A bucket brigade or human chain is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next.
4-482: (Redirected from Human Chain ) Human chain may refer to: Bucket brigade (for transporting items by passing them from hand to hand) Human chain (politics) (a form of social expression) Human Chain (poetry collection) , a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney Human Chain (band) , a British jazz ensemble Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-409: The bucket-brigade device . The term "bucket brigade" is also used for a certain method of organizing manual order picking in distribution centers. Here customer orders to be processed are passed from one order picker to the next. When the last picker in line has finished picking an order they walk back and take over the work of the next-to-last picker, who in their turn also walk back and so on, until
12-465: The title Human chain . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_chain&oldid=895524675 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bucket brigade The method
16-417: Was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze. This technique is still common where using machines to move water, supplies, or other items would be impractical. This method needs a number of participants sufficient for covering the distance. This principle inspired various technical items, e.g.
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