Word: winch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented the catapult...
...Paris seven paupers froze to death in the streets. Some, it was told, had refused to accept warmth and shelter for winch they could not pay. Misjudging their powers of resistance to the unfamiliar cold,* they had stumbled on through the snow -too long...
...State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers. He worked on the beach, in the hospitals, and as a newspaper correspondent...
...Jersey, a greyish bubble swaying over Lakehurst broke its anchor (a ground winch), sailed up and away toward the Atlantic. Three specks?an auto, an airplane, a blimp?gave chase. A figure in the passenger basket manipulated valves, lowered the bubble so that its dangling cable trailed across the landscape. Within four miles of the sea, the cable finally tangled itself in a tree. Rescuers pulled down Lieut. Frank J. Uhlig, U. S. Marines, deflated his kite balloon, took both home uninjured...
...crossing it. It does not matter what depth the submarine is running the paravane is beneath it, the wire (which has electrical wires in its centre) crossing the hull of the submarine has a tendency to make the paravane curl under it, puts an extra strain on the winch of the towing destroyer, thus releasing a dynamometer switch and blowing up the paravane which is filled with lyddite. The cost of these explosive paravanes is, including the winch and apparatus, almost as high as that of a torpedo. Once paravane is streamed it is a very risky, if not impossible...