As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

More and more boats move overland on wheels ( 1.8 million trailers are now in use ) and Midwesterners taking long weekends can travel south with their craft.

Advanced wheelchairs include systems like the iBOT, which can balance on the its rear wheels, raising the occupant up to around six feet.

Consider the assembly of a car: assume that certain steps in the assembly line are to install the engine, install the hood, and install the wheels ( in that order, with arbitrary interstitial steps ); only one of these steps can be done at a time.

While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and fitted with a hood, then to the wheels station and be fitted with wheels.

* The bogie frame: This can be of inside frame type where the main frame and bearings are between the wheels, or ( more commonly ) of outside frame type where the main frame and bearings are outside the wheels.

Often, low-floor trams are fitted with nonpivoting bogies and many tramway enthusiasts see this as a retrograde step, as it leads to more wear of both track and wheels and also significantly reduces the speed at which a tram can round a curve.

The mouse sometimes features other elements, such as " wheels ", which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features that can add more control or dimensional input.

This implies that square wheels can roll perfectly smoothly if the road has evenly spaced bumps in the shape of a series of inverted catenary curves.

The sector gears are double-high on one side so they can be lifted to disengage from the odd column wheels while they still remain in contact with the even column wheels.

The aircraft can fold its wings in 30 seconds and drive the front wheels, enabling it to operate as a traditional road vehicle and as a general aviation aeroplane.

Efficient foil-type kites such as power kites can also be used to sail upwind under the same principles as used by other sailing craft, provided that lateral forces on the ground or in the water are redirected as with the keels, center boards, wheels and ice blades of traditional sailing craft.

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

Some hydropower systems such as water wheels can draw power from the flow of a body of water without necessarily changing its height.

Over-shot water wheels can efficiently capture both types of energy.

They are immune to common corrosion, and can only be sharpened on silicon carbide sandpaper and some grinding wheels.

Discussion with workshops producing carts suggest the main problem is obtaining suitable wheels and axles, as well as other raw materials, that can be afforded by their clients.

Some types of anti-personnel mines can also damage the tracks or wheels of armored vehicles.

The smallest Pelton wheels are only a few inches across, and can be used to tap power from mountain streams having flows of a few gallons per minute.

Passersby can turn the entire row of wheels simply by sliding their hands over each one.

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

A pair of wheels may be called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready-built " off the shelf ", performance-oriented wheels.

Of note, the machines had removable front skis that could be replaced with front wheels for use on paved or hard surfaces, thus providing greater utility to his large snowmobiles.

On a steam locomotive, the leading wheels and trailing wheels may be mounted on bogies.

Clutches are used whenever the transmission of power or motion needs to be controlled either in amount or over time ( e. g., electric screwdrivers limit how much torque is transmitted through use of a clutch ; clutches control whether automobiles transmit engine power to the wheels ).

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

In July 592 BCE, at the age of 30, Ezekiel describes his calling to be a prophet, by going into great detail about his encounter with God who rode upon a chariot of four wheels guided by Cherubs.

The wheels and propeller are to be powered by the same engine, but wheel-power only to be utilized on the ground.

As is the case with any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine, diesel locomotives require some type of power transmission system to couple the output of the prime mover to the driving wheels.

Power at the drive wheels is equal to engine power less mechanical losses regardless of any gearing between the engine and drive wheels.

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.

a mechanized army on wheels that rolls over any obstacle in its path.

The term ' AWD ', or all-wheel drive, is used for any vehicle which drives on all four wheels, but may not be designed for off-road use.

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.

This system is also easy to identify, as there are no individual speed sensors for any of the wheels.

The choice of overlapping / interleaved road wheels allowed the use of slightly more torsion bar suspension members, allowing any German tracked military vehicle with such a setup to have a noticeably smoother ride over challenging terrain, but at the expense of mud and ice collecting between the overlapping areas of the road wheels, and freezing solid in cold weather conditions, often immobilizing the vehicle so equipped.

Laziness and incompetence are themselves teachable faults to some degree, which means that a superior has a responsibility " to help the asker to learn to help himself ", even if it takes time and various attempts ; but at some point, a line may be crossed, where fairness to others ( and duty to other obligations ) precludes any further " hand holding " or " training wheels ".

“ Prisoners are roused from bed at 5: 30 am, and at 6: 00 the zhiban from the kitchen wheels in a cart with tubs of corn gruel and cornbread … at 7: 00 the company public security cadre ( captain ) comes in, gathers all the prisoners together, and authorizes any sick prisoners to remain in the barracks.

On cars and trucks, several senses of the word " Tandem axle " co-occur in casual usage, referring to the shaft itself, its housing, or simply any transverse pair of wheels.

The axle shafts themselves do not carry any weight ; they serve only to transmit torque from the differential to the wheels.

He had a car and rubber wheels beat rubber heels any day.

In Thailand, any three-wheeler is called samlor (, which literally means " three wheels "), whether motorized or not, including pedicabs, motorcycles with attached vending carts or sidecars, etc.

Shopping carts are usually fitted with four wheels, however if any one wheel jams the cart can become difficult to handle.

It is widely thought that a differential mechanism responded to any difference between the speeds of rotation of the two wheels of the chariot, and turned the pointer appropriately.

With perfect Ackermann, at any angle of steering, the centre point of all of the circles traced by all wheels will lie at a common point.

* Institute of Advanced Burnouts, ( IAB ) A non profit organisation specialising in research and development of safer methods to produce a controlled loss of traction in any vehicle or object with wheels

In the Delta HF 4X4, Lancia opted for a four-wheel drive system with an in-built torque-splitting action to ensure that the available power was going to the wheels with the most traction at any given time, thus ensuring the most efficient use of the available power and torque.

Feed wheels added to the Grip-Tite base pull ripped wood to the fence, allowing the operator to rip wood on any table saw with no hands near the blade.

Given the lack of any variable-ratio transmission between the piston engine and the wheels, the designer is forced to compromise between desired torque and desired maximum speed ; the radius of the driving wheels determines this.