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  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Chinese Farm
    October 17, the pontoon bridge had been fully assembled, opening the first Israeli bridge across the canal. The roller bridge was laid soon after at dawn...
    49 KB (7,048 words) - 15:18, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roller derby
    Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues...
    73 KB (6,940 words) - 12:32, 24 September 2024
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    the roller bearing. Another type of mechanical bearing is the fixed bearing, which allows rotation, but not other forms of movement. The first bridge bearings...
    5 KB (718 words) - 13:51, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gretsch White Falcon
    humbuckers in 1958, and that same year the Melita bridge was replaced with a Space Control bridge — the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece was standard starting...
    8 KB (840 words) - 15:22, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Swarm (roller coaster)
    Stealth roller coaster, with parts of the ride being built over water. A bridge links the core of Thorpe Park to an island which hosts the roller coaster...
    22 KB (2,112 words) - 11:51, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clifton Suspension Bridge
    shafts and tunnels. Roller-mounted "saddles" at the top of each tower allow movement of the chains when loads pass over the bridge. Though their total...
    52 KB (4,781 words) - 16:29, 17 September 2024
  • tailpiece, earlier version of Maestro Vibrola (or Epiphone Tremotone) using roller bridge (U.S. patent 3,124,991 filed in 1961, issued in 1964), and several in-house...
    67 KB (7,703 words) - 19:47, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bigsby vibrato tailpiece
    Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (category Guitar bridges)
    installed on the top of the guitar and includes a 'rocking bridge', not a 'roller bridge'. The lever arm of the Bigsby is spring-loaded and attached...
    5 KB (504 words) - 20:16, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fire in the Hole (2024 roller coaster)
    the Hole is an enclosed steel roller coaster located at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The five story steel roller coaster was built in collaboration...
    7 KB (777 words) - 17:06, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Big Bad Wolf (roller coaster)
    Wolf was a suspended roller coaster in the Oktoberfest section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Designed by Arrow Dynamics, the roller coaster opened to the...
    11 KB (1,432 words) - 18:19, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Univox Hi-Flier
    hardtail Gibson-style stop-bar bridge/tailpiece replace the former Fender Jazzmaster-style separate vibrato and roller bridge setup. In 1980, Univox discontinued...
    9 KB (1,260 words) - 23:22, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iron Gwazi
    Iron Gwazi (formerly called Gwazi) is a steel-track hybrid roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, a theme park in Tampa, Florida, United States. Development...
    81 KB (6,606 words) - 20:50, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mr. Freeze (roller coaster)
    Mr. Freeze is a launched shuttle roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas, with another installation known as Mr. Freeze: Reverse...
    21 KB (2,341 words) - 22:32, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tacony–Palmyra Bridge
    and became stuck in the open position when a roller under the maintenance walkway seized, closing the bridge for approximately eleven hours. In 2016, work...
    7 KB (429 words) - 02:24, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oblivion (roller coaster)
    Oblivion is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. The prototype Dive Coaster model from Bolliger & Mabillard opened...
    14 KB (1,283 words) - 11:20, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Military engineering vehicle
    equipped with 2 ton rollers. Between the wars various experimental bridging tanks were used to test a series of methods for bridging obstacles and developed...
    34 KB (4,099 words) - 04:45, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Medium Girder Bridge
    three roller beams when constructing a double-story bridge over 12 bays long. The ends of the roller beams are supported on base plates and each can be...
    14 KB (1,908 words) - 17:27, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
    The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (Japanese: 明石海峡大橋, Hepburn: Akashi Kaikyō Ōhashi) is a suspension bridge which links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island...
    16 KB (1,500 words) - 14:55, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
    colorful descriptions of the unique structure, deeming it "the first roller-coaster bridge" and citing that "steep approaches, stupendous height, extremely...
    19 KB (2,167 words) - 17:21, 2 September 2024
  • The World Skate Roller Hockey World Cup is the international championship for roller hockey organized by World Skate. The first event was held in 1936...
    20 KB (417 words) - 19:33, 22 September 2024
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