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• Brake (railway)
  * brakes on the [[locomotive]]. * putting the locomotive into reverse.
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• Top dead center
  ...at dead centres can never exist on all cranks at the same time. A [[steam locomotive]] is an example of the latter, the connecting rods being arranged such that ==Steam engine==
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• Combustion chamber
  ==Steam engine== ...between the [[Firebox (steam engine)|firebox]] and [[boiler]] in a [[steam locomotive]]. This space is used to allow further combustion of the fuel, providing gr
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• Vacuum brake
  ...n the [[locomotive]] and in brake vehicles through the train, and later by steam power brakes on locomotives. This was clearly unsatisfactory, but the techn ...mpressed air, was preferred because steam locomotives can be fitted with [[Steam ejector|ejectors]], which are simple venturi devices that create vacuum wit
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• Air brake (rail)
  ...350px|Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E-T Air Brake system on a locomotive.]] ...tainous regions, it became necessary to fit each car with brakes, as the [[locomotive]] was no longer capable of bringing the train to a halt in a reasonable dis
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• Connecting rod
  ==Steam engines== In a [[steam locomotive]], the [[crank pin]]s are often mounted directly on one or more pairs of [[
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• Fuel
  ...ough peat has been used for [[power generation]], and wood-burning steam [[locomotive]]s were common in times past.
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• Horsepower
  ...wer was first used by [[James Watt]] during a business venture where his [[steam engine]]s replaced [[horse]]s. It was defined that a horse can lift 33,000 ...ator'' - hence indicated horsepower. It was the figure normally used for [[steam engine]]s in the [[19th century]] but is misleading because the mechanical
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• Four-cylinder
  ...en the combustion process heats a separate working fluid, such as water or steam, which then in turn does work. ...ting-rods and fly wheel in which the gas essentially took the place of the steam. In 1870 in Vienna [[Siegfried Marcus]] put the first mobile gasoline engi
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• Tractor
  ...[[Latin]] ''trahere'' "to pull"; a conflicting history of the name is that steam tractors were originally referred to as [[traction engine]]s, eventually be ...1800's and early 1900's were [[steam tractor]]s. These were built around [[steam engine]]s, which were not very safe and could explode or entangle their ope
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• History of the automobile
  ===Steam era=== [[Image:FardierdeCugnot20050111.jpg|thumb|Cugnot's steam wagon, the second (1771) version]]
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• Wheel
  ....jpg|<font face="Trebuchet MS" font color=black>A driving wheel on a steam locomotive.
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• Internal-combustion engine
  ...en the combustion process heats a separate working fluid, such as water or steam, which then in turn does work. ...a gas-fired internal combustion engine not dissimilar in appearance to a [[steam]] [[beam engine]]. In 1870 in Vienna [[Siegfried Marcus]] put the first mob
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• Electric vehicle
  [[Image:DC Electric Locomotive.jpg|thumb|250px|right|An [[electric locomotive]], taking power through a [[Pantograph (rail)|pantograph]]]] *generated on-board using a combustion engine, as in a [[diesel-electric]] locomotive
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• Internal combustion engine
  This contrasts with [[external combustion engine]]s, such as [[steam engine]]s and [[Stirling engine]]s, which use the combustion process to hea ...od]]s, and [[flywheel]] in which the gas essentially took the place of the steam. This was the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers. H
  40 KB (6,068 words) - 09:48, 2 August 2009
• Electric car
  ...ar reactor]]. The nuclear reactor usually provides heat, which drives a [[steam turbine]], which drives a generator, which is then fed to the propulsion. ...[[1835]]. In 1838, a Scotsman named [[Robert Davidson]] built an electric locomotive that attained a speed of four miles an hour. In [[England]] a patent was gr
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• Two stroke
  ...ort is opened and exhaust gases move out of the cylinder due to inertia of steam. ...tern, the [[Dugald Clark|Clark cycle]], is common in truck, [[railroad]] [[locomotive]] and machinery engines.
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...ening period, the widest use of hybrid technology was actually in [[Diesel locomotive|diesel-electric locomotives]]. It is also used in diesel-electric [[submari ...r instead. This is similar to the operation of diesel-electric [[train]] [[locomotive]]s, except that [[as of 2006]], the overwhelming majority of diesel-electri
  64 KB (9,873 words) - 22:35, 14 June 2009
• List of automobile manufacturers
  *[[American Locomotive Company|Alco]] (1909) *[[American Locomotive Company]] (ALCO) (1909)
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