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  2. Rolls-Royce WR-21 - Wikipedia

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    Design. The WR-21 is the first aeroderivative gas turbine to incorporate gas compressor intercooler and exhaust heat recovery system technologies that deliver low specific fuel consumption across the engine's operating range. [3] It offers a reduction in fuel burn of 30% across the typical ship operating profile. [5]

  3. Reverberatory furnace - Wikipedia

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    Reverberatory furnace. A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding or reflecting, not in the acoustic sense of echoing .

  4. Rheem - Wikipedia

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    Rheem may refer to: Rheem Manufacturing Company; Rheem, California (disambiguation), places in California; Rheem Creek; Rheem Classic This page was last edited on ...

  5. Alice H. Parker - Wikipedia

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    Alice H. Parker. Alice H. Parker (1895 – 1920) [1] was an African-American inventor who was active in the early 1900s. She is most widely recognized for her patent filed for a gas furnace, which served as the basis for the development of modern heating systems in use today.

  6. Gas chamber - Wikipedia

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    An unsuccessful attempt to pump poison gas directly into his cell at Nevada State Prison led to the development of the first makeshift gas chamber to carry out Jon's death sentence. [23] On December 3, 1948, Miran Thompson and Sam Shockley were executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison for their role in the Battle of Alcatraz .

  7. Lucy Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Lucy Furnace was a pair of blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River in Lawrenceville. The furnaces were part of the Carnegie Steel Company , with the first furnace erected in 1871 by brothers Andrew and Thomas M. Carnegie , Andrew Kloman and Henry Phipps Jr. [1] This furnace was the first one built new by the Carnegies ...

  8. Titanic - Wikipedia

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    They were powered by steam produced in 29 boilers, 24 of which were double-ended and five single-ended, which contained a total of 159 furnaces. The boilers were 15 feet 9 inches (4.80 m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.1 m) long, each weighing 91.5 tons and capable of holding 48.5 tons of water.

  9. International Comfort Products - Wikipedia

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    Carrier Global. Website. www.icpusa.com. International Comfort Products Corporation ( ICP) is a company that designs, manufactures and markets central air conditioning ( HVAC) systems and gas and oil furnaces for use in homes and commercial buildings. It is a unit of Carrier Global and is headquartered in Lewisburg, Tennessee, United States .