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  2. Crash bar - Wikipedia

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    A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.

  3. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    A device made of rigid, heavy gauge wire and designed to fit through the space between double-swinging equipped with panic hardware. [9] Jet-Axe A Jet-Axe was a shaped charge of two to six ounces of RDX, and was used for forcible entry [10] and ventilation in the 1960s and 1970s. Jet siphon

  4. Yale (company) - Wikipedia

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    Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co, 1897. In 1868, the business was established in Stamford, Connecticut, by Henry R. Towne and Linus Yale Sr., an inventor renowned for creating the pin tumbler lock. Initially known as Yale Lock Manufacturing Co., the company later adopted the name Yale & Towne, with its base in Newport, New York. [3]

  5. Carl Prinzler - Wikipedia

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    Carl Jacob Prinzler (June 6, 1870 – May 30, 1949) was an American engineer who invented the "panic bar" device for doors that allowed them to be opened from the inside despite being locked on the outside.

  6. Emergency exit - Wikipedia

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    Emergency exit in Universitetet metro station in Stockholm. An emergency exit in a building or other structure is a special exit used during emergencies such as fires.The combined use of regular and emergency exits allows for faster evacuation, and emergency exits provide alternative means of evacuation if regular exits are inaccessible.

  7. Impact attenuator - Wikipedia

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    A crash cushion installed on a motorway exit in Italy. An impact attenuator, also known as a crash cushion, crash attenuator, or cowboy cushion, is a device intended to reduce the damage to structures, vehicles, and motorists resulting from a motor vehicle collision. Impact attenuators are designed to absorb the colliding vehicle's kinetic energy.