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2. Cable machine - Wikipedia

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   A cable machine is an item of equipment used in weight training or functional training. It consists of a rectangular, vertically oriented steel frame about 3 metres wide and 2 metres high, with a weight stack attached via a cable and pulley system to one or more handles. [1] The cables that connect the handles to the weight stacks run through ...

3. Weight machine - Wikipedia

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   A weight machine is an exercise machine used for weight training that uses gravity as the primary source of resistance and a combination of simple machines to convey that resistance to the person using the machine. Each of the simple machines (pulley, lever, wheel, incline) changes the mechanical advantage of the overall machine relative to the ...

4. Transmission tower - Wikipedia

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   Cable riggers atop a pylon adding a fibre optic data cable wound around the top tower stay cable. The cable is wound on by a traveling machine, which rotates a cable drum around the support cable as it goes. This travels under its own power from tower to tower, where it is dismantled and hoisted across to the opposite side.

5. Counterweight - Wikipedia

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   an extension of the cable itself far beyond geostationary orbit. Counterweight of elevator Concrete counterweights on a tower crane Bascule bridge with concrete counterweight. Metronome: A wind-up mechanical metronome has an adjustable weight and spring mechanism that allows the speed to be adjusted by placement of the weight on the spindle ...

6. Pull-down (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   Cable pull-down exercise to the front with a medium-width overhand (pronated) grip The pull-down exercise is a strength training exercise designed to develop the latissimus dorsi muscle. It performs the functions of downward rotation and depression of the scapulae combined with adduction and extension of the shoulder joint.

7. Drilling rig - Wikipedia

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   Cable tool drilling was developed in ancient China and was used for drilling brine wells. The salt domes also held natural gas, which some wells produced and which was used for evaporation of the brine. Drake learned of cable tool drilling from Chinese laborers in the U.S. [4] The first primary product was kerosene for lamps and heaters.