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Established in 1898, the Empire State Motor Wagon Company in Catskill, New York was one of the first American used car lots. [3]The used vehicle market is substantially larger than other large retail sectors, such as the school and office products market (US$206 billion in estimated annual sales) and the home improvement market (US$291 billion in estimated annual sales).
Used as a trash burner at Carcross, Yukon from 1920 to 1931. In 1931 the locomotive was put on display at the WP&YR depot in Carcros, Yukon, and remains there today. 2nd 4 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-6-2. 11,031 lbf (49.07 kN) September 1912 37564 Originally, Klondike Mines Railway #4. The Klondike Mines Railway was abandoned in 1913 and the ...
The combined port anchor windlass and winch of the modern ferry Stena Britannica. The hydraulically operated brake and pawl allows the anchor to be dropped from the ship's bridge. [citation needed] A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it ...
Winch used on a fishing boat to bring in nets. The earliest literary reference to a winch can be found in the account of Herodotus of Halicarnassus on the Persian Wars (Histories 7.36), where he describes how wooden winches were used to tighten the cables for a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont in 480 BCE.
A windlass cocking mechanism on crossbows was used as early as 1215 in England, and most European crossbows had one by the Late Middle Ages. [6] Windlasses are sometimes used on boats to raise the anchor as an alternative to a vertical capstan (see anchor windlass). The handle used to open locks on the UK's inland waterways is called a windlass.
A second anchor is attached to the end of the anchor cable, and is dropped and set. A swivel is attached to the middle of the anchor cable, and the vessel connected to that. The vessel now swings in the middle of two anchors, which is acceptable in strong reversing currents, but a wind perpendicular to the current may break out the anchors, as ...
A logging donkey consists of a steam boiler and steam engine, [5] [6] connected to a winch mounted on a sled called a donkey sled. [7] [8] The donkeys were moved by simply dragging themselves with the winch line, originally hemp rope and later steel cable. They were used to move logs, by attaching lines to the logs and hauling them. [9] [10]
[21] [22] The handle near the outer edge of the rotary part makes the crank, [21] [23] [24] a human arm powering the rotation would be the connecting rod. [21] According to F. Lisheng and T. Qingjun, the hand-crank of the rotary quern was different from a crank, which was the combination of a hand-crank and a push-and-pull connecting rod by a ...