sprinkler

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For decades scientists have been trying to solve Feynman's Sprinkler Problem: How does a sprinkler running in reverse -- in which the water flows into the device rather than out of it -- work?

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

“A typical fire is not like the movies where sprinklers go off everywhere,” says Nancy Hammond, owner of Reliance Fire Protection in Seattle and chair of the Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board of Puget Sound.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Sprinkler systems have been installed elsewhere, including along the Trail of 100 Giants in Long Meadow Grove and the around the well-known General Grant Tree in a grove tucked inside Kings Canyon National Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2021

It might be called the Sprinkler in honour of England’s dance against the Aussies.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2018

The Cardinal Arch-priest perfum’d him with Incense thrice, and presented the Sprinkler to him, which the Pope dipp’d into the Holy Water, and therewith sprinkled the Clergy and Laity.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von