Shaft drives were introduced over a century ago, but were mostly supplanted by chain-driven bicycles due to the gear ranges possible with sprockets and derailleurs.

Shaft drives are typically more complex to disassemble when repairing flat rear tires, and the manufacturing cost is typically higher.

The Shaft of Hands sequence was filmed on a rig that was roughly forty feet high, and required nearly a hundred performers to operate the grey, scaly hands integral to the scene.

Much of the filming of the post-strike devastation was shot at the Grand Shaft Barracks, Dover.

* c. 1550 BC – 1500 BC — Dagger blades with lion hunt, from Shaft Grave IV, Grave Circle A, at Mycenae, Greece, are made.

After a quick fight, Shaft throws one of them out the window ; while the other surrenders and reveals to him that Bumpy, the leader of an uptown gang, wanted to meet Shaft and knock him out at his office.

Shaft and Ben later meet Bumpy at his uptown office where Shaft ups the price for the job, based on his new-found information from Vic.

Vic tells Shaft that the room that he was in at the station house was bugged and he is supposed to bring him in for questioning, but instead leaves.

), Shaft tells Ben to round up his men and meet him at the hotel where Marcy has been taken, to prepare to get her back.

As Shaft plan goes on it resembles a military commando-style operation, Ben's men all dress as workers at the hotel ( cooks, waiters, elevator operators, etc.

Shaft haulage is more economical than truck haulage at depth, and a mine may have both a decline and a ramp.

* Three crosses at Kilkieran, County Tipperary: Plain Cross ( unadorned ), West Cross ( with much ornamentation ), Long Shaft Cross ( has a long shaft with decoration ).

The Sonman Mine explosion occurred on July 15, 1940, at the Sonman Shaft Coal Co. near Portage.

Unlike the soundtracks to other blaxploitation films ( most notably Isaac Hayes ' score for Shaft ), which glorified the ghetto excesses of the characters, Mayfield's lyrics consisted of hard-hitting commentary on the state of affairs in black, urban ghettos at the time, as well as direct criticisms of several characters in the film.

The Black Country suffered its biggest economic blows in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when unemployment soared largely because of the closure of historic large factories including the Round Oak Steel Works at Brierley Hill and the Patent Shaft steel plant at Wednesbury.

2007 Kukulkan / Quetzalcoat, Death God, and Creation Mythology of Burial Shaft Temples at Mayapan.

This permitted further exploration, and in 1999 Titan Shaft was discovered, at the deepest pitch in Britain.

While that film featured a larger " all star " cast ( in fact, Universal had approached several, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to star in Earthquake-but they had already been signed for Inferno ), Universal was able to land Charlton Heston in the lead role, along with Ava Gardner ( who signed at the proverbial " 11th hour " simply because she wanted to spend the summer in Los Angeles ), George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold ( who agreed to a part in the film to head off an impending lawsuit by Universal over a prior project ), Richard Roundtree ( riding a wave of success from the Shaft film series ), former evangelical Marjoe Gortner as an antagonist, and newcomer Victoria Principal.

In 1876, the Upright Shaft was broken in an accident at the mill.

An elevator cage at Shaft 3 was thrown to the surface, damaging pit-head workings ; windows and roofs were blown out on the surface at Shaft 4 ; an elevator cage raised at Shaft 2 contained only dead and unconscious miners.

There was a brief flowering of English progressive folk in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by group such as Comus, Dando Shaft, The Trees, Spirogyra, Forest, and Jan Dukes De Grey, but commercial success was elusive for these bands and most had broken up or moved in very different directions by about 1973.

Hayes ' performance of " Rolling Down a Mountain " in the original version of the film was recorded on a sound stage at a later date because MGM refused to allow the film-makers to use Hayes ' concert performances of " Theme from Shaft " and " Soulsville ".

It also contained some great bits, like Bart and Lisa ’ s karaoke performance of the ' Theme from Shaft '.

Shaft takes over the bar from the bartender, and calls the cops without the two Mafiosi knowing.

Shaft must pass a test before being hired for the job ; the test involves him surviving in a small, overheated room without water, and a floor covered in deep sand, mimicking the supposed conditions of Africa.

Vic pleads to Shaft to just clue him in to what's going on, though Vic already knew Bumpy was looking for Shaft.

The film was also entitled Diamond Shaft, though it has no relation to the Shaft films other than having Roundtree in the cast.

Due to the area around the site still being inhabited, and hence not excavated, it is unknown whether any further fortifications exist ( though a further tower to the south of that protecting Warren's Shaft is thought likely ).

* Shaft — straight or slightly angled, typically wider front-to-back than side-to-side, flat on the sides and smoothly rounded on the ends.

The Knox castastrophe was less deadly than the Twin Shaft Disaster in Pittston in 1896, which claimed 58 lives.

The blurb on the paperback on which the original film is based states Shaft is " Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt.

Along with Beta Aquilae and Gamma Aquilae, it forms the well-known line of stars sometimes referred to as the Family of Aquila or Shaft of Aquila.

Upon discovering the Shaft Graves, with their skeletons and more regal gold ( including the Mask of Agamemnon ), Schliemann cabled the king of Greece.

Shaft mining was done in some areas, but the limiting factor was the problem of removing water.

* June 28 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.

:... there is nothing in the Middle Helladic world to prepare us for the furious splendor of the Shaft Graves.

Two well preserved bodies were found in Shaft Grave VI, and Helbig believed that an embalming preceded the burial.

Shaft couplings are used in machinery for several purposes, the most common of which are the following.

Shaft straighteners made of ground stone indicate the practice of archery.

One of the quests in Uldaman also requires the player to collect the Shaft of Tsol and Amulet of Gni ' Kiv, which spell out " Lost " and " Vik ' ing " when read backwards.

Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster.

It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Drew Bundini Brown as Willy, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, and Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman in smaller roles.

The Shaft soundtrack album, recorded by Isaac Hayes, was also a success, winning a Grammy Award for Best Original Score ; the " Theme from Shaft " won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and has appeared on multiple Top 100 lists, including AFI's 100 Years … 100 Songs.

In 2000, Shaft, widely considered a prime example of the blaxploitation genre, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Shaft, a private detective, emerges from the New York City subway and walking through Times Square, with scenes characterizing early 1970s New York.

Shaft visits a shoeshine parlor, and is informed that some gangsters are looking for him.

Police Lt Vic Androzzi meets Shaft outside the parlor ; and unsuccessfully tries to get information from him on the two gangsters.

After Lt Androzzi leaves, Shaft spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building.