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shutting a portion of the exhaust steam inside the cylinder. This determines the compression phase where a cushion of steam is formed against which the piston...78 KB (9,740 words) - 11:47, 30 August 2024
amount of steam introduced to cushion the blow. A modern air/steam hammer can deliver up to 300 blows per minute. The possibility of a steam hammer was...27 KB (3,343 words) - 18:05, 15 July 2024
of valve used to control the flow of steam within a steam engine or locomotive. They control the admission of steam into the cylinders and its subsequent...8 KB (1,049 words) - 10:28, 30 June 2022
Water hammer (redirect from Steam hammer (pressure surge))restriction. Steam hammer can occur in steam systems when some of the steam condenses into water in a horizontal section of the piping. The steam forcing the...35 KB (4,362 words) - 08:34, 29 August 2024
Kirov-class battlecruiser (redirect from Combined nuclear and steam propulsion)Cross Sword for Kinzhal (Kinzhal-equipped units only) Combined nuclear and steam propulsion system (CONAS) is used on the Kirov battlecruisers. Complementary...31 KB (2,157 words) - 09:03, 18 August 2024- Compression (physics) (section Steam engines)quite complete. This steam being compressed as the stroke is completed, a cushion is formed against which the piston does work while its velocity is being...8 KB (982 words) - 04:22, 26 February 2024
hovering above the ground eliminates the need for tires, and unlike an air-cushion vehicle, it does not produce a dust cloud. The closest devices are the...9 KB (889 words) - 13:40, 28 August 2024- Aircraft carrier Anti-submarine warfare carrier Helicopter carrier Air-cushioned landing craft Amphibious assault ship Battlecruiser Battleship Pocket...2 KB (145 words) - 23:39, 21 May 2024
clockwork-driven carriage. In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created; the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation...79 KB (8,884 words) - 01:05, 22 August 2024
Robert William Thomson (category Steam road vehicles)belt of India-rubber inflated with air so that the wheels presented "a cushion of air to the ground, rail or track on which they run". This elastic belt...7 KB (783 words) - 18:06, 18 July 2024- came to work at the British Steam Brush Works, in the East End of London. In 1885 he invented the "pneumatic" rubber-cushion hairbrush which became the...1 KB (140 words) - 07:48, 15 August 2024
allow for the operation of AV-8B Harrier II aircraft and Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) hovercraft, making the Wasp class the first ships specifically designed...19 KB (1,433 words) - 10:07, 3 August 2024
space above the liquid coolant is vaporized coolant (steam). This steam bubble provides a cushion for pressure changes in the reactor coolant system and...6 KB (920 words) - 14:20, 21 June 2024
Pulsometer pump (redirect from Pulsometer steam pump)ahead of the water and forms an elastic cushion to prevent the water from striking violently against the steam ball. The air chamber is for the purpose...6 KB (731 words) - 12:42, 1 April 2022
on the damp runway surface evaporated to steam, effectively causing the tires to float on a cushion of steam over the runway surface, greatly reducing...23 KB (3,193 words) - 17:46, 14 June 2024
Railway speed record (section Steam)rail vehicles while the wheels are rolling along the track. Using an air cushion and a monorail, the Aérotrain set on 5 March 1974 a mean speed of 417.6 km/h...83 KB (2,848 words) - 16:13, 24 August 2024
Continuous track (section Heathcote's Steam Plough)vehicles road wheels are typically mounted on some form of suspension to cushion the ride over rough ground. Suspension design in military vehicles is a...51 KB (6,102 words) - 06:17, 16 August 2024
and crew survived. The flows had moved across the water on a cushion of superheated steam. There are also indications of submarine pyroclastic flows reaching...44 KB (5,183 words) - 21:27, 2 September 2024
pressboard) is a type of hardboard (a kind of engineered wood) made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fibers in a process patented by William...8 KB (913 words) - 14:06, 25 February 2024- gearbox replaced with a refurbished part and painted in olive drab, all seat cushions replaced with new ones, missing manually operated period windscreen wipers...306 KB (768 words) - 06:55, 1 August 2024
- Volume 25 Steam Engine by James Alfred Ewing 24509781911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 25 — Steam EngineJames Alfred Ewing STEAM ENGINE, 1. A steam engine
- sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), p. 60. If I could be a vegetable,
- other's waists and walk around the room. You can add obstacles such as a cushion on the floor for them to avoid. They mustn't let go or the train will be