The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig.

The first attempt at building a larger swift vessel was in America with the Ann McKim, 494 tons OM, built on the enlarged lines of a Baltimore clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig.

Although the Ann McKim was the first large clipper ship ever constructed, it cannot be said that she founded the clipper ship era, or even that she directly influenced shipbuilders, since no other ship was built like her ; but she may have suggested the clipper design in vessels of ship rig.

Regardless of the date, this was enfranchisement in name only, since Tubman continued to repress political opposition, and to rig elections.

There is a suggestion that the rig was sometimes used in a lateen style with the top cross spar dipped at an angle to aid sailing to windward i. e. the spar became the luff.

It was not difficult for crooks to rig illegal " wine synagogues " to trick the government to receive their wine which would then be bootlegged.

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Louisiana Story ( 1948 ) was a Flaherty documentary shot by himself and Richard Leacock, this one about the installation of an oil rig in a Louisiana swamp.

When the team debuted as the Oilers in 1960, the club's logo was an oil rig derrick.

Whilst the cutter rig with twin foresails was once the standard rig for most cruising yachts until the 1960s ( when it began to be replaced by the two-sail sloop rig ) it is now only commonly found on larger cruising yachts ( usually around and over ).

The Deepcore rig was anchored to a 90-ton concrete column at the bottom of the large tank.

This became the Bermuda rig, and was appearing on Bermudian ships by the early 19th century.

The " lake " in which Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) crashes his X-wing in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was only deep, requiring the creation of a rig resembling the starfighter sitting in the lake at an angle.

Since the main rig took time to put up and take down, they implemented another rig, which was capable of being erected faster than the main rig.

It was called the emergency rig.

It was known as the emergency rig because its main use was to get the ship out faster if it got into trouble and could not get the main rig up fast enough.

In Bermuda, countless vessels of otherwise identical description were built with between one and three masts, carrying Gaff or Bermuda rig.

A multi-engine test rig was built and tested in 1956, resulting in powerful thrust and a great deal of noise, and vibration.

The classic ship rig originally had exactly three masts, but four and five masted ships were also built.

The nature of the rig places no extreme loads anywhere on the sail or rigging, thus can be built using light-weight, less expensive materials.

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After the flood Piper gave 32 written-off PA-28s, PA-31s and PA-23 Aztecs to NASA, which used them for crash tests at the Langley Research Center, using a rig originally built to simulate spacecraft landings on the moon for the Apollo program.

The first rotary drilling rig, built at the then staggering price of $ 25, 000, was placed into use near Borger by W. T.

The yawl was originally developed as a rig for commercial fishing boats, one good example of this being the Salcombe Yawl ( a small traditional fishing boat built in Devon ).

The first archetypal clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig, was, built in Baltimore in 1833 by Kennard & Williamson.

The development of the rig is thought to have begun with fore-and-aft rigged boats built by a Dutch-born Bermudian in the 17th Century.

In the same period the yard also built the semisubmersible drilling rig Sea Quest which, due to its three-legged design, was launched down three parallel slipways.

In 1948, 20-year old Newman Darby was the first to conceive the idea of using a handheld sail and rig mounted on a universal joint so that he could control his small catamaran -- the first rudderless sailboard ever built that allowed a person to steer by shifting his or her weight in order to tilt the sail fore and aft.

In his own words, Darby experimented throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s and it wasn't until 1963 that an improved sailboard with a conventional stayed sloop rig sail arrangement made it more stable than the one built in 1948.

The main differences from American scows were sharper bows and favoring the ketch rig instead of the schooner rig, although a great many schooner and topsail schooner rigged vessels were built.

His current amp rig consists of a Bogner Fish Preamp running into a Mesa / Boogie 2: Ninety Power amp, and a Bogner Uberschall or Shiva ran with a custom " Marsha " head built by Dave Friedman.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

The first three-masted ( i. e. " ship rigged ") sloops appeared during the 1740s, and from the mid-1750s most new sloops were built with a three-masted ( ship ) rig.

A 16 foot test rig was built in the form of a tripod, one of the legs being in the form of guide rails.

This type of diving equipment is also known as hard-hat equipment or a " John Brown " rig, so-called after the British company that built many of the helmets.

A standard cable would break when the rig went around corners so it is coiled and retains these coils when not under tension.

The first modern sloops were fitted with the Bermuda rig, so called as a result of its development in Bermuda, during the 17th century.

Heavy drop rigging is an intricate process requiring experienced parachute riggers to rig the load so that in the air the parachutes properly balance the load.

The Picavet line runs through eye hooks or small pulleys so that the weight of the rig causes it to settle naturally into a level position.

Nina has two other scenes to shoot as well, but Cameron is convinced Eli will rig the stunt so he will die.

Trey responded through friend and longtime collaborator Tom Marshall's website explaining that he had lost his original Ross Compressor and that he was so touched that people cared about his effects and guitar tone that he would add the gift to his rig in the original configuration where it has remained ever since.

Living in squats around Europe and working at various jobs, hotel kitchen worker, motorbike messenger, at a ladies shoes factory, as an accounts clerk ( in the days before computers ), a night shift worker at the old Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam, junior draftsman at a North Sea oil rig design company ( he was ' creative ' with his CV ') and so on.

The team then learns that a computer technician, Piotr Lejava, is trying to prevent data in the rig's computers from falling into NATO hands, which can only be accessed via the technician's encryption key, and so Fisher trails Lejava around the oil rig until he finally catches him and obtains his laptop along with his encryption key.

Therefore, the theory goes, church and judicial authorities would routinely rig ordeals so that the participants — presumably innocent — could pass them.

The cutter sailing rig became so ubiquitous for these tasks that the modern-day motorised vessels now engaged in these duties are known as ' cutters '.

Massa left with the fuel rig attached and so had to stop at the end of the pitlane.

Gaff vangs are difficult to rig on the aft-most sail, so are typically only found on schooners or ketches, and then only on the foresail or mainsail.

The facility features pop up tents so that once soaped, the victims can file on either side of the rig ( one gender on each side ) to rinse in specially designed showers where they can remove all clothing, dry off, and receive replacement clothing or other suitable modesty garb ( i. e., makeshift clothing such as bedsheets, tablecloths, or garbage bags with head and arm cutouts ).

His effects rig became so big that Rocktron All Access MIDI controllers are used both on and off stage to control everything.

After sailing on such a vessel, Charles was so impressed that his eventual successor, The Prince of Orange presented him with a copy of his own, which Charles named Bezaan, The rig had been introduced to Bermuda some decades before this.

Gunter rig is normally used on small gaff rigged sailing vessels, such as sailing canoes ( not the International Canoe ) and dinghies where the gaff is carried very nearly vertical, forming an extension to the mast so that the sail is triangular and mimics a Bermuda rig.

There was much jockeying to do to move shovels: rails and timber blocks to move ; cables and block purchases to attach ; chains and slings to rig ; and so on.

) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school – such as that for prom queen – so that his daughter Harriet would win.

The Doctor suggests Scorby rig up a bomb so they can all escape while the Krynoid is distracted.

It became the inspiration for a forty foot aluminium tube lighting rig used for their shows, a replica of a Heinkel He 111 bomber that could fly backwards and forwards, and side to side-the first to be able to do so.

For these scenes when he is seen in the position in mid-air, he was immersed in a swimming pool and harnessed to a rig that rotated him 360 degrees so his clothes floated freely about him.

A test rig was constructed in South Africa and results were so encouraging that du Toit was promoted and sent to England to develop the idea.