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  • Thumbnail for Pulley
    A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself...
    16 KB (1,975 words) - 03:37, 6 May 2024
  • fore-arm sections consist of a parallelogram with a diagonal iso-elastic cable-pulley-spring system. The iso-elastic system is tensioned to counteract the...
    4 KB (665 words) - 15:40, 2 October 2019
  • Thumbnail for Cable machine
    via a cable and pulley system to one or more handles. The cables that connect the handles to the weight stacks run through adjustable pulleys that can...
    2 KB (196 words) - 14:46, 13 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pull-down (exercise)
    and extension of the shoulder joint. The cable lat pull-down is done where the handle is moved via a cable pulley, as opposed to doing pull-downs on a leverage...
    9 KB (1,122 words) - 20:29, 28 August 2023
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    trains) permanently attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable, which is looped over a pulley at the upper end of the track. The result of such a configuration...
    27 KB (3,104 words) - 06:41, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Block and tackle
    is a system of two or more pulleys with a rope or cable threaded between them, usually used to lift heavy loads. The pulleys are assembled to form blocks...
    16 KB (2,226 words) - 16:46, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cable transport
    of pulleys and balancing of loads moving up and down are common elements of cable transport. They are often used in mountainous areas where cable haulage...
    24 KB (2,455 words) - 14:56, 27 January 2024
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    Zip line (redirect from Zip cable)
    zip-line, zip line, zip-wire, flying fox, or death slide is a pulley suspended on a cable, usually made of stainless steel, mounted on a slope. It is designed...
    24 KB (2,471 words) - 07:48, 27 April 2024
  • leg and moves away from the wall etc. Alternatively an unfixed sled or cable pulley machine can be used to provide resistance against which the person pushes...
    5 KB (648 words) - 09:44, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Etch A Sketch
    pulleys, six cables, two rails, and a stylus. Pulley 1 (single-groove) connects to pulley 2 (triple-groove) via a short infinite reciprocating cable....
    16 KB (1,609 words) - 13:17, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anthony Curcio
    using a jet ski for the getaway, he changed his approach and created a cable pulley system to quickly pull himself, and large bags of cash, upstream using...
    16 KB (1,857 words) - 16:10, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tail lift
    lifting platform or a single hydraulic cylinder using some version of a cable-pulley system. Railgate lifts are very similar in design to Column Lifts but...
    5 KB (740 words) - 16:10, 2 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cable car (railway)
    haulage cable that the cars gripped using a cable car gripper, and a balance cable permanently attached to both cars over an undriven pulley at the top...
    24 KB (2,865 words) - 15:45, 7 May 2024
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    kilograms (47.5 lb) of lunar surface material to the LM hatch using a flat cable pulley device called the Lunar Equipment Conveyor (LEC). This proved to be an...
    184 KB (19,451 words) - 12:30, 5 May 2024
  • Bicep curl (redirect from Cable Curl)
    high cable curl: Lie prone on a bench that is under a cable machine with pulley at the highest level. Grasp a bar that is attached to the pulley with...
    15 KB (1,794 words) - 19:39, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Conveyor belt
    the belt forward. The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley is called the idler pulley. There are two main industrial...
    23 KB (2,820 words) - 11:08, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arresting gear
    These early systems had cables run through pulleys and attached to dead weights, such as sandbags. More modern arresting cables were tested on HMS Courageous...
    22 KB (2,894 words) - 22:32, 26 May 2024
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    kilograms (47.5 lb) of lunar surface material to the hatch using a flat cable pulley device. Armstrong reminded Aldrin of a bag of memorial items in his sleeve...
    119 KB (12,323 words) - 08:34, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capstan (nautical)
    French capestan or cabestan(t), from Old Provençal cabestan, from capestre "pulley cord," from Latin capistrum, -a halter, from capere, to take hold of, seems...
    7 KB (714 words) - 11:49, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aircraft flight control system
    system uses a collection of mechanical parts such as pushrods, tension cables, pulleys, counterweights, and sometimes chains to transmit the forces applied...
    22 KB (2,621 words) - 02:02, 15 March 2024
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