Leopold ran up high debts with his Congo investments before salvation came with the beginning of the worldwide rubber boom in the 1890s.

National highways ran through the city, especially through the congested business section, and Kobe contained business facilities for steel, machinery, rubber, railway equipment, and ordnance.

Three of the eight ran on rubber wheels, four were air cushion vehicles ( hovercrafts ) including a version of the famous French Aérotrain, while the German firm Krauss-Maffei entered their Transurban system, a smaller version of their Transrapid magnetically levitated train.

Advertisements that ran for Magellan at the time promised to " Get all your ducks in a row " and showed a picture of a line of obedient rubber ducks.

The system, which uses rubber tires and travels along a fixed underground guideway, is similar to the people mover systems at Singapore Changi Airport, Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and Denver International Airport.

Even with the challenges imposed by shortages in rayon, nylon, wool, leather, rubber, metal ( for snaps, buckles, and embellishments ) and even the amount of fabric that could be used in any one garment, the fashion industry's wheels kept chugging slowly along, producing what it could.

Other travelers use a flat rubber hose that is dragged along behind while the sprinkler platform is pulled by a cable.

In small passages, such as that between the plant cell walls ( or in tracheids ), a column of water behaves like rubber – when molecules evaporate from one end, they literally pull the molecules behind them along the channels.

The rubber form and form box pass along a bed of rollers to a paint shop where the rubber form is covered with a thin veneer of water-based paint.

The fundamental materials of modern tires are synthetic rubber, natural rubber, fabric and wire, along with other compound chemicals.

The rubber dam is held over individual teeth or groups of teeth by appropriate rubber dam clamps or threads ( ligatures ) along the edge of the gum.

In 1915, worried about the possibility of a German blockade of rubber imports, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J. P. Morgan founded the farm along the Santa Cruz River with hopes of growing guayule: plants that provide rubber.

In 1915, worried about the possibility of a German blockade of rubber imports, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J. P. Morgan founded the farm along the Santa Cruz River with hopes of growing guayule: plants that provide rubber.

Suppose that a worm crawls along a 1 metre rubber band and, after each minute, the rubber band is uniformly stretched by an additional 1 metre.

For a trolleybus there are no rails to send the return current along — the vehicles use rubber tyres and the normal road surface.

Two million coffee trees were planted and rubber trees grew on, along with large cotton plantations.

Observers have compared the sight of a Tibetan Ground-tit moving along to a small greyish-brown rubber ball.

The base Ventura interior consisted of bench seats and rubber floor mats, Bucket seats could be added for $ 132 ( Code A51 ), while the Ventura Custom had upgraded bench seats or optional Strato bucket seats along with carpeting, cushioned steering wheel, and custom pedal trim.

White clay mining ( for the production of porcelain ) and fishing are now the main industries, along with rubber and cashew nuts.

* It is not a closed loop, because the second terminal is passed back through the center of the toroid core ( commonly a plastic or rubber tube ) and connected along the first terminal.

Even a tachyon would not move along the path that one might naively expect from a " rubber sheet " analogy: in particular, if the dimple is drawn pointing upward rather than downward, the tachyon's path still curves toward the central mass, not away.

The fundamental materials of modern tires are synthetic rubber, natural rubber, fabric and wire, along with other compound chemicals.

Visually it differed to the 931 in that it had polyurethane plastic front and rear flared guards, a polyurethane plastic front spoiler, a top mounted air scoop for the intercooler, a much larger rubber rear spoiler and a flush mounted front windscreen.

Often the heel of the sole has a rubber plate for durability and traction, while the front is leather for style.

This scanner required the use of a water-filled Perspex tank with a pre-shaped rubber " head-cap " at the front, which enclosed the patient's head.

1968 introduced the Endura ' rubber ' front bumper on the GTO, the precursor to modern cars ' integrated bumpers, and the first of a series " Ram Air " engines, which featured the induction of cold air to the carburetor ( s ) for more power, and took away some of the sting from deleting the famous Tri-Power multiple carburation option from the engine line up.

Tractors can be generally classified as two-wheel drive, two-wheel drive with front wheel assist, four-wheel drive ( often with articulated steering ), or track tractors ( with either two or four powered rubber tracks ).

The rubber bullets are loaded into the front of the adapter, and propelled with a blank cartridge.

The duck brake used a rod operated by a lever on the handlebar to pull twin rubber rollers against the front tyre, braking the front wheel.

The spoon brake consists of a pad ( often leather ) or metal shoe ( possibly rubber faced ), which is pressed onto the top of the front tyre.

Invented in 1897, the duck brake, aka Duck Roller Brake used a rod operated by a lever on the handlebar to pull twin friction rollers ( usually made of wood or rubber ) against the front tyre.

The impact of either a shaped charge jet or long-rod penetrator after the first layer has been perforated and while the rubber layer is being penetrated will cause the rubber to deform and expand, so deforming both the back and front plates.

British Leyland engineers added two large protruding rubber bumper blocks to the front and rear of the MGB, MG Midget and Triumph TR-6 sports cars.

Bumpers were the most noticeable differences, as the TE had larger chromed steel bumpers with rubber coated ends and additional indicators in the front wings.

The rolled ends then pass around the neck until they meet in front of it, where they are secured together, either with a knot, such as a reef knot or a slip knot, or with a rubber band or other fastener ( called a woggle or neckerchief slide ) and allowed to hang.

* 500R: MZ's first four-stroke motorcycle, essentially an ETZ251 with a Rotax 500 cc engine fitted, although the engine was no longer rubber mounted and a front down tube provided extra support.

The keyboard itself was built into the front half of the case, much like a notebook computer, and had a rubber mat placed beneath the keycaps which acted as a liquid spill guard.

In front they had a rubber collar that was clamped around the absorbent canister.

It featured an energy absorbing " S " shaped front end, torque boxes to isolate road shock, fourteen rubber body mounts and five solid cross members.

The chugging mechanisms of the premium O gauge tenders were redesigned to also generate smoke, which was conveyed to the engines ' smokestacks via a black rubber tube that protruded out of the rear of the cab so that it could connect to the front of the tender.

* Such loading is from one or more latex rubber bands ( usually tubing )- which provide the propelling force-and are about one third of the barrel length and from 9 – 20mm in diameter, being attached to the front of the gun.

Each bogie had two small rubber road wheels with the drive sprocket at the front and the idler at the rear.