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Dust-Off is a brand of dust cleaner (refrigerant-based propellant cleaner, which is not compressed air and incorrectly called "canned air") containing difluoroethane; it is used to remove particulates and dust from computers and electronic equipment.
This concept covered by U.S. Patent # 6,279,550 and many others, include the concept of admitting cold, or chilled, compressed air into the cylinder and combustion chamber of a compression or spark ignited engine during its compression stroke.
Where there are special requirements to protect against fire and explosion, they may be driven by compressed air.
The precharged pneumatic uses an external source of compressed air, either an external pump or a high pressure reservoir such as a SCUBA tank, to fill a reservoir.
Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
Air gun, a rifle, pistol, or shotgun which fires projectiles by means of compressed air or other gas
Air blaster, a compressed air device to unblock large storage containers for powdery material
Compressed air car, a car that uses a motor powered by compressed air
In order to achieve the highest efficiency using compressed air, many manufacturers of compressed air knives utilize the Coandă effect to improve compressed air knife design over other types of knives and nozzles.
Air line is most commonly used for supplying compressed air to air tools in workshops and in road vehicle air brake or railway air brake systems on larger vehicles or rail cars.
The subsequent Overstrand bomber featured the world's first enclosed, power-operated turret, mounting a single Lewis gun and propelled by compressed air.
The French Navy was also already working on another design, Plongeur, with a compressed air engine, which was launched in 1863.
In the 1970s, Goodyear Aerospace in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, used a gun with a ceramic diaphragm to seal the compressed air in the tank from the gun's barrel.
It is most memorable for being the location where Bond (played for the first time by Roger Moore) kills Kananga (played by Yaphet Kotto) by forcing him to swallow a bullet of compressed air, causing him to float up to the ceiling like a balloon and explode.
In the 1920s, Ildebrando Zacchini invented a cannon that used compressed air to launch a human cannonball.
Using compressed air and the Greathead tunnelling shield, the line was constructed in twin tubes, passing under the River Thames and terminating at the Mansion House, in a common station provided by the Central London Railway.
Air Hogs, a toy brand, also uses compressed air to power piston engines in toy airplanes (and some other toy vehicles).