Stovepipe

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A stovepipe is the pipe which conducts smoke from a coal or wood-burning stove to its chimney.

Stovepipe may also refer to:

Clothing

• Stovepipe hat, tall top hat with a consistent width
• Stovepipe pants, style of slim-fit pants also known as drainpipes

Computing and information theory

• Stovepipe (organisation), where the structure of the organization restricts flow of information through rigid lines of control
• Stovepipe system, the informal name given to a category of criticisms applied to assemblages of technology, sometimes also referred to as stovepiping
• Stovepiping, the use of improper channels to pass unvetted information to policy-makers
• In load balancing (computing), a stovepipe may refer to a method of enterprise design

Economy & Health Care

• Stovepipe, is a system created to solve a specific problem. There is limited focus and its data can not be shared. It shows how money funded for research is not evenly allocated- but goes into one specific aid. Stove piping is considered a top down way of thinking, or a vertical approach.
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Geography

• Stovepipe Wells, a small way-station in the northern part of Death Valley, in unincorporated Inyo County, California
• Stovepipe Wells Airport, a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of Death Valley National Park, serving Inyo County, California, USA

People

• Adam R. "Stovepipe" Johnson (1834–1922), American Civil War colonel
• Daddy Stovepipe (1867–1963), African-American blues singer

Other uses

• Stovepipe, firearm malfunction in shooting
• Stovepipe, to describe the shape of a tornado in storm chasing
• Stovepipe, a play by Adam Brace produced in collaboration with the National Theatre in London in 2009.

References

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