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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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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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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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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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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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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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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locomotive engine Spacecraft propulsion engines such as Rocket engine Traction engine Aircraft engine Automobile engine replacement Electric motor Engine cooling...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marine propulsion (redirect from Marine diesel engine)
are propelled by mechanical systems consisting of an electric motor or internal combustion engine driving a propeller, or less frequently, in pump-jets...
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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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Ion thruster (redirect from Ion engine)
An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive...
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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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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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Gas turbine (redirect from Gas-Turbine Engine)
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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Diesel locomotive (redirect from Diesel-electric locomotive)
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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the engine room may be situated mid-ship, such as on vessels built from 1900 to the 1960s, or forward and even high, such as on diesel-electric vessels...
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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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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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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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Locomotive (redirect from Railway engine)
vertical petrol engine, with a two speed mechanical gearbox. In 1903, the Hungarian Weitzer railmotor was the world's first petrol electric locomotive. Diesel...
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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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