In some cases, the engine may also be fitted with a turbocharger, whose output is directed into the blower inlet.

A few designs employ a hybrid turbocharger for scavenging and charging the cylinders, which device is mechanically driven at cranking and low speeds to act as a blower.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

In the pipe organ, this air is supplied by a regulated blower.

The Roots blower is one example of a vacuum pump

A whistleblower ( whistle-blower or whistle blower ) is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities ( misconduct ) occurring in a government department or private company or organization.

During this period the progress of the oxidation of the impurities is judged by the appearance of the flame issuing from the mouth of the converter: the modern use of photoelectric methods of recording the characteristics of the flame has greatly aided the blower in controlling the final quality of the product.

Most laboratory glassware is now mass-produced, but many large laboratories employ a glass blower to construct specialized pieces.

The narrative constructed jointly by the whistle blower and regulatory agency is one which depicts the whistle-blower as motivated by personal conscience and the organization by defense of the public interest.

An auger in a snow blower or grain elevator is essentially an Archimedes ' screw.

In San Francisco, there's Devine's Jug Band, which is one of the few jug bands today that actually uses a jug blower full time.

These were generally larger and more robust than Novelty and differed in several details ( for example it is thought that a different design of blower was used which was an ‘ Induced Draught ’ type, sucking the gases from the fire ).

This organ is one of the few original remaining Schuelke Organs-except for an electric blower it has been basically unaltered since installation.

Whately is said to have used the space as a larder and Newman is said to have used it for his private prayers — when the organ was installed in 1884, the space was used for the blower.

Glass blowing is an old industry in the municipality, with the first glass blower established in 1741.

The mold disk is sometimes water-cooled, and often air-cooled with a blower, to carry away the heat of the molten type metal and allow the cast slugs to solidify quickly.

However, some jurisdictions require mechanical ball draws which may utilize a randomly shuffled deck of bingo calling cards, a mechanical ball blower that mixes ping pong balls with blown air or a cage which is turned to mix small wooden balls.

The Roots type supercharger or Roots blower is a positive displacement lobe pump which operates by pumping a fluid with a pair of meshing lobes not unlike a set of stretched gears.

With a Roots-type supercharger, one method successfully employed is the addition of a thin heat exchanger placed between the blower and the engine.

Roots pumps are capable of pumping large volumes but as they only achieve moderate compression, it is not uncommon to see multiple Roots blower stages, frequently with heat exchangers ( intercoolers ) in between to cool the gas.

Boost is given in terms of pressure ratio, which is the ratio of absolute air pressure before the blower to the absolute air pressure after compression by the blower.

This costs less than having a completely separate cooling system, for your regular heating ductwork, filters and furnace blower do double duty for cooling.

* Bellows or blower — a means for forcing air into the tuyere

Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category.

Diesel engines have mostly a Roots blower or piston pump for scavenging.

Some designs use a mechanically driven Roots blower, whilst marine diesel engines normally use exhaust-driven turbochargers, with electrically-driven auxiliary blowers for low-speed operation when exhaust turbochargers are unable to deliver enough air.

If the Baal Tekiyah ( shofar sounder ) blows with the intention that all who hear will perform the mitzvah, then anyone listening — even someone passing by — who intends to hear the Shofar can perform the mitzvah because the community blower blows for everybody.

The Roots blower was manufactured in Connersville for many years.

The whistle blower was still under his confidentiality agreement and would not break it for Roth or Mann.

However, for the purpose of balance, the turtle ships are wrong in two areas of the game: they are slow ( in reality they were quite fast ) and they can only fire the cannon out of the dragon's mouth / bow ( the turtle ships actually fired broadsides and used the front mostly as a sulfur smoke blower and ram ).

If not properly managed ( through outlet piping geometry ) or accounted for ( by structural reinforcement of downstream components ), the resulting pulsations can cause fluid cavitation and / or damage to components downstream of the blower.

The term " blower " is commonly used to define a device placed on engines with a functional need for additional airflow using a direct mechanical link as its energy source.

This electricity is used to run lights, the water pump, the control portion of a refrigerator, the igniters for cooktops, smoke and gas detectors, fans, jack and slide-out motors, and often the blower and control circuits of a built-in propane furnace.

Depending on what is being controlled, a forced-air air conditioning thermostat generally has an external switch for heat / off / cool, and another on / auto to turn the blower fan on constantly or only when heating and cooling are running.

Four wires come to the centrally-located thermostat from the main heating / cooling unit ( usually located in a closet, basement, or occasionally in the attic ): One wire usually red, supplies 24 volts AC power to the thermostat, while the other three supply control signals from the thermostat, usually white for heat, yellow for cooling, and green to turn on the blower fan.

He also installed an electric blower to blow the dirt off home plate, and a mechanical box with fresh baseballs that would rise from underground.

A blower may be installed to increase comfort.

Be sure your ducts and blower are big enough to handle cooling.

The Sanskrit word ' Vāta ' literally means " blown ", ' Vāyu ' " blower ", and ' Prāna ' " breathing " ( viz.

Therefore all two-stroke engines must be fitted with a blower to charge the cylinders with air and assist in dispersing exhaust gases, a process referred to as scavenging.

The air pressure, and therefore heat, can be increased with a mechanical blower or by taking advantage of the Venturi effect.

Gas forges vary in size and construction, from large forges using a big burner with a blower or several atmospheric burners to forges built out of a coffee can utilizing a cheap, simple propane torch.

During the ball draw, a blower pushes air into the bubble and mixes the balls.

With a 2. 5 L six-cylinder engine, all-steel body, front independent suspension, hydraulic shock absorbers, hot-water heating ( with electric blower ), and central speedometer.

The most complex designs use vine choppers and shakers, along with a blower system or " Flying Willard " to separate the potatoes from the plant.

* Cornicen ( Horn blower ): Worked hand in hand with the signifer drawing the attention of the men to the centurial signum and issuing the audible commands of the officers.

Stopcocks are generally available individually with some length of glass tubing at the ports so that they can be joined by a glass blower into custom apparatus at the point of use.