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2. Handcar - Wikipedia

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   3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.

3. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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   Hand-powered force pump, with an air chamber to smooth out variations in flow rate. Hand pumps are manually operated pumps; they use human power and mechanical advantage to move fluids or air from one place to another. They are widely used in every country in the world for a variety of industrial, marine, irrigation and leisure activities.

4. Reciprocating pump - Wikipedia

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   Simple hand-operated reciprocating pump. The simplest example is the bicycle pump, which is used ubiquitously to inflate bicycle tires and various types of sporting balls. [1] Power-operated deep well reciprocating pump; By mechanism. Single-acting reciprocating pump consists of a piston of which only one side engages the fluid being displaced. [2]

5. Stirrup pump - Wikipedia

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   Fireguard on the roof of a building London 1941. A stirrup pump is a portable reciprocating water pump used to extinguish or control small fires. [1] It is operated by hand. The operator places a foot on a stirrup-like bracket at the bottom of the pump to hold the pump steady, the bottom of the suction cylinder is placed inside a bucket of wat

6. Fuel pump - Wikipedia

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   A Fuel pump is a component used in many liquid-fuelled engines (such as petrol/gasoline or diesel engines) to transfer the fuel from the fuel tank to the device where it is mixed with the intake air (such as the carburetor or fuel injector). Carbureted engines often use low-pressure mechanical pumps that are mounted on the engine.

7. Fuel cell vehicle - Wikipedia

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   By 2017, Daimler phased out its FCEV development, citing declining battery costs and increasing range of EVs, [53] and most of the automobile companies developing hydrogen cars had switched their focus to battery electric vehicles. [54] By 2020, only three car makers were still manufacturing, or had active manufacturing programs for hydrogen ...