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  2. Yale (company) - Wikipedia

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    Initially known as Yale Lock Manufacturing Co., the company later adopted the name Yale & Towne, with its base in Newport, New York. [ 3 ] Between 1843 and 1857, Yale secured eight patents , encompassing items like the pin tumbler safe lock, safe lock, bank lock, vault, safe door bolt, and padlock, registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...

  3. Preselector gearbox - Wikipedia

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    Gear selection lever on the steering column of a 1934 Daimler Fifteen. A preselector gearbox is a type of manual transmission mostly used on passenger cars and racing cars in the 1930s, in buses from 1940–1960 and in armoured vehicles from the 1930s to the 1970s. The defining characteristic of a preselector gearbox is that the gear shift ...

  4. Linus Yale Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Yale's father, Linus Yale Sr., opened a lock shop in the 1840s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks; he was a successful inventor who specialized in expensive, handmade bank locks and mechanical engineering, and who held eight patents for locks and another half dozen for threshing machines, sawmill head blocks, and millstone dressers.

  5. Linus Yale Sr. - Wikipedia

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    First plant of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, started by Linus Yale Jr. and Henry R. Towne Old Yale Lock Shop, Newport, New York, first location of Linus Sr.'s bank lock shop. Linus Yale (April 27, 1797 – August 8, 1858) was an American businessman, inventor, metalsmith, and politician. He was a founder of Lamson, Goodnow, and Yale, an ...

  6. Car controls - Wikipedia

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    A floor-mounted gear lever in a modern passenger car with a manual transmission. Vehicles that generate power with an internal combustion engine (ICE) are generally equipped with a transmission or gearbox to change the speed-torque ratio and the direction of travel.

  7. Line lock - Wikipedia

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    Pontiac Trans Am burnout with line locks. A line lock is a device that allows the front brakes to lock independently of the rear brakes via a switch. [1] [2] [3] The device is an electric solenoid that controls a valve which allows the brakes to be controlled individually. This allows the front brakes to be locked and the rear brakes to be open ...

  8. Non-synchronous transmission - Wikipedia

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    Three-speed sliding-gear non-synchronous transmission Non-synchronous "crash" gearbox; commonly used today in semi-trucks and tractors, and formerly used in automobiles pre-1950s. A non-synchronous transmission, also called a crash gearbox, is a form of manual transmission based on gears that do not use synchronizing mechanisms. They require ...

  9. Slaymaker lock company - Wikipedia

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    The lock company, Slaymaker, Barry and Company, was founded in 1888 by Samuel R. Slaymaker and John F. Barry of Connellsville, Pennsylvania.Samuel Slaymaker had become interested in switch and signal locks while working for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a civil engineer.