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unusual facts about hydraulic



2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident

Severe wing damage resulted in a fire and complete loss of hydraulic flight control systems.

Anthony Chabot

In 1852 and 1853 he and Edward Matteson, were working at Buckeye Hill and American Hill respectively, devised the first hydraulic mining technology.

Anti-lock braking system

; Pump: The pump in the ABS is used to restore the pressure to the hydraulic brakes after the valves have released it.

Aquifer test

Transmissivity The rate at which water is transmitted through a unit thickness of an aquifer under a unit hydraulic gradient.

Arado Ar 232

Typical designs of the era would use a side-mounted door for access, but the Ar 232 used hydraulically powered clamshell-doors on the rear of the bay with a ramp to allow cargo to be rolled into the hold.

Bandini 1000 V

Rear: Independent, triangle and lower arms swinging shock hydraulic telescopic inclined agents on portamozzo, torsion bar, camber caster, and Toe adjustable

Bentham, North Yorkshire

The old organ, which is no longer playable, was built by William Hill of London as a "house organ" for Walker Joy, a prosperous oil merchant in Leeds; his brother designed a hydraulic engine to pump the bellows, making it the first ever to be blown by mechanical power.

Bicycle suspension

For 10 years AMP Research manufactured their full-suspension bikes in small quantities in Laguna Beach, California, including the manufacture of their own hubs, rear shocks, front suspension forks and cable-actuated-hydraulic disc brakes which they pioneered.

Blade off testing

The rule did not apply to engines which were already in service, and an uncontained engine failure of the Number 2 (tail) General Electric CF6 engine of United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19, 1989 caused the hydraulic failure and crash landing of that aircraft.

Blowout preventer

Documents discussed during congressional hearings June 17, 2010, suggested that a battery in the device's control pod was flat and that the rig's owner, Transocean, may have "modified" Cameron's equipment for the Macondo site (including incorrectly routing hydraulic pressure to a stack test valve instead of a pipe ram BOP) which increased the risk of BOP failure, in spite of warnings from their contractor to that effect.

Böckler

Georg Andreas Böckler (1644–1698), German architect and engineer specialising in hydraulic architecture

Borodino-class battlecruiser

There were suggestions to improve the machinery with geared turbines, turbo-electric drive, or Föttinger's hydraulic transmission, but these were more theoretical than practical.

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

Cárcamo de Dolores

The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.

Cassiterite

The mineral occurs extensively in Cornwall as surface deposits on Bodmin Moor, for example, where there are extensive traces of an hydraulic mining method known as streaming.

Cell disruption

Constant Cell Disruption Systems by Constant Systems part of Score Group plc - these systems are fully contained and operate using a finely controlled hydraulic system powered by electricity only.

Chena, Alaska

There was a pump station to provide water for the hydraulic mining operations on the other side of Chena Ridge, near Ester.

CP Class 1150

Série 1150 are small Sentinel shunting locomotives (with diesel-hydraulic engines built by Rolls-Royce) built in 1966-1967 for Portuguese Railways (CP).

Cybernetic Serendipity

Edward Ihnatowicz's biomorphic hydraulic ear turned toward sounds and John Billigsey's Albert 1967 turned to face light.

Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

Dimock was the site of a much publicized water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, which was shown in the 2010 documentary Gasland.

École nationale supérieure de l'énergie, l'eau et l'environnement

The school program offers training in the following specialties: Multimedia Signal and Image Communication Systems, Energy systems and Energy markets, Hydraulic structures and environments, Electric Power Engineering, Mechanical energy, Energy Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, Automatic systems and information and Product Engineering.

EPANET

Within EPANET, pumps are modeled using a head-flow curve, which defines the relationship between hydraulic head imparted to the system by the pump and flow conveyed by the pump.

Ford MEL engine

A 10.5:1 compression, a Holley four-barrel carb, and hydraulic lifters pushed out 345 hp (248 kW) and 475 lb·ft (644 Nm) of torque.

Giovanni Antonio Amadeo

In this period he worked also as Ducal engineer for Ludovico il Moro, designing fortifications at Chiavenna and Piattamale, as well as repairing of roads and bridges in Valtellina and (in the 16th century) hydraulic works; for Ludovico he also realized a Loggia in the Ducal Palace of Vigevano, as well as some statues for the Milanese Cathedral.

Hydraulic fracturing proppants

Except for diesel-based additive fracturing fluids, noted by the American Environmental Protection Agency to have a higher proportion of volatile organic compounds and carcinogenic BTEX, use of fracturing fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations was explicitly excluded from regulation under the American Clean Water Act in 2005, a legislative move that has since attracted controversy for being the product of special interests lobbying.

Hydraulic press

Boris Artzybasheff also created a drawing of a hydraulic press, in which the press was created out of the shape of a robot.

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press.

Hydraulic telegraph

The British civil engineer Francis Whishaw, who later became a principal in the General Telegraph Company, publicized a hydraulic telegraph in 1838 but was unable to deploy it commercially.

Japan Transport Engineering Company

Coaches were built by Rotem and specialist diesel-hydraulic power packs were built by MTU Friedrichshafen (engine) and Voith (transmission system).

Johann Conrad Susemihl

It was by Carl Friedrich Wiebeking (1762-1842), a government hydraulic engineer and author of a number of books, and shows the course of the Rhine from Remagen to Bonn.

John Peter Oleson

His main interests are the Roman Near East, maritime archaeology (particularly Roman harbours), and ancient technology, especially hydraulic technology, water-lifting devices, and Roman concrete construction.

Köf

DRG Kleinlokomotive Class I - strictly speaking these were Kö, not Köf locomotives as they did not have hydraulic transmission.

Launched roller coaster

A recent newcomer to the hydraulic launch industry is Vekoma, who opened a coaster in 2004 called Booster Bike at Toverland in the Netherlands, said to give riders a sensation of racing on high performance motorcycles over a low twisted layout, at speeds up to 47 mph (75 km/h).

Leo Frankowski

He owned and operated Sterling Manufacturing and Design, located in Utica, Michigan, which (among other things) designed pneumatic and hydraulic systems for Chrysler.

Li Zhaozhuo

He graduated from the department of civil engineering of Guangxi University, majoring in agricultural hydraulic engineering.

Lockheed XF-104

The hydraulic actuators driving the ailerons were only one inch (25 mm) thick to fit into the available space and were known as Piccolo actuators because of their resemblance to this musical instrument.

Mantis the spider robot

The robot is controlled by a computer running the Linux operating system and HexEngine software, which controls the hydraulic solenoid in the legs.

Maserati 4CL and 4CLT

Other changes included the use of roller bearings for the crankshaft, forged (rather than cast) rear suspension components, and the chassis was designed to run with hydraulic dampers from the outset.

Mazonovo

There is also Mazonovo's first mill that used a hydraulic press, a medieval mill that visitors can set in motion, a manual Chinese mill, and a hydraulic Brazilian (Monjolo) mill.

Msida

In the late 19th century, a floating British navy hydraulic dock was also planned at the central part of Msida close to where the Torpedo Depot used to stand.

Newby Hall

At other times the train is pulled by the Countess De Grey or Lady Mary Vyner, LPG-powered Diesel-Hydraulic locomotives designed by David Curwen and built by Severn Lamb.

Permit-class submarine

Joints in any equipment carrying seawater must be welded (not brazed), and every hull penetration larger than a specified size can be quickly shut by a remote hydraulic mechanism.

Peter Agre

He also contemplated the fact that both Germany and China have leaders who are trained research scientists (Germany: Angela Merkel, PhD, Physical Chemistry; China: Hu Jintao, Hydraulic Engineer).

Pungești

In late 2013, Pungești became a center of ongoing protests against shale gas exploitation through hydraulic fracturing.

Richard Tangye

The company was commissioned to design the hydraulic systems for the UK's first funicular cliff railway in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1869.

Ruston-Bucyrus

In 1990 RB bought from its rival Priestman, the design and manufacturing rights to Priestman's Variable Counterbalance hydraulic/cable long reach excavator range and its extensive range of Grabs.

South African Class 61-000

The Class 61-000 type DH 1420 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany.

Tiltrotator

With its integral quick coupler and rotary swivel, Rototilts also use extra hydraulic functions to power and manipulate other worktools such as a breaker, grapple or an auger, which can be attached to the quickcoupler on the tiltrotator, for simplified attachment mounting, dramatically increasing the machine's utilization on the jobsite.

WAGR Z class

In November 1953 three diesel-hydraulic locomotives commenced operating at Albany, Bunbury and Esperance yards.

William E. Metzger, Jr.

Flares in the cockpit were ignited and a fire roared therein which was further increased by free-flowing fluid from damaged hydraulic lines.


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