capacitor-run motor
51All American Five — The All American Five was a mass produced, superheterodyne radio receiver with five vacuum tubes first designed and produced in the USA in the 1930s.The radio was called the All American Five because the design represented the majority of radios… …
52Connecting 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… …
53Controllable pitch propeller — A controllable pitch propeller (CPP) or variable pitch propeller is a type of propeller with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change their pitch. If the pitch can be set to negative values, the reversible propeller can also… …
54TXE — TXE, which stands for Telephone eXchange Electronic, was the designation given to a family of telephone exchanges developed by the British General Post Office (GPO), now BT, designed to replace the ageing Strowger systems. When World War II ended …
55Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
56Control of the National Grid — The National Grid is the high voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and has a synchronized organization such that electricity generated anywhere in Great Britain can be used …
57Carbon nanotube — Not to be confused with Carbon fiber. Part of a series of articles on Nanomaterials Fullerenes …
58Valve amplifier — A valve amplifier or tube amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that make use of vacuum tubes instead of solid state semiconductor devices (such as transistors). As any other electronic amplifier they serve to increase the power and/or… …
59Gnome Monosoupape — Monosoupape A 1917 Gnome 9N 160 hp Monosoupape rotary engine Type Rotary a …
60Hybrid drive — A hybrid drive or Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD) is a type of large buffer computer hard disk drive. It is different from standard hard drives in that it uses a smaller solid state drive (SSD) as a cache. The cache typically uses non volatile flash… …
