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unusual facts about hydraulics



ARGO-HYTOS

The product portfolio was expanded to hydraulic filters for the mobile and industrial hydraulics, which were produced in a former cigar factory in Kraichtal/Germany.

Casa Vives

All floors are of wooden planks made out of tabloncillo (sideroxylon portoricense), with the exception of the gallery's floor, which consist of hydraulic cement tiles, result of an early twentieth century intervention.

Distillation Design

Packing design and packing efficiency: packing types, packing hydraulics and capacities, determination of packing efficiency by transfer unit method and by HETP method, packed column sizing

École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble

In 2008, the school merged with the École nationale supérieure d'hydraulique et de mécanique de Grenoble (ENSHM, Superior National School of Hydraulics and Mechanics of Grenoble) to become a new school : the École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement (ENSE³, Superior National School of Energy, Water and Environment).

Fredrik Magnus Piper

He studied mathematics and hydraulics at Uppsala University between 1764 and 1766, after which he went on to specialise in engineering in a special school in Trollhättan and at the naval base in Karlskrona.

Giovanni Antonio Antolini

He continued to author works on both hydraulics and architecture including proposals for straightening the River Topino in Umbria and designs for a bridge over the Tiber at Città di Castello.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Hydraulic machinery

Harry Franklin Vickers was called the "Father of Industrial Hydraulics" by ASME.

Ikarus Orkan

French manufacturer Messier produced, to the Yugoslavian specification, the complete hydraulics equipment and landing gear.

Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8

As the crew attempted to extend the gear for landing, they encountered difficulties, since hydraulic power to the landing gear in that aircraft was normally supplied by the two right side engines, now shut down.

Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger

Altogether Jean-Baptiste Bélanger's (1828,1841) contributions to modern open channel hydraulics were remarkable and influenced the works by Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Henry Darcy, Henry Émile Bazin, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, as well as Philipp Forchheimer and Boris Bakhmeteff.

Lewis Ferry Moody

He was the first Professor of Hydraulics in the School of Engineering at Princeton.

Liz Cohen

Cohen is most notable for her Bodywork project to transform an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino using gears and hydraulics.

Manning formula

Chanson, H. (2004), The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 2nd edition, 630 pages (ISBN 978 0 7506 5978 9)

Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport

On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.

Romney Duffey

Duffey is an ASME Fellow, former Chair of ASME Nuclear Engineering Division, former Chair of American Nuclear Society Thermal-Hydraulics Division, the Chief Scientist of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, member of New York Academy of Sciences, member of American, Canadian and British Nuclear Associations.

Steelfab

The 800 diggers used the tractor hydraulics to power the digger although a pump system powered by the tractor PTO was offered as an option.

William F. Cassidy

He graduated in 1931, after which he attended the University of Iowa, where he received a MS degree in Mechanics and Hydraulics.


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