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21List of components of oil drilling rigs — This article lists the main components of a petroleum onshore drilling rig. Offshore drilling rigs have similar elements, but are configured with a number of different drilling systems to suit drilling in the marine environment. The equipment… …
22Newcomen steam engine — Animation of a schematic Newcomen steam engine. – Steam is shown pink and water is blue. – Valves move from open (green) to closed (red) The atmospheric engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, today referred to as a Newcomen steam engine (or… …
23List of oil field acronyms — Contents 1 # 2 A 3 B 4 C …
24National Register of Historic Places listings in Washtenaw County, Michigan — List of Registered Historic Places in Washtenaw County, Michigan. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 10, 2011.[1] [2] Landmark name …
25Liguanea — is a historically significant area in the island of Jamaica in the West Indies. Its name came from the language of the pre Columbian Taino people who inhabited the island and named it after the iguana lizard that is endemic to the island, and an… …
26Standpipe — Stand pipe ( p[imac]p ), n. 1. (Engin.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it… …
27Eckington, Washington, D.C. — Eckington is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. located south of the Prospect Hill and Glenwood Cemeteries. Eckington is less than one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Howard University and exactly one mile north of the United States Capitol …
28Compton Hill Reservoir Park — Compton Hill Water Tower, one of only seven surviving standpipe water towers in the United States, is a national historic landmark. Type Municipal Location …
29National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio — This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio,… …
30George Jennings — (10 November 1810 ndash;17 April 1882) was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public toilets. Josiah George Jennings was born on 10 November 1810 in Eling, at the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire. He was the eldest …
