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  2. Honda Gyro - Wikipedia

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    (in Japanese) Gyro X page at honda.co.jp; Gyro Canopy information page from Honda site, translated via Google (in Japanese) Road Fox Video at honda.co.jp; Canopy (at left) in context, street scene, Tokyo Hiroo district. Flickr photo results for 'Honda Gyro' Honda Stream Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine brochure at Product Design Data ...

  3. Electro Gyrocator - Wikipedia

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    The Electro Gyro-Cator was claimed to be the world's first automated commercially available automotive navigation system. [1] [2] It was co-developed by Honda, Alpine, [3] [4] and Stanley Electric Co.. Unlike most navigation systems of today, it did not use GPS satellites to maintain its position and discern movement of the vehicle.

  4. Stephens Bros. Boat Builders - Wikipedia

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    Stephens Bros. boat owners meet every year at the Stephens Rendezvous, organized by the Northern California Fleet of the Classic Yacht Association, to show off these beautiful vessels. A collection of Stephens Bros. documents, photographs and original drawings are available to the public in the archives of The Haggin Museum in the brothers ...

  5. Bensen B-8 - Wikipedia

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    B-8B Hydro-Boat - B-8 with a full boat hull intended to be towed behind another boat; B-8M Gyro-Copter - standard motorised version, main production type. Usually powered by a McCulloch 4318 engine B-8MH Hover-Gyro - twin, coaxial rotor design with powered lower rotor and autorotating upper rotor, giving it the capability of hovering. Upper ...

  6. California Steam Navigation Company - Wikipedia

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    This profitability lured new competitors, just as it did in 1850. Individual boats such as Surprise and Martin White began service in 1855. Rates from San Francisco to Sacramento fell as low as $0.25 per passenger as the California Steam Navigation Company sought to eliminate the thinly-capitalized newcomers. [1]

  7. Autogyro - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide, over 1,000 autogyros are used by authorities for military and law enforcement. The first U.S. police authorities to evaluate an autogyro were the Tomball, Texas, police, on a $40,000 [28] grant from the U.S. Department of Justice together with city funds, [29] [30] costing much less than a helicopter to buy ($75,000) and operate ($50 ...

  8. Gyro - Wikipedia

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    GYRO, a computer program for tokamak plasma simulation; Gyro Motor Company, an American aircraft engine manufacturer; Gyrodactylus salaris, a parasite in salmon; Gyroscope, an orientation-stabilizing device; Autogyro, a type of rotary-wing aircraft; Honda Gyro, a family of tilting three wheel vehicles

  9. Steamboats of California - Wikipedia

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    The second and larger steamer up the Sacramento was the 755-ton side-wheel steamship SS Senator, a former Atlantic coastal steamer from Boston. It arrived from its voyage around Cape Horn, on October 7, 1849, and began running on the river November 8, and began bringing in $60,000 each month.