Many patent contests were waged over automobile components and accessories, among them tires, detachable rims, ball bearings, license brackets, and electric horns.

Many musicians feel the slower attack and percussive, woody tone of the upright bass gives it a more " earthy " or " natural " sound than an electric bass, particularly when gut strings are used.

Many electric guitars are fitted with a vibrato and pitch bend device known as a " tremolo bar ( or arm )," " sissy bar ," " wang bar ," " slam handle ," " whammy handle ," and " whammy bar.

Many other buffers have been proposed, e. g. lithium borate, which is almost never used, based on Pubmed citations ( LB ), iso electric histidine, pK matched goods buffers, etc.

Many different systems have been used in the past but modern engines are usually started by an electric motor in the small and medium sizes or by compressed air in the large sizes.

Many Chinese cooks use Western style cast-iron pans for stir-frying on electric stoves, since they hold enough heat for the required sustained high temperatures.

Many spacecraft propulsion methods such as ion thrusters require an input of electric power to run but are highly efficient.

Many large outboards are equipped with power trim, an electric motor on the mounting bracket, with a switch at the helm that enables the operator to adjust the trim angle on the fly.

Many different energy sources can be used for welding, including a gas flame, an electric arc, a laser, an electron beam, friction, and ultrasound.

Many households have a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances.

Many homemakers use a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances.

Many small appliance mills are available, both hand-cranked and electric.

Many Dobro-style guitars are now hybrid electric guitars, and some manufacturers are adding strings to create 7-and 8-string resonator-style guitars.

Many hypotheses have been proposed, ranging from including runaway breakdown to locally enhanced electric fields near elongated water droplets or ice crystals.

Many resistors and conductors have a uniform cross section with a uniform flow of electric current and are made of one material.

Many factories saw a 30 % increase in output just from changing over to electric motors.

Many of the lines are electric, several are diesel powered, while some of these are currently being converted to electric.

Many of these were built in The Broads and The Fens, of East Anglia for the draining of land, but most of them have since been replaced by diesel or electric powered pumps.

Many contemporaries predicted the failure of electric telegraphs because " they are so easy to cut.

Many electric slide guitar players will admit to the influence of James ' style.

Many early scientists attributed the magnetism of lodestones to two different " magnetic fluids " (" effluvia "), a north-pole fluid at one end and a south-pole fluid at the other, which attracted and repelled each other in analogy to positive and negative electric charge.

Many electric ranges have a simmer setting.

Many exceptions existed, generating stations were dedicated to power or light by the choice of frequency, and rotating frequency changers and rotating converters were particularly common to feed electric railway systems from the general lighting and power network.

Many elevators also have various devices installed to maximize ventilation, safeguards against overheating in belt conveyors, legs, bearing, and explosion-proof electrical devices such as electric motors, switches and lighting.

Many informal intoxication tests exist, which are generally unreliable and not recommended as deterrents to excessive intoxication or as indicators of the safety of activities such as motor vehicle driving, heavy equipment operation, machine tool use, etc.

Many IFVs utilize firing ports allowing infantry to fire without leaving the protection of the vehicle.

Many wheeled IFVs can extract themselves from a battlefield with specialised run-flat tires when not operating in difficult terrain, while an IFV with damaged tracks would require its tracks repaired in the field or an armoured recovery vehicle to tow it out.

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

Many vehicles also carry the international vehicle identification code ( in black on a white oval sticker ), which is " RSM ".

Many vehicles are only narrowly suborbital, so practically anything that gives a relatively small delta-v increase can be helpful, and outside assistance for a vehicle is therefore desirable.

Many in the aerospace community concluded that an entirely self-contained, reusable single-stage vehicle could solve these problems.

Many customers were loyal Oldsmobile buyers who specifically wanted the Rocket V8, and did not discover that their vehicle had the Chevrolet engine until they performed maintenance and discovered that purchased parts did not fit.

Many, but not all, kit cars are given a ' Q ' registration plate which signifies a vehicle of unknown or mixed age.

Many other instances have been reported of heavy construction equipment vanishing into muskeg in the spring as the frozen muskeg beneath the vehicle thawed.

Many of these systems are applied as upgrades to existing armour, which makes them difficult to place around the entire vehicle.

Many OECD countries have taxed fuel directly for many years for some applications ; for example, the UK imposes duty directly on vehicle hydrocarbon oils, including petrol and diesel fuel.

Many space exploration rovers can be remotely controlled, though vast distance to a vehicle results in a long time delay between transmission and receipt of a command.

Many crossings other than in conventional vessels have been attempted, including by pedalo, bathtub, amphibious vehicle and more commonly by swimming.

* Many states offer distinctive Medal of Honor vehicle license plates to recipients without additional charges or fees.

Many next generation video games feature motion blur, especially vehicle simulation games.

Many UK Police forces have also adopted the Astra as the standard patrol vehicle.

Many horse shows host driving competitions for a particular style of driving, breed of horse, or type of vehicle.

Many who sought the election of working men and their advocates to the Parliament of the United Kingdom saw the Liberal Party as the main vehicle for achieving this aim.

Many of his most successful designs use auctions as a vehicle to price risk, as in Ra, Medici, and Modern Art.

Many modern vehicles offer a form of passive rear steering to counteract normal vehicle tendencies.

Many are of American or Canadian origin and seek to describe the vehicle or its occupants in derisive ways.

Many modern automatic transmissions have a safety mechanism in place, which does to some extent prevent ( but does not completely avoid ) inadvertently putting the car in reverse when the vehicle is moving forwards.

Many systems have proposed the use of aircraft to gain some initial velocity and altitude ; either by towing, carrying or even simply refueling a vehicle at altitude.

Many U. S. states, such as Louisiana and Arizona, include defending oneself against forcible entry of an occupied motor vehicle as part of their definition of justifiable homicide.