enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Holless Wilbur Allen - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holless_Wilbur_Allen

   Allen was born July 12, 1909, in Stilwell, Kansas.In the 1960s, he sawed the ends off a conventional recurve bow and then added pulleys to each end. [1] Allen experimented with a number of designs to apply for a patent on June 23, 1966, [2] and U.S. patent 3,486,495 was granted to him in December 1969.

3. Compound bow - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_bow

   In modern archery, a compound bow is a bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs. [1] The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in North Kansas City, Missouri, and a US patent was granted in 1969. Compound bows are widely used in target practice and hunting.

4. Composite bow - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_bow

   Reconstruction of a Ming dynasty Kaiyuan horn, bamboo, and sinew composite bow by Chinese bowyer Gao Xiang A Korean master archer using a modern Korean composite bow. A composite bow is a traditional bow made from horn, wood, and sinew laminated together, a form of laminated bow.

5. Compound engine - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_engine

   A compound engine uses several stages to produce its output. Not all engines that use multiple stages are called compound engines.In particular, if an engine uses a later stage purely to extract energy from the exhaust for some other purpose, and notably for turbo charging, is not called a compound engine.

6. Harley-Davidson XR-750 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_XR-750

   The XR-750 was designed in response to a 1969 change in AMA Grand National Championship rules that leveled the playing field for makes other than Harley-Davidson, allowing Japanese and British motorcycles to outperform the previously dominant Harley-Davidson KR race bike. [1]