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They were powered by steam engines and had a maximum speed of 20 to 30 knots ( 37 to 56 km / h ).
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They may be powered by direct current ( for example a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle ), or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid.
They are also used on electric powered wheelchairs for control since they are simple and effective to use as a control method.
They include any type of pump powered by a steam engine and also pistonless pumps such as Thomas Savery's, the Pulsometer steam pump or the Steam injection pump.
They were riding fast two-wheeled chariots powered by horses, a system of weaponry developed earlier within the context of plains warfare.
They were joined in 1958 by two purpose built Regulus submarines, USS Grayback, USS Growler, and, later, by the nuclear powered USS Halibut.
They developed engines powered by aniline and nitric acid .. Robert Goddard, Reaction Motors and Curtiss-Wright worked on aniline / nitric acid engines in the early 1940s, for small missiles and jet assisted take-off ( JATO ).
They may be powered by direct current, e. g., a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle, or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid or inverter.
They were used to cut smaller wood into firewood in an era when hand powered saws were the only other option.
They were then drawn from the river with skidding tongs and a wire cable, drawn by a steam powered crosscut saw.
They were initially powered by the unusual Dolter stud-contact electrification so as not to disfigure the town with overhead wires, but in 1911 was converted to more conventional overhead-line supply.
Airmen like Otto Lilienthal, who introduced cambered airfoils in 1891, used gliders to analyze aerodynamic forces. The Wright brothers were interested in Lilianthal's work and read several of his publications. They also found inspiration in Octave Chanute, an airman and the author of Progress in Flying Machines ( 1894 ). It was the preliminary work of Cayley, Lilienthal, Chanute, and other early aerospace engineers that brought about the first powered sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903, by the Wright brothers.
They are typically made of a thick strong PVC or vinyl and nylon, and are inflated using an electric or gasoline powered blower.
They are an effective fishing vessel because, when powered by a skilled man, they hardly disturb the water or the fish, and they can be easily manoeuvred with one arm, while the other arm tends to the net ; two coracles to a net.
They used boats built in Greek style powered by charcoal-fuelled steam engines, later replaced with diesel.
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