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It featured wire wheels ( unlike carriages ' wooden ones ) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator.
The company's entry into the vehicle market was by means of crinoline dresses, which used steel rods, leading to umbrella frames, saw blades, wire wheels, and ultimately bicycles.
Most MUs are powered either by traction motors, receiving their power through a live rail or overhead wire ( EMU ), or by a diesel engine driving the wheels through a gearbox or hydraulic transmission ( DMU ).
Over the years, its industries have included the making of cigars, gloves, silks, flavine, water wheels, flour, shirts, shoes, machine-shop products, furniture, wire cloth, and ironstone grinders.
The spoked wheel was in continued use without major modification until the 1870s, when wire wheels and rubber tires were invented.
The company's last race win was a four-cylinder at the 1908 Tourist Trophy under an alias, Hutton, to preserve the reputation of the sixes, in the hands of Willy Watson, while at the French Grand Prix, officials showed the perverse reasoning for which they became notorious, claiming removable wire wheels were an unfair advantage.
It was found that the works included a ' slitting mill ', for making wire nails and a rolling mill powered by water wheels.
The price included wire wheels and a luxurious interior with comprehensive instrumentation.
Other modifications included replacing the wire wheels with wider steel wheels as standard, and the fitting of a higher-ratio rear axle ( 3. 58: 1 instead of 3. 875: 1 ).
The landing gear / undercarriage on control line aircraft can vary from rudimentary music wire and wheels to competition models with spring-loaded shock absorption and wheel pants.
The Sports Roadster included 48-spoke Kelsey Hayes-designed wire wheels and a special fiberglass tonneau cover for the rear seats which gave the car the appearance of a two-seat roadster like the original Thunderbird.
When a customer went to buy the wire wheels, the make of the vehicle would be stamped in the center.
In the 1927 to 1928 time, the first snap-on center caps were being made on the wire wheels.
After 1932, most every car had a snap-on style center cap on the middle of their wire, steel or wood wheels.
This configuration differs from the " knock-off " spinners found on some racing cars and cars equipped with true wire wheels.
1993 marked the final year for optional woodgrain and wire wheels on higher level models.
Front disc brakes were also introduced at the same time and wire wheels became an option.
The wheels of the 1953 Skylark were true wire wheels, produced by Kelsey-Hayes, with everything chromed except the plated and painted " Skylark " center emblem.
It featured a full assortment of deluxe accessories, including wire wheels, and introduced the wraparound windshield and a cut-down beltline to Cadillac standard production, the latter signifying a dip in the sheetmetal at the bottom of the side windows.
Also included in the production Eldorado convertible were monogram plates on the doors, wire wheels, and custom interior trimmings with the Cadillac crest embossed on the seat bolsters.
Either wire wheels or disc wheels could be specified.

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We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Oersted's own earlier experiments were unimpressive, possibly because he had, like other experimenters, laid the conducting wire across the compass needle instead of parallel with it.
Changes of intensity on the cell were achieved by use of a wire screen and by varying the distance of the light source from the cell.
The fence, his only refuge when the metal death came roaring at him, was made of rails, all right, but the rails were protected by a thick screening of barbed wire that would rip his flesh if he pressed against it.
( Older models have another 4-bead wire for quarter-kopeks, which were minted until 1916.
Sensitivity of the instrument was increased by using additional turns of wire to multiply the effect – the instruments were called " multipliers ".
Early computer buses were bundles of wire that attached computer memory and peripherals.
Links were either butted together meaning that the ends touched each other and were not riveted, or the kusari was constructed with links where the wire was turned or twisted two or more times, these split links are similar to the modern split ring commonly used on keychains.
Cordwood construction and wire wraps were other methods used.
The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse's, and each camera shutter was controlled by a trip wire which was triggered by the horse's hooves.
The wires used to control the puppets were eight feet long and made of tungsten, an improvement on the curtain wire used in the two earlier series, and were only 1 / 200 of an inch thick.
The 9 / 11 Commission Report has since confirmed that the bulk of the funds used to finance the assault were not sent through the hawala system, but rather by an official inter-bank wire transfer to a SunTrust Bank in Florida, where two of the conspirators had opened a personal account.
Whilst these works were usually collages incorporating found objects, such as bus tickets, old wire and fragments of newsprint, Merz also included artist's periodicals, sculptures, sound poems and what would later be called " installations ".
It used wire wrap circuit boards whose only logic elements were three-input NOR gates.
However the British were able to render their systems useless by jamming their radios, and missiles with wire guidance were not ready by D-Day.
However these had a limited useful range of a 100 m or so, and the Germans were looking to extend this with the use of a missile using wire guidance, the X-7.
They were unable to traverse a battlefield obstructed by craters, barbed wire and trenches.
Two telephone wires were placed parallel to the line of fortifications, providing redundancy in the event of a wire getting cut.
Machines and processes that had been used to manufacture cut nails were adapted to work with coils of round steel wire.
In 1913, 90 % of manufactured nails were wire nails.

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