Word: flywheels
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...vehicles will look-and ride-like ordinary electric trolley-buses. But when they begin rolling up and down the city's hills next year, transportation engineers everywhere will be eagerly watching their progress. The test vehicles will be pushed along part of their routes by a spinning flywheel...
...some of the crew exercises, as shown in my second example--the ergometer--was the mental anxiety which was bound to linger in anticipation of the next day's workout. The ergometer is a machine which an oarsman rows upon in practice and the act of rowing turns a flywheel. The problem is that an oarsman cannot ease his effort because that will slow the flywheel and in turn, make the next stroke all the more difficult. The exercise causes all kinds of muscles to scream out in pain. There were several times when I stopped in the middle...
Most scientists have attributed the peculiar spin of Venus to huge tidal bulges created long ago on the surface of the planet by the sun's gravitational field. Such bulges would have acted like brake shoes on the rim of a flywheel; eventually they could have slowed the planet's rotation and perhaps even reversed it. Singer, the Interior Department's deputy assistant secretary for scientific programs, considers this explanation totally inadequate. The solar tidal effect, he says in Science, would have been far too small to account for even Venus' current rate of rotation, only...
...film as Manhattan's Gallery of Modern Art unreeled a three-week retrospective devoted to the Marx Brothers' comedies. Groucho, 71, now a distinguished man of letters with the publication this month of his correspondence, still looked very much like Hugo Z. Hackenbush or Wolf J. Flywheel when he dropped by for a night in the theater with his wife Eden, his brother Zeppo, 66, and Mrs. Zeppo, Barbara Marx. After watching himself lope through A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera, Groucho fired up a stogie and remarked: "I didn't realize...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...