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51Connecting rod — piston (top) and connecting rod from typical automotive engine (scale is in centimetres) In a reciprocating piston engine, the connecting rod or conrod connects the piston to the crank or crankshaft. Together with the crank, they form a simple… …
52Compound engine — For compound steam locomotives, see Compound locomotive. Cutaway of triple expansion compound steam engine, 1888 …
53Wheelie — In vehicle acrobatics, a wheelie is a trick where the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to an excessive amount of torque being powered to the rear wheel or wheels. Wheelies are usually associated with motorbikes.Bicycle wheelieTo… …
54Gemma Augustea — The Gemma Augustea (Latin, Gem of Augustus) is a low relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double layered[ambiguous] Ar …
55Carver (automobile) — The Carver is a tilting three wheeled vehicle using an automatic balancing technology to balance the passenger compartment under all conditions. Its first commercial product, the Carver One, seats two people, and is manufactured and distributed… …
56Center of percussion — The center of percussion is the point on an object where a perpendicular impact will produce translational and rotational forces which perfectly cancel each other out at some given pivot point, so that the pivot will not be moving momentarily… …
57Airwork Flight 23 — Infobox Airliner accident name = Airwork Flight 23 Date = May 3 2005 Type = Pilot error Site = Stratford, New Zealand Fatalities = 2 Injuries = 0 Aircraft Type = Swearingen SA.227AC Metro III Operator = Airwork Tail Number = ZK POA Passengers = 0 …
58balancé — /bal euhn say /; Fr. /bann lahonn say /, n., pl. balancés / sayz /; Fr. / say /. Ballet. a swaying step performed in place in which the weight is lightly shifted from one foot to the other, the dancer sinking down on the heel of the foot to which …
59aerodynamic balance — i. A means of reducing the hinge movement and thereby the physical effort needed to control an aircraft. If control surfaces were hinged at their leading edge and allowed to trail from this position in flight, the forces required to change the… …
60Engine — This article is about a machine to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. For other uses of engine, see Engine (disambiguation). For other uses of motor, see Motor (disambiguation). A V6 internal combustion engine from a Mercedes car An… …
