horizontal-shaft turbine
51Submarine — For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). A Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Oyashio class submarine in 2006 A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which… …
52RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 — ( QE2 ) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS|Queen Elizabeth, which in turn was named after Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the Queen consort of George VI. She was the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded by… …
53British Rail 18100 — Infobox Locomotive name = British Rail 18100 powertype = Gas turbine electric caption = builder = Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park ordernumber = GWR Lot 388 builddate = 1951 primemover = transmission = DC generators DC traction motors uicclass …
54helicopter — /hel i kop teuhr, hee li /, n. 1. any of a class of heavier than air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine. v.i. 2. to fly in a… …
55Fourneyron, Benoît — born Oct. 31, 1802, Saint Étienne, France died July 31, 1867, Paris French inventor of the water turbine. He first built a small, 6 horsepower unit in which water was directed outward from a central source onto blades or vanes set at angles in a… …
56Western architecture — Introduction history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …
57Panemone — A panemone is a type of wind turbine. It is characterised by the fact that the rotating axis is positioned at 90 degrees to the direction of the wind, while the wind catching blades move parallel to the wind. By contrast, the shaft of a propeller …
58United Airlines Flight 232 — N1819U on its final descent, with visible damage on the horizontal stabilizer and fuselage tail cone Accident summary Date …
59Stirling engine — Alpha type Stirling engine. There are two cylinders. The expansion cylinder (red) is maintained at a high temperature while the compression cylinder (blue) is cooled. The passage between the two cylinders contains the regenerator …
60Rambler Marlin — The Marlin can claim to be the first mid sized fastback car made in the United States during the sixties. Built by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1965 to 1967, it was a halo car for the company. It had an exceptional array of standard… …
