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    industry, reciprocating bellows are usually replaced with motorized blowers. Double-acting piston bellows are a type of bellows used by blacksmiths and...
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    waterfall) or by a manual pump. Consequently, the water organ lacks a bellows, blower, or compressor. The hydraulic organ is often confused with the hydraulis...
    20 KB (2,524 words) - 11:56, 19 February 2024
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    to be more easily moved. The lower part then usually contains the bellows, blower and/or treadle, and perhaps a few of the largest pipes. Wheels, casters...
    7 KB (866 words) - 22:22, 9 December 2023
  • architect Tom Blower (1914–1955), British swimmer The surname "Blower" (sometimes "Blowers" or "Blow") referred to a worker who operated bellows, normally...
    666 bytes (123 words) - 21:44, 21 November 2023
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    the United States and conceived the idea of a suction bellows, instead of the ordinary bellows that forced the air outward through the reeds. Beginning...
    55 KB (5,738 words) - 06:58, 30 May 2024
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    was assembled, the first organist was Charles A. Greenidge and the bellows blower, Reynold W. Gillman. Over time this organ was replaced, with various...
    7 KB (819 words) - 01:44, 29 December 2022
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    full length, the size of life, representing me at the smithery, with a bellows-blower, hammers and all the et-ceteras of the shop around me. I wish you to...
    28 KB (3,529 words) - 02:07, 1 March 2024
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    Glassblowing (redirect from Glass blower)
    a family of glass-blowers in 18th century France, and she wrote about her forebears in the 1963 historical novel The Glass-Blowers. The subject of mystery...
    32 KB (4,093 words) - 16:42, 14 April 2024
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    The phrase appears in the 1911 Dictionary of French and English by John Bellows. It appears under the entry for the French word poseur meaning to pose...
    9 KB (885 words) - 01:32, 15 May 2024
  • obscurely with a blacksmith in France, whom he served some years as a bellows-blower and under-servant, till he was acquainted with the death of his father...
    14 KB (1,979 words) - 12:30, 25 December 2023
  • Sizing of the ductwork Calculation of resistance Finalizing the capacity of blower, etc. The goal is to keep contaminants out using minimum airflow. It is...
    3 KB (339 words) - 19:00, 15 February 2024
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    carpet sweeper via manual vacuum cleaners. The first manual models, using bellows, were developed in the 1860s, and the first motorized designs appeared...
    46 KB (5,773 words) - 23:07, 22 May 2024
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    forge: Tuyere—a pipe through which air can be forced into the fire Bellows or blower—a means for forcing air into the tuyere Hearth—a place where the burning...
    16 KB (2,362 words) - 04:45, 4 February 2024
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    boats must run a blower for several minutes prior to starting the engine, and when idling or moving below cruise speed. The blower exchanges the air...
    6 KB (856 words) - 02:20, 25 April 2024
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    seal) is a type of seal used in rotating equipment, such as pumps, mixers, blowers, and compressors. When a pump operates, the liquid could leak out of the...
    22 KB (3,178 words) - 14:33, 2 April 2024
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    displaced water in an airtight container. By the 6th or 7th century AD, bellows were used to supply Byzantine organs with wind. A pipe organ with "great...
    83 KB (10,024 words) - 06:57, 29 May 2024
  • Sordino - 0.1 Burney Souffleur - 1 line Burney. French term for the bellows blower of an organ. Sound Sound in Music 5.8 Burney? or Farey sr? Cross-referenced...
    125 KB (920 words) - 02:46, 14 January 2023
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    blowpipes have been powered by mechanisms, initially bladders and bellows, but now blowers, compressors and compressed gas cylinders are commonplace. While...
    7 KB (1,016 words) - 02:16, 26 February 2024
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    Unlike a pipe organ with a blower, the wind pressure of the reed organ can be directly controlled by varying the speed the bellows are operated with the feet...
    15 KB (1,986 words) - 08:12, 26 September 2023
  • different variations. The most common examples are known to collectors as a "blowers" or "German buglers". These examples use a modified cuckoo type movement...
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