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    An electric fire engine is a fire engine that is powered by an electric motor—essentially, an electric vehicle designed and used for firefighting. Electric...
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    A fire engine or fire truck (also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus...
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    The General Electric GE90 is a family of high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines built by GE Aerospace for the Boeing 777, with thrust ratings from 81,000...
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    invented the electric fan, an electric elevator design, and the electric fire engine. He is associated with the early development of the electric motor industry...
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    operating an electric fire engine out of Fire Hall No. 1 in Strathcona. This was the first electric fire engine to be deployed in Canada. The fire engine was introduced...
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    Electric aircraft Electric boat Electric fire engine Electric motorcycles and scooters Electric vehicle conversion Plug-in electric vehicle Plug-in hybrid...
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  • machine, and only fired every other stroke due to the Otto cycle, also designed by Otto. Three types of internal combustion engines were designed by German...
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    adoption of private electric vehicles throughout the 20th century. Internal combustion engines (both gasoline and diesel engines) were the dominant propulsion...
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  • Thumbnail for Chrysler Hemi engine
    FirePower series (with displacements from 241 cu in (3.9 L) to 392 cu in (6.4 L)) from 1951 to 1958; a famed 426 cu in (7.0 L) race and street engine...
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    2016 suffered an uncontained engine failure on its #2 engine (General Electric CF6) during takeoff resulting in a large fire which destroyed the outer right...
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    The firing order of an internal combustion engine is the sequence of ignition for the cylinders. In a spark ignition (e.g. gasoline/petrol) engine, the...
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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  • Diesel engine runaway is an occurrence in diesel engines, in which the engine draws excessive fuel from an unintended source and overspeeds at higher RPMs...
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    crankshaft of an internal combustion engine so as to initiate the engine's combustion cycle. Starters can be electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic. The starter...
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    locomotive engine Spacecraft propulsion engines such as Rocket engine Traction engine Aircraft engine Automobile engine replacement Electric motor Engine cooling...
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    Napier Deltic (redirect from Delta engine)
    130 opposed-piston, high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive...
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    Numerous plug-in electric vehicle (EV) fire incidents have taken place since the introduction of mass-production plug-in electric vehicles. In some cases...
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    Traditionally, electric motors are not referred to as "engines"; however, combustion engines are often referred to as "motors". (An electric engine refers to...
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    power aircraft, trains, ships, electric generators, pumps, gas compressors, and tanks. 50: Earliest records of Hero's engine (aeolipile). It most likely...
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    combustion engine power. However, the term could be used as an umbrella category to refer to bicycles using sources besides pedal power. Electric bicycles...
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    would wear too quickly to be useful. The first successful diesel engines used diesel–electric transmissions, and by 1925 a small number of diesel locomotives...
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  • propellants and is the first flight-ready engine to use the electric-pump-fed cycle. The rocket uses a similar engine arrangement to the Falcon 9; a two-stage...
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    Retrieved 17 October 2019. "Cumnock firm manufacture the world's first electric fire engine". Cumnockchronicle.com. "St John the Evangelist, Cumnock". Scotland's...
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    gas turbines, and large electric motors, are categorized separately. Stationary engines, especially stationary steam engines were once widespread in the...
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  • The General Electric Catalyst (formerly Advanced Turboprop, or ATP) is a turboprop engine by GE Aerospace. It was announced on 16 November 2015 and will...
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    BMW N57 (category BMW engines)
    straight-6 common rail diesel engines. The engines utilize variable geometry turbochargers and Bosch piezo-electric injectors. The engine jointly replaced the...
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    passenger trolleybus line, escalators, diesel engines, electric cars, dry cell batteries, electric fire engines, talking films, the telegraphone (the first...
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    chemical rocket engines. These types of rocket-like reaction engines use electric energy to obtain thrust from propellant. Electric propulsion thrusters...
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    one or more electric traction motors that operate to drive the vehicle wheels. All-electric vehicles ("electric cars") eliminate the engine altogether...
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  • Thumbnail for Health and environmental effects of battery electric cars
    Electric cars damage people’s health and the environment less than similar sized internal combustion engine cars. While aspects of their production can...
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