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  • Thumbnail for Pulley
    Pulley (redirect from Pulley wheel)
    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) - 17:16, 23 June 2024
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    tiller rope/ chain slots at the top of the platform before connecting to two sheaves just below deck (one on either side of the ship's wheel) and thence...
    7 KB (842 words) - 01:58, 4 August 2024
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    Dreadnaught wheel, Driving wheel, Flywheel, Hubless wheel, Inline skate wheel, Mansell wheel, Mecanum wheel, Motorcycle wheel, Omni wheel, Pedrail wheel, Pressed...
    44 KB (4,801 words) - 18:00, 29 July 2024
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    acrobatic, aerobic, and parkour. Disciplines not recognized by FIG include wheel gymnastics, aesthetic group gymnastics, TeamGym, and mallakhamba. Participants...
    65 KB (7,693 words) - 20:39, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zorawar Singh (jump-rope athlete)
    September 2020, Zorawar came into the news for performing ‘pyramid Wheel Freestyle Jump Rope’ with 3 of his friends. Zorawar has participated in several Indian...
    3 KB (257 words) - 05:59, 29 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Roper steam velocipede
    The Roper steam velocipede was a steam-powered velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, United States sometime...
    27 KB (2,786 words) - 09:46, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wheel chock
    of removal, a rope may be tied to the chock or a set of two chocks. One edge of the wedge has a concave profile to contour to the wheel and increase the...
    4 KB (565 words) - 03:03, 8 July 2024
  • (usually) add tension to a chain, rope or cable which is then fed into the groove of another wheel, toothed wheel, cog or sprocket; a (frequently) retractable...
    3 KB (379 words) - 15:44, 22 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bucket-wheel excavator
    amount of material. Bucket wheel excavators and bucket chain excavators take jobs that were previously accomplished by rope shovels and draglines. They...
    13 KB (1,709 words) - 15:28, 24 June 2023
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    Mooring (redirect from Mooring rope)
    wire rope for one or more of their mooring lines. Wire rope is hard to handle and maintain. There is also risk associated with using wire rope on a ship's...
    21 KB (2,459 words) - 11:49, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of BDSM equipment
    hook Padlock Penis plug Plastic wrap Posture collar Pussy or vaginal hook Rope Shackles Sleepsacks Speculum Spreader bar Stocks Straitjackets A-frame Ankle/wrist...
    7 KB (391 words) - 17:26, 28 December 2023
  • Trampolining Trapeze Trick riding Trick roping Tumbling Twirling Unicycle Ventriloquism Voltige Wall of death Wheel of Death Whistling Bed of nails Bee bearding...
    5 KB (396 words) - 02:12, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rope pump
    pieces of bicycle wheel tubing. The valves are positioned approximately 20 cm apart on the rope. One disadvantage of flexible valve rope pumps is that they...
    7 KB (832 words) - 12:59, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anchor windlass
    raised and lowered by means of chain cable. A notched wheel engages the links of the chain or the rope. A trawl windlass is a similar machine that restrains...
    8 KB (1,096 words) - 00:57, 8 April 2024
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    Corde lisse (redirect from Aerial rope)
    vertically hanging rope. The name is French for "smooth rope". In English-speaking parts of the world, it is also referred to as "aerial rope". Corde lisse...
    3 KB (414 words) - 14:01, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bullwheel
    A bullwheel or bull wheel is a large wheel on which a rope turns, such as in a chairlift or other ropeway. In this application, the bullwheel that is attached...
    3 KB (244 words) - 08:49, 12 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Paddle steamer
    water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans...
    62 KB (7,395 words) - 22:22, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inca rope bridge
    Inca rope bridges are simple suspension bridges over canyons, gorges and rivers (pongos) constructed by the Inca Empire. The bridges were an integral part...
    9 KB (882 words) - 19:35, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Worm drive
    Worm drive (redirect from Worm wheel)
    which a worm (which is a gear in the form of a screw) meshes with a worm wheel (which is similar in appearance to a spur gear). The two elements are also...
    15 KB (1,851 words) - 22:48, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Block and tackle
    block and tackle or only 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...
    16 KB (2,211 words) - 16:40, 1 August 2024
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