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3 unusual facts about Piping


Filament winding

Products currently being produced using this technique range from golf clubs, pipes, oars, bicycle forks, power and transmission poles, pressure vessels to missile casings, aircraft fuselages and lamp posts and yacht masts.

Pied-piping

it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute.

Piping

EN 1993-4-3 Eurocode 3 — Design of steel structures - Part 4-3: Pipelines


Billy Pigg

The distinguishing characteristic of Pigg's playing style is the use of complex open-fingered ornaments, in imitation of Irish and Highland piping.

Blue-throated Piping Guan

At dawn it gives a "piping" call of 6 or so slow high-pitched, clear whistles, "slightly ascending in pitch, püüeee, püüeee, püüeee,…", reminiscent of the Scale-backed Antbird.

Electron beam processing

Cross-linked polyethylene piping called PEX is commonly used as an alternative to copper piping for water lines in newer home construction.

Ferrule

Compression fittings for attaching tubing (piping) commonly have ferrules in them.

Finham

The underground concrete piping, then the widest of its kind in the UK, was used for the iconic scenes where several Minis raced through the tunnels of Turin.

John Rousmaniere

His non-boating books include histories of the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and Piping Rock country club.

Long Island Golf Association

Founders including John Montgomery Ward, from Garden City Golf Club, the association's first President and a member of baseball's Hall of Fame, John N. Stearns Jr., of National Golf Links of America and Piping Rock, and Gardiner White of Nassau Country Club gave their active support for the fledgling organization.

MacDonald Brothers

Angus has practised as a doctor in Cape Breton and in Skye, and is involved with the Donald MacDonald Quaich and the John MacFadyen Memorial Piping Trust.

Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit

Due to Morgantown's snowy winter climate, the concrete pathways feature embedded piping containing a glycol solution used to melt snow and ice.

Niall Vallely

In 2008 he composed an electro-acoustic piece entitled “Rakish” based on the music of travelling piper Johnny Doran which was premiered at the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh.

Roddy MacLeod

After speaking out against the lack of piping teachers in Scottish schools, he introduced Skype lessons in 2008 for would-be pipers as a potential solution to the problem.

Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen hosts some well-known industrial companies like Georg Fischer (piping systems, machine tools and automotives), an internationally reputed manufacturer of watches (IWC), pharmaceutical industry (Cilag, founded by Bernhard Joos) and BB Biotech (biotechnologies).

Thermowell

Thermowells are typically installed in piping systems and subject to both hydrostatic and aerodynamic forces.

Thompson shell

The Thompson shell syntax for redirection with < and >, and piping with "?title=DOS">DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows.

Tom Clough

At the end of his life, 'Young Tom' recalled piping sessions at the 'Willow Tree' in Newsham, with his father Tom, grandfather Henry Clough, and Richard Mowat all playing - Henry's and Richard Mowat's playing would get more furious and inaccurate as the evening progressed; Tom was teetotal.

Unix shell

The Bourne shell, sh, was written by Stephen Bourne at AT&T as the original Unix command line interpreter; it introduced the basic features common to all the Unix shells, including piping, here documents, command substitution, variables, control structures for condition-testing and looping and filename wildcarding.

Waffenfarbe

East German (DDR) Nationale Volksarmee uniforms initially wore the waffenfarbe as worn by the Wehrmacht, i.e. as base and filling of the collar and sleeve patches and as a piping around the shoulder boards/shoulder straps.


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