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  2. Fallingwater - Wikipedia

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    Fallingwater is situated in Stewart Township in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, United States, [4] [5] about 72 miles (116 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. [6] [7] The house is located near Pennsylvania Route 381 (PA 381), [8] [9] between the communities of Ohiopyle and Mill Run in Fayette County.

  3. Trompe - Wikipedia

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    The energy of the falling water creates a partial vacuum inside the pipe that is compensated by the air from the outside atmosphere provided through inlet. The air is compressed by surrounding water pressure (which increases under a column due to the discharge to atmospheric pressure).

  4. Drop (liquid) - Wikipedia

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    Water drops on a leaf A water drop falling from a tap. A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces.A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop.

  5. Splash (fluid mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Slow motion video of a fruit falling into water. In fluid mechanics, a splash is a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water).The disturbance is typically caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface, although splashes can occur in which moving liquid supplies the energy.

  6. Falling Water (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Falling Water, also known as Aquamobile, is an outdoor 1972 sculpture and fountain by Lin Emery, installed outside the Bank of Oklahoma building (201 Robert S. Kerr Avenue) in Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

  7. Kelvin water dropper - Wikipedia

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    The Kelvin water dropper, invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, [1] is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to the device as his water-dropping condenser. The apparatus is variously called the Kelvin hydroelectric generator, the Kelvin electrostatic generator, or Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm.

  8. Inside the grueling effort to recover the bodies of all 67 ...

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    A US Coast Guard boat equipped with a crane was used Friday to hold the door of the US Army Black Hawk helicopter, allowing for the retrieval of the bodies of all three service members, followed ...

  9. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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    Cold shock response is a series of neurogenic cardio-respiratory responses caused by sudden immersion in cold water.. In cold water immersions, such as by falling through thin ice, cold shock response is perhaps the most common cause of death. [1]