Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The electric overhead garage door opener was invented by C.G. Johnson in 1926 in Hartford City, Indiana. [1] Electric Garage Door openers did not become popular until Era Meter Company of Chicago offered one after World War II where the overhead garage door could be opened via a key pad located on a post at the end of the driveway or a switch inside the garage.
Simple remote control systems use a fixed code word; the code word that opens the gate today will also open the gate tomorrow. An attacker with an appropriate receiver could discover the code word and use it to gain access sometime later. More sophisticated remote control systems use a rolling code (or hopping code) that changes for every use.
Such a system could be adapted for use with remote drivers or automatic control over closed roadway circuits such as warehouses and theme parks. Online Electric Vehicles (OHVs) use pick-up equipment underneath the vehicle then collects power through non-contact magnetic induction, which may imply a similar electrical design.
The latter headed the Railway Storage Battery Car Company and the Electric Car & Locomotive Corp. [57] Car No. 105 of the Alaska Railroad was an Edison-Beach car, [58] and examples operated on the Central Vermont Railway running between Millers Falls, Northfield and West Townshend. [59] A notable feature of the Edison-Beach cars was the Beach ...
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
Emergency responders along an icy Interstate 94 in Comstock Township, Michigan, ran for their lives Thursday morning when a box truck driver lost control, skidded along the slippery highway and ...
The model's predecessor, the UAZ-450 (produced between 1958 and 1966), was based on the chassis and engine of the four-wheel drive light truck GAZ-69, and was the first "forward control" vehicle of this type to be built in Russia or anywhere else in the Soviet Union. [1] The UAZ-450 was lightly revised and simplified, resulting in the UAZ-452. [2]
BIG TRAK / bigtrak is a programmable toy electric vehicle created by Milton Bradley in 1979, resembling a futuristic Sci-Fi tank / utility vehicle. [1] The original Big Trak was a six-wheeled (two-wheel drive) tank with a front-mounted blue "photon beam" headlamp, and a keypad on top.