Search results for "Valve" - New World Encyclopedia
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- that as temperature rises opens a valve to cooling water to speed controllers such the cruise control system in an automobile. The programmable ...16 KB (2,145 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- after undocking from space station Salyut 1. A valve on their spacecraft had accidentally opened when the service module separated, letting their air ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- since most have a single shell, or valve, which is characteristically coiled or spiraled, as in snails, limpets, abalones, cowries, whelks, ...20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
- A side effect of the lead additives was protection of the valve seats ... fuel without need for additives to prevent valve problems. ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- of life preservers, and Goodyear noticed that the valve used to inflate the preservers did not operate well. He created his own design, and reported ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- on the two sides of the piston was one. A throttle valve to control the power of the engine, and a centrifugal governor to keep it from "running ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- amount of oxygen using a regulator valve. However, extended, heavy use of inhaled nitrous oxide has been associated with Olney's Lesions. ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. Fountains ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- The invention of the piston and rotary valve by Stolzel and Bluhmel, both Silesians, in 1815, was the first in a series of innovations, including ...22 KB (3,200 words) - 00:24, 30 May 2023
- [[Image:Walschaerts_motion.gif|frame|Walschaerts valve gear in a steam locomotive. In this animation, the red color represents live steam entering ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- equipped with a governor, a centripetal feedback valve for controlling the speed of the engine. Alfred Russel Wallace identified this as the principle ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- in pressure by passing through a throttling valve or other throttling device. This process is one of the simplest unit operations. ...29 KB (4,405 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- A calculator is a device for performing calculations. Modern calculators often incorporate a general-purpose computing system, but they are often ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- Siemens AG, instead of the more common solenoid valve devices. === Frequency standard === The piezoelectrical properties of quartz are useful ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- are usually fitted with a non-return valve, which eliminates this need. The air supply is provided to the bag which then supplies its air to ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- Bubber Miley. Later in the decade, Juan Tizol’s valve trombone added a third voice for that instrument. His smooth, atmospheric playing had a Latin ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- can. At the bottom of the TDU is a large ball valve. An ice plug is set on top of the ball valve to protect it, the cans on top of the ice plug. ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- special part of the tongue called the "palatal valve" closes off their respiratory system when they are underwater. This way they can open ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- prone areas include installation of an earthquake valve to instantly shut off the natural gas supply to the property, seismic retrofits of property ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- His wife June Carter Cash died of complications following heart valve replacement surgery on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73. June had told Cash ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- keeps one of the two valves and grows a smaller valve within it. As a result, after each division cycle the average size of diatom cells in the population ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- For example, when a draw note is played, the valve on the blow reed-slot is sucked shut, preventing air from leaking through the inactive blow reed ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- may or may not additionally induce the growth of a valve in the xylem, but the idea is that the plant would harness the power of the wind to pump out ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- The Titan features a 32 valve 5.6 L VK56DE V8 engine which generates 305 hp, and is capable of towing approximately 9500 pounds. The Nissan Titan ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- of the oscillating vacuum-tube (valve). In 1920, employing a vacuum-tube transmitter, the Chelmsford Marconi factory was the location for the ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- An almost complete chassis with the engine, some pipe work, the valve gear and the steering gear. The wheels, boiler and bodywork are missing ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- his one-man tour for surgery to replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heartbeat.Kathleen Doheny, [https://www ...61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
- first due to Jagger's surgery for a heart valve replacement, and then due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rolling Stones—featuring Jagger ...30 KB (4,791 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2023
- nitrogen or argon gas with a pyrotechnic operated valve ("hybrid gas generator"), while other technologies use various energetic propellants ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- interest), INSELA (a Venezuelan gas valve and electrical equipment manufacturer in which Enron held 50%), and Enron's paper and forest ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bi-valve shell. However, George Beadle demonstrated that the kernels of teosinte are readily "popped ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- Sardar Sardev Singh, who owned a ball bearing and valve factory. title= The renaissance of Harbhajan| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/1638947 ...42 KB (6,183 words) - 19:43, 29 January 2022
- The Russian battleship Potemkin ( Князь Потёмкин Таврический|translit=Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy , "Prince Potemkin ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- An electric motor converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. The reverse task, that of converting kinetic energy into electrical energy ...46 KB (7,150 words) - 00:15, 13 February 2024
- were drawn into the instrument through a valve mechanism designed to sequentially connect up to 32 rooms to the mass spectrometer. A computer ...44 KB (6,414 words) - 16:19, 7 November 2022
- boolean algebra, the vacuum tube (thermionic valve), and the teleprinter. During the first half of the twentieth century, many scientific computing ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- were once commonly supplied with vacuum tube (valve) equipment, such as domestic tape recorders. Their high output impedance matched the high input ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- Michael S. Fuhrer, "Gate-tunable Graphene Spin Valve" Applied Physics Letters 91 (2007):123105.Megumi Ohishi, et al., "Spin Injection ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- separate atria, and are directed via a spiral valve to the appropriate vessel—aorta for oxygenated blood and pulmonary vein for deoxygenated blood. ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- In June 2014, Glenn underwent successful heart valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. John Newsome and Joshua Berlinger, [https://www ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- and translated into light waves via a light valve, a thin ribbon of sensitive metal over a tiny slit. The sound reaching this ribbon would be ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
