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  • Thumbnail for Bicycle brake
    spoon brake on a Chinese cargo tricycle Invented in 1897, the Duck brake or Duck roller brake used a rod operated by a lever on the handlebar to pull twin...
    84 KB (11,359 words) - 14:46, 14 May 2024
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    Parking brakes often consist of a pulling mechanism attached to a cable which is connected to two wheel brakes. In most vehicles, the parking brake operates...
    18 KB (2,262 words) - 16:05, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anti-lock braking system
    preventing the wheels from locking up during braking, thereby maintaining tractive contact with the road surface and allowing the driver to maintain more...
    61 KB (7,493 words) - 17:32, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Disc brake
    A disc brake is a type of brake that uses the calipers to squeeze pairs of pads against a disc or a rotor to create friction. There are two basic types...
    68 KB (8,997 words) - 21:01, 9 May 2024
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    undercarriage as an air brake. Friction brakes on automobiles store braking heat in the drum brake or disc brake while braking then conduct it to the air gradually...
    21 KB (2,690 words) - 10:45, 15 March 2024
  • bound to the surface that faces the disc brake rotors. Brake pads convert the kinetic energy of a vehicle to thermal energy through friction. Two brake pads...
    17 KB (2,171 words) - 18:14, 14 March 2024
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    brake is a brake that uses friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that press outward against a rotating bowl-shaped part called a brake drum. The term...
    28 KB (4,139 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck
    1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck (category Train collisions in the United States)
    legislator (never identified) decided to pull the emergency brake. A coroner's jury later blamed the crash primarily on the express train's conductor and rear...
    46 KB (6,325 words) - 19:06, 22 May 2024
  • the trailer slides the mechanism, this in turn uses the travel of this mechanism to pull on the brake rod which applies the brakes. The sliding mechanism...
    4 KB (654 words) - 20:56, 17 March 2023
  • types of braking methods employed on roller coasters, including friction brakes, skid brakes, and magnetic brakes. The most common is a fin brake, an alternative...
    9 KB (1,264 words) - 15:11, 14 May 2024
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    Further, the hill-hold function, which applies brakes to prevent roll-back when pulling away on a gradient, can also be implemented using the EPB. The implementation...
    4 KB (409 words) - 22:32, 14 April 2024
  • Shimano (category Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange)
    (high-end), and Adamas in the low-end. Features of these components include aerodynamic styling, center-pull brakes, brake levers with concealed cables...
    46 KB (2,630 words) - 08:46, 13 April 2024
  • vacuum assistance to multiply the pressure applied to the brake pedal by the driver into enough force to actuate the brakes and stop the vehicle. By contrast...
    5 KB (745 words) - 21:39, 13 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dynamic braking
    pulling trains with sufficient head-end power (HEP) loads, braking energy can be used to power the train's on board systems via regenerative braking if...
    12 KB (1,386 words) - 03:00, 10 February 2024
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    Brake linings are the consumable surfaces in brake systems, such as drum brakes and disc brakes used in transport vehicles. Brake linings were invented...
    8 KB (1,018 words) - 09:12, 23 October 2023
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    drivers, as pulling the brake with too little or too much force will not lock the wheels correctly to allow the vehicle to negotiate the corner correctly...
    6 KB (787 words) - 14:44, 19 July 2023
  • pulleys at the front to enable the cables to be routed so as to pull the brake levers (which were behind and below the axle) forward, the M.G. M Type...
    5 KB (764 words) - 19:42, 28 August 2023
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    Brake van and guard's van are terms used mainly in the UK, Ireland, Australia and India for a railway vehicle equipped with a hand brake which can be applied...
    22 KB (3,217 words) - 01:13, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emergency brake (train)
    trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings: The maximum brake force available to the engine driver from the conventional braking system...
    27 KB (3,872 words) - 12:36, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Driving Brake Standard Open
    A Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO) is a type of railway carriage in Great Britain, converted to operate as a control car; this is not to be confused...
    12 KB (949 words) - 07:56, 13 February 2024
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