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  2. Zero-turn mower - Wikipedia

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    If one drive wheel turns more rapidly than the other, the machine moves along a curved path. If both wheels turn at the same speed, the machine follows a straight path. If one wheel stops and the other turns, or if the wheels turn in opposite directions, the mower pivots. [7] [9] [10] This drive system can be used on two types of zero-turn mowers:

  3. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    Many such sites have hominin bones, teeth, or footprints, but unless they also include evidence for tools or tool use, they are omitted here. This list excludes tools and tool use attributed to non-hominin species. See Tool use by non-humans. Since there are far too many hominin tool sites to list on a single page, this page attempts to list ...

  4. Zero-turn mowers - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 31 December 2015, at 21:54 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    The plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. In modern use, a plowed field is typically left to dry out, and is harrowed before planting.

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  7. Simple machine - Wikipedia

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    A simple machine uses a single applied force to do work against a single load force. Ignoring friction losses, the work done on the load is equal to the work done by the applied force. The machine can increase the amount of the output force, at the cost of a proportional decrease in the distance moved by the load.

  8. Timeline of computing hardware before 1950 - Wikipedia

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    First use of Herman Hollerith tabulating system in the Baltimore Department of Health. 1887 United States: Herman Hollerith filed a patent application for an integrating tabulator (granted in 1890), which could add numbers encoded on punched cards. First recorded use of this device was in 1889 in the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army.

  9. History of the motorcycle - Wikipedia

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    [7] the Butler Petrol Cycle (first recorded use of the term) [7] It was a three-wheeled vehicle, with the rear wheel directly driven by a 5 / 8 hp (466W) 600 cc (40 in 3; 2¼×5-inch {57×127-mm}) [7] flat twin four stroke engine (with magneto ignition replaced by coil and battery), [7] equipped with rotary valves and a float-fed carburettor ...