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unusual facts about Crawler-transporter


Marion Power Shovel Company

Marion also designed and built the NASA Crawler-transporter used to transport both the Saturn V rocket and later the Space Shuttle to their launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.


Aerial Lift Bridge

This type of span, which is known variously as an aerial transfer, ferry, or transporter bridge, had first been demonstrated in Bilbao's Vizcaya Bridge in 1893 and one in France in 1898.

Armoured personnel carrier

Wheeled APCs are faster on road, and can cross long distances; typically, due to the limited lifetime of the treads, tracked vehicles are transported cross country by rail, or a flatbed truck which may or may not be a purpose built transporter.

Assault on the Senses

One of the professors who teaches at the university is named "Dr. Romita," a clear nod to artist John Romita, Sr. or possibly his son, artist John Romita, Jr. The Marvel Comics character Spider-Man is also referenced at one point, when Kalvin tells Katie that as a child he wanted to grow up to be the wall-crawler.

Banned from Argo

"The Captain" (James T. Kirk) indulging his sexual appetites with "five partners, each of a different world and sex", requiring an escape by transporter to prevent his arrest by the "shore police".

Beta cell

When the glucose concentration outside the cell is high, glucose molecules move into the cell by facilitated diffusion, down its concentration gradient through the GLUT2 transporter.

Bilirubin diglucuronide

It is pumped across the hepatic canalicular membrane into the bile by the transporter MRP2.

Black Moon Rising

In a desperate attempt to evade Ringer and get the tape back to a government official (played by Bubba Smith), Quint hides the cassette in a 300-MPH prototype vehicle, the Black Moon, which is on a transporter destined for a public presentation in Los Angeles.

Break-of-gauge

More rarely, standard gauge vehicles are carried over narrow gauge tracks using adaptor vehicles; examples include the Rollbocke transporter wagon arrangements in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and the milk transporter wagons of the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway in England.

Bremervörde

It connects various places between Bremervörde and Kiel with relation to the history of ferries and crossing of rivers, like the historic transporter bridges in Osten and Rendsburg.

Brian Whitesell

He joined Hendrick Motorsports in 1993 as a transporter driver, timer/scorer, and chassis technical on rookie Jeff Gordon's #24 DuPont team.

Complete Auto Transit v. Brady

Complete Auto was an auto transporter involved in moving General Motors vehicles from the railhead at Jackson, Mississippi to dealerships in Mississippi.

Crawler excavator

The Crawler Excavator components include a major crawler chassis, rotor support, the central swivel joints, turntables, the device weight, the panel, cab and air-conditioners.

Economy of Bihar

General Electric Co. (GE) and Electro Motive Diesel Inc. (EMD) will compete for the second contract—to build and supply 1,000 diesel train engines for the national transporter.

Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase

Aldolase has also been implicated in many "moonlighting" or non-catalytic functions, based upon its binding affinity for multiple other proteins including F-actin, α-tubulin, light chain dynein, WASP, Band 3 anion exchanger, phospholipase D (PLD2), glucose transporter GLUT4, inositol trisphosphate, V-ATPase and ARNO (a guanine nucleotide exchange factor of ARF6).

German Ferry Road

It connects various places between Bremervörde and Kiel with relation to the history of ferries and crossing of rivers, like the historic transporter bridges in Rendsburg and Osten.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper

EVA Two (Duration 6 hours, 45 minutes) -- With astronaut Robert S. Kimbrough, Stefanyshyn-Piper relocated the two Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) carts from the starboard side of the Mobile Transporter to the port side, lubricated the station robotic arm’s latching end effector A snare bearings, continued cleaning and lubrication of the starboard SARJ.

Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja

Izuna is a dungeon crawler game with randomly generated dungeons, much like the Mystery Dungeon series.

Krondor: The Betrayal

Tsurani gem smugglers led by The Crawler and traitors to the crown are all plotting the fall of the Kingdom of the Isles.

KTO Ryś

(KTRI for Kołowy Transporter Rozpoznania Inżynieryjnego - lit. Wheeled Engineering Reconnaissance Vehicle; Tuja is Polish for Thuja) - wheeled engineering vehicle.

Mercedes-Benz Actros

Singapore uses military variants of the Actros for its Singapore Army - in heavy-lift logisticial support roles, designated as the HMCT (High Mobility Cargo Transporter) and recently as a launch platform for the SPYDER air defense system.

Mercury transporter

Mercury transporter (MerF) is a transmembrane bacterial transporter of mercury ions.

Michael M. Gottesman

His areas of expertise includes a major contribution to the discovery of P-glycoprotein (MDR1, ABCB1), the multidrug resistance efflux transporter associated with clinical resistance to anti-cancer agents.

Mir-451 microRNA

miR-451 regulates the drug-transporter protein P-glycoprotein, potentially promoting resistance to the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel.

No.1-class landing ship

In April 1943, the General Staff requested a high-speed military transporter to the Technical Department.

Norconex

In 2013 Norconex released its first contribution to the open-source community with its HTTP Web crawler (named Norconex HTTP Collector).

Osten Transporter Bridge

Osten Transporter Bridge is an 80 metre long transporter bridge over the Oste River in Osten (Oste), Lower Saxony, Germany.

Protonophore

This would otherwise not occur as protons have positive charge and hydrophilic properties, making them unable to cross without a channel or transporter.

Robert Mark Kamen

Kamen is a frequent collaborator of French writer, director and producer Luc Besson—his co-creator on The Fifth Element, The Transporter, and Taken.

Rolls-Royce Meteorite

It powered the Thornycroft Antar or Mighty Antar Tank Transporter, so was used to transport Meteor-engined tanks, the Centurion and Conqueror (and later the non-Meteor Chieftain).

Rubicon Trail

Many large events take place on the trail, ranging from Jeep-only events (Jeep Jamboree) and 4x4 enthusiast events (Jeepers Jamboree, TLCA's Rubithon, Marlin Crawler Round-Up) to family trips to special events organized just for SUVs and stock 4x4s that could not otherwise complete the trail.

Search appliance

The Clusterpoint Search Appliance software package includes Crawler, Web server, high speed scalable document-oriented database, management application and customizable web-GUI based search application.

SGN

Scotia Gas Networks, a Gas Transporter operating in Scotland and southern England.

Sky Ride

In the United States, only two transporter bridges were ever built: the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota in 1905, and the Sky Ride.

Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours

Another Marvel Comics character, Doctor Strange is included in the novel as a figure from whom the wall-crawler seeks assistance.

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

Once in orbit above such a planet, the player could use Kirk's screen to move to the transporter room.

The Transporter

A television series premiered in 2012 on October 11 in Germany on RTL and on December 6 in France on M6.

The Transporter (French: Le Transporteur) is a 2002 French action film directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen and written by Luc Besson, who was inspired by BMW Films' The Hire series.

Transporter erector

The United States Air Force's Minuteman ICBM weapon system Transporter Erector (TE) is a mobile system used to emplace LGM-30 Minuteman missiles inside their protective launch facilities.

Transporter Industry International

Transporter Industry International GmbH is a conglomerate of companies providing heavy load transportation including Scheuerle, Nicolas and KAMAG Transporttechnik GmbH & Company (based in Ulm, Germany).

Trapster

He would later defeat Spider-Man in one-on-one combat after being enlisted to battle the wall-crawler as part of the Acts of Vengeance conspiracy; it was only through merest quirk of fate that Spider-Man even survived the battle.

Well deck

On 19 July 1941 Major R. E. Holloway, Royal Engineers, forwarded a design from a 1924 patent by Otto Popper of the Danube International Commission concerning a barge transporter for Danube barges.

Well dock

On July 19, 1941 Major R. E. Holloway, Royal Engineers, forwarded a design from a 1924 patent by Otto Popper of the Danube International Commission concerning a barge transporter for Danube barges.

Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge

The first transporter bridge in the world had been opened in 1893 in Bilbao, Spain.

Xatar

In December 2009, he and his seven accomplices, disguised as cops and taxmen, attacked a gold transporter on the A 81 near Ludwigsburg.


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