, found that the heavy cast iron camp ovens they used for cooking would often break as a result of falling from their pack horses.

Chenopodium album

Archaeologists analysing carbonized plant remains found in storage pits and ovens at Iron Age, Viking Age, and Roman sites in Europe have found its seeds mixed with conventional grains and even inside the stomachs of Danish bog bodies.

Heat pipe

The general principle of heat pipes using gravity, commonly classified as two phase thermosiphons, dates back to the steam age and Angier March Perkins and his son Loftus Perkins and the "Perkins Tube", which saw widespread use in locomotive boilers and working ovens.

Industrial design

Raymond Loewy was a prolific American designer who is responsible for the Royal Dutch Shell corporate logo, the original BP logo (in use until 2000), the PRR S1 steam locomotive, the Studebaker Starlight (including the later iconic bulletnose), as well as Schick electric razors, Electrolux refrigerators, short-wave radios, Le Creuset French ovens, and a complete line of modern furniture, among many other items.

Jill Ovens

Ovens was an Alliance candidate in Auckland's Mount Albert electorate in the 1999 elections and the 2002 elections, both times contesting the seat against Labour leader Helen Clark.

John Kane

Next he worked a stint in the steel industry at the National Tube Company in McKeesport, but soon left for a job in Connellsville, Pennsylvania at the coke ovens of Henry Clay Frick.

Non-neutral plasmas

More prosaically, pure electron plasmas are used to produce the microwaves in microwave ovens, via the magnetron instability.

Ottovale coke works

In 1958, one battery, equating to about half of the plant's ovens, were shut down along with ovens at Shotton Colliery and Whinfield coke works.

Ovens Auditorium

Ovens Auditorium is an auditorium located adjacent to Bojangles' Coliseum, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Pulemelei Mound

Archaeological surveys by Gregory Jackmond in 1977-1978 recorded 3000 features including stone platforms, stone fences, pathways and earth ovens.

Redstone Inn

A large part of the venture was the construction of a planned company town at Redstone, where the coke ovens were.

Schalker

Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik GmbH - German mnufacturer of mining locomotives and coking ovens.

Shlomo Miller

Rabbi Miller was one of the signatories to the ruling forbidding changing the temperature of Shabbos Mode ovens on Yom Tov, alleging that Rabbi Moshe Heinemann was the sole Haredi authority to permit it.

Tandoor

The oldest examples of a tandoor were found in the settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, though earlier tandoor-type ovens have been recovered in early-Harappan contexts on the Makran coast, including the mound site of Balakot, Pakistan.

The Manitowoc Company

In 2008, the company acquired Enodis PLC, a UK-based supplier of restaurant equipment, including fryers, ovens, and ice machines.

TrueCookPlus

In 2008, the first TrueCookPlus licensed microwave ovens were launched in a limited national test market beginning at Best Buy in August, then Sears in September.

Zanussi

The 26-year-old son of a blacksmith in Pordenone in Northeastern Italy began the business by making home stoves and wood-burning ovens.


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