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  • and "D" to four powered axles in a row. "1" refers to one idler axle, and "2" to two idler axles in a row. A dash ("–") separates trucks or wheel assemblies...
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    Flatcar (redirect from Idler flatcar)
    between the locomotive on the dock and the cars on the ferry or barge. Idler flatcars are also used in oversize freight service, as loads such as pipe...
    15 KB (1,588 words) - 01:22, 5 July 2024
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    called an idler gear. Sometimes, a single idler gear is used to reverse the direction, in which case it may be referred to as a reverse idler. For instance...
    32 KB (4,790 words) - 06:36, 19 April 2024
  • The Idler is a bi-monthly magazine, devoted to its ethos of 'idling'. Founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, the publication's intention...
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    Best Pop Vocal Album. In 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel..., which received critical praise and was followed by a tour of the...
    57 KB (5,208 words) - 11:44, 15 July 2024
  • beyond the path split, the idler photons encounter beam splitters BSa, BSb, and BSc that each have a 50% chance of allowing the idler photon to pass through...
    44 KB (5,623 words) - 23:16, 6 June 2024
  • The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, frequently abridged as The Idler Wheel...
    47 KB (3,952 words) - 06:18, 14 July 2024
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    Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer and the editor of The Idler magazine, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney...
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  • The Red Room (short story) (category Works originally published in The Idler (1892–1911))
    Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. A main character chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted...
    3 KB (302 words) - 09:35, 27 July 2023
  • A Story of the Stone Age (category Works originally published in The Idler (1892–1911))
    The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions. The story is set...
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    The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the...
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    pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley is called the idler pulley. There are two main industrial classes of belt conveyors; Those in...
    23 KB (2,820 words) - 18:27, 6 July 2024
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    For cranes with a jib that extends beyond the length of the chassis, an idler car (also known as a 'jib carrier' (UK) or 'boom car' (North America)) is...
    12 KB (1,446 words) - 11:23, 29 April 2024
  • Look up idler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Idler refers to someone or something idle: An idle game A slacker, a person who habitually avoids work...
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  • An idler-wheel is a wheel which serves only to transmit rotation from one shaft to another, in applications where it is undesirable to connect them directly...
    11 KB (1,838 words) - 11:10, 3 April 2024
  • association with UK quarterly The Idler; in which towns in the United Kingdom were nominated by visitors to The Idler website for their "crapness", with...
    7 KB (638 words) - 20:46, 2 November 2023
  • The Ship that Found Herself (category Works originally published in The Idler (1892–1911))
    Found Herself" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling, first published in The Idler in 1895. It was collected with other Kipling stories in The Day's Work (1898)...
    4 KB (518 words) - 10:16, 17 July 2022
  • writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of The Idler and in 1896 in his poetry collection The Seven Seas. The poem is the source...
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    The Idler was a 19th-century schooner-yacht built in 1864 by Samuel Hartt Pook from Fairhaven, Connecticut, and owned by yachtsman Thomas C. Durant. She...
    12 KB (1,109 words) - 17:15, 25 August 2023
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    For historical reasons, the two output waves are called "signal" and "idler", where the output wave with higher frequency is the "signal". A special...
    15 KB (1,921 words) - 16:37, 8 July 2024
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