The new engine had mechanically operated intake valves, as opposed to the " automatic " intake valves used on earlier V-Twins that opened by engine vacuum.

Other commonly seen gadgets in the series include a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner ; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk ; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses ' necks ; " automatic " windows powered by monkeys on the outside ; birds acting as " car horns ," sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies ; an " electric " razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside ; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water ; and a woodpecker whose beak is used to play a gramophone record.

Electromatic, Packard's name for its electrically controlled, vacuum operated automatic clutch.

Conversely, the vacuum brake had the advantage of gradual release long before the Westinghouse automatic air brake, which was originally only available in the direct-release form still common in freight service.

This was the opposite of the arrangement preferred by the Board of Trade (' automatic continuous brakes ') in which brakes were held off by vacuum ( or compressed air ) generated by the engine, so that on loss of vacuum ( e. g. from a leaky connection or a connection parting ) the brakes came on automatically.

* " brake " Continuous brakes, to put at the command of the engine driver adequate braking power ; this requirement being increased as the technology made it reasonable to ' automatic ' ( in modern parlance ' fail-safe ') continuous brakes which had to be ' held off ' by vacuum or compressed air and would be applied automatically if that supply was lost ( e. g. if a train were divided ).

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

A variant, the automatic vacuum brake system, became almost universal in British train equipment and in countries influenced by British practice.

The automatic vacuum brake had been developed: it was designed to apply fully if the train becomes divided or if a hose becomes displaced, but opposition on the grounds of cost ( particularly by the LNWR and its chairman Richard Moon ) to the fitting of the automatic type of brake meant that it took a serious accident at Armagh in 1889 before legislation compelled the automatic system.

In its simplest form, the automatic vacuum brake consists of a continuous pipe — the train pipe — running throughout the length of the train.

The provision of a train pipe running throughout the train enabled the automatic vacuum brake to be operated in emergency from any position in the train.

The progress represented by the automatic vacuum brake nonetheless carried some limitations ; chief among these were:

The electro-vacuum system uses a train pipe and basic automatic vacuum brake system, with the addition of electrically-controlled application and release valves in each vehicle.

* Low and vacuum pressure safety valve ( LVPSV ): an automatic system that relieves static pressure on a gas.

The car featured an automatic clutch which was commonly described as a three-speed semi-automatic gearbox: there was no clutch pedal, but instead, on top of the gearknob, an electric switch that operated a vacuum system which disengaged the clutch.

* Low and vacuum pressure safety valve ( LVPSV ): An automatic system that relieves by the static pressure of a gas.

The trains were fitted with an automatic vacuum brake.

A clutch servo powered by the vacuum at the induction manifold operated the automatic clutch-a conventional clutch incorporating centrifugal operation.

It featured special color-matched fender flares and front air dam, ' Rally-Tuned ' suspension with front and rear sway bars, high-effort power steering gears, adjustable Gabriel ( brand name ) ' Strider ' shock absorbers, heavy-duty semi-metallic front disk brakes with ribbed 10x1. 2-inch ( 254x30. 5 mm ) rear drum brakes, unique AMX grille, " Turbocast II " 14x7-inch aluminum road wheels with ER60x14 Goodyear " Flexten " GT radial RWL ( raised white letter ) tires, rear spoiler, special striping package, hood and door decals, console shifted automatic or manual transmission with ' Rallye Gauge ' package ( total of eight dials including an intake-manifold vacuum gauge ), as well as simulated aluminum dash overlays with AMX badge on the glove compartment door.

An automatic siphon can be created with an inverted ring shaped sprinkler, a garden hose, a wet / dry vacuum, a check valve installed in the vacuum, and a digital timer.

** George Westinghouse patents the " failsafe " automatic railway air brake.

Upon the introduction of the Subaru Legacy in 1989, Subaru networked the four channel anti-lock brake function with the all wheel drive system so that if the car detected any wheel beginning to lock up, the variable assist all wheel drive system installed on vehicles with the automatic transmission would engage to ensure all wheels were actively gripping while the anti-lock system was attempting to stop the car.

The M1946 Sieg automatic rifle had an unusual muzzle brake that made the rifle climb downwards, but enabled the user to fire it with one hand in full automatic.

The Edsel offered several innovative features, among which were its " rolling dome " speedometer, warning lights for such conditions as low oil level, parking brake engaged, and engine overheating, as well as its Push-button Teletouch transmission shifting system in the center of the steering wheel ( a conventional column-shift automatic was also available at less cost ).

The United States Congress passed the Safety Appliance Act in 1893 making the use of some automatic brake system mandatory.

In most cases the system is not fail-safe, with the wires being energized in sequence to apply the brakes, but the conventional automatic air brake is also provided to act as a fail safe, and in most cases can be used independently in the event of a failure of the EP brakes.

Later systems replace the automatic air brake with an electrical wire ( in the UK, at least, known as a " round the train wire ") that has to be kept energized to keep the brakes off.

Optional equipment included a four-speed manual, Super Turbine 300 two-speed automatic transmission, a more powerful " Tri-Power " carburation rated at, metallic drum brake linings, limited slip differential, heavy-duty cooling, ride and handling package, and the usual array of power and convenience accessories.

* ETZ250: The first road going MZ to include a disk front brake and automatic oil injection.

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This terrible calamity would in all human probability have been prevented had the excursion train been fitted with an automatic continuous brake instead of ( as it was ) with only a non-automatic continuous brake.

It may also be remarked that the ordinary train had a narrow escape from serious collision between the portions into which it was divided, or with buffer stops ; whereas had it been supplied with an automatic brake, there would have been no risk of such collisions.

* in the whole of Ireland only one engine and six vehicles were equipped with an automatic continuous brake

The automatic leveling system described in this section is readily adaptable to a gyro-stabilized platform consisting of three integrating gyros.

According to Robert M. Gray of Stanford University, the first ideas leading to LPC started in 1966 when S. Saito and F. Itakura of NTT described an approach to automatic phoneme discrimination that involved the first maximum likelihood approach to speech coding.

Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic " all rights reserved " copyright, dubbed " some rights reserved.

The steampunk novel Starcross also included references to a ' flat cat ', but whimsically described it as a terrestrial domestic cat flattened by an automatic laundry mangle.

Multitrack technology enabled the development of modern art music and one such artist, Brian Eno, described the tape recorder as " an automatic musical collage device ".

An automatic, water-powered spinning wheel for hemp fiber was described in Chinese scientific manuals by the early 14th century ; comparable devices would not be invented in Europe until the 18th century.

In the 9th century, the Banū Mūsā brothers invented a programmable automatic flute player and which they described in their Book of Ingenious Devices.

Cars of this size featuring automatic transmission were still unusual due to the amount of power the transmission systems absorbed: in a heartfelt if uncharacteristically blunt piece of criticism a major British motoring journal later described Viva HBs with automatic transmission as ' among the slowest cars on the road '.

A 1998 article in Psychological Science described a series of experiments designed to determine whether people who believed in automatic writing could be shown that it might be the ideomotor effect.

The crankshaft described by al-Jazari transforms continuous rotary motion into a linear reciprocating motion, and is central to modern machinery such as the steam engine, internal combustion engine and automatic controls.

Inspired by a radio programme on Mozart's method of composition — described as " creative automatism ", i. e. each creative idea written down inspired a new idea — Reutersvärd started to draw a series of impossible objects on a journey from Stockholm to Paris in 1950 in the same " unconscious, automatic " way.

The first, within the colony itself, included three containers with machine guns, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and large quantities of ammunition, some as many as forty years old ; even a battle tank was found under the ground: this cache was described as the largest arsenal ever found in private hands in Chile.

* Face the Devil: By the end of the CBS run, the " Face the Devil " round described above had been implemented, except a natural triple did not constitute an automatic win in the CBS version.

" Tynan described the play as " a minor miracle ": " All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage — the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of ' official ' attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour ( Jimmy describes an effeminate male friend as ' a female Emily Brontë '), the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.

The flight crew responded by throttling down a little, but an automatic system ( ATR, Automatic Thrust Restoration ) that had not been described to the flight crew by the Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ), simultaneously increased throttle as a response to increasing altitude.

Today's SDI systems owe a great deal to a 1958 paper by Luhn, " A Business Intelligence System ", which described an " automatic method to provide current awareness services to scientists and engineers " who needed help to cope with the rapid post-war growth of scientific and technical literature.

An automatic double is the term used to refer to a fairly hit ball leaving the field in circumstances that do not merit a home run as described in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) rules 6. 09 ( e ) through 6. 09 ( h ).

David Parnas, tracing the history of " automatic programming " in published research, noted that in the 1940s it described automation of the manual process of punching paper tape.

Although it was described as a form automatic transmission at the time, in retrospect it was more realistically a form of automatic clutch, inspired by the German Saxomat device which appeared as an option on several mainstream German cars in the 1950s and 60s.

Willis then travelled to the Caribbean as part of England's winter tour, in what Wisden described as an " automatic selection " however he was to struggle against the top Test side.

The paddle shifters have two distinct advantages: the driver can safely keep both hands on the steering wheel when using the Manual / tiptronic mode ; and the driver can temporarily manually override either of the automatic programmes ( D or S ), and gain instant manual control of the DSG transmission ( within the above described constraints ).