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  2. Windscreen wiper - Wikipedia

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    A "locomotive-cab-window cleaner" on 12 March 1903 [7] Apjohn's 1903 window cleaning apparatus design. Irish born inventor James Henry Apjohn (1845–1914) patented an "Apparatus for Cleaning Carriage, Motor Car and other Windows" which was stated to use either brushes or wipers and could be either motor driven or hand driven.

  3. Windshield washer fluid - Wikipedia

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    Windshield washer fluid being poured into a vehicle's storage tank, or reservoir. Windshield washer fluid (also called windshield wiper fluid, wiper fluid, screen wash (in the UK), or washer fluid) is a fluid for motor vehicles that is used in cleaning the windshield with the windshield wiper while the vehicle is being driven.

  4. Memphis tanker truck disaster - Wikipedia

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    [14] [15] The tank was then propelled from the highway by the remaining rapidly escaping and combusting gas inside of the tank, causing it to strike a nearby overpass bridge before exiting the freeway right-of-way, bouncing off the ground, striking the top of a tree, and crashing into a duplex about 125 yards (114 m) away from the crash site.

  5. Leak detection - Wikipedia

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    A leak appearing within an analytic region (a rule added to the camera) is immediately analyzed for its attributes, including thermal temperature, size, and behaviour (e.g. spraying, pooling, spilling). When a leak is determined to be valid based on set parameters, an alarm notification with leak video is generated and sent to a monitoring station.

  6. Windshield - Wikipedia

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    Singled aero screen on Bentley Blower No.1. The term windshield is used generally throughout the US and Canada. The term windscreen is the usual term in the British Isles and Australasia for all vehicles. In the US windscreen refers to the mesh or foam placed over a microphone to minimize wind noise, while a windshield refers to the front ...

  7. Gas leak - Wikipedia

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    Gas leaks can damage or kill plants. [4] [5] In addition to leaks from natural gas pipes, methane and other gases migrating from landfill garbage disposal sites can also cause chlorosis and necrosis in grass, weeds, or trees. [6] In some cases, leaking gas may migrate as far as 100 feet (30 m) from the source of the leak to an affected tree. [7]

  8. Clear view screen - Wikipedia

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    Two clear view screens on the navigation bridge of a tugboat A clear view screen or clearview screen is a glass disk mounted in a window that rotates to disperse rain, spray, and snow. A clear view screen is typically driven by an electric motor at the center of the disk, and is often heated to prevent condensation or icing.

  9. Windshield obstruction laws - Wikipedia

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    New Jersey prohibits windshield obstructions under 39:3-74 : "No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign, poster, sticker or other non-transparent material upon the front windshield, wings, deflectors, side shields, corner lights adjoining windshield or front side windows of such vehicle other than a certificate or other article required to be so displayed by statute or by ...