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    A hit-and-miss engine or Hit 'N' Miss is a type of stationary internal combustion engine that is controlled by a governor to only fire at a set speed....
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  • Sevigny Hit-and-miss engine, a type of internal combustion engine "Hit and Miss", a 1960 song by The John Barry Seven plus Four Hits and Misses (disambiguation)...
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  • The most well known headless engines are the Fairbanks-Morse Z and the Witte Headless hit and miss engine Monobloc engine Goodsell, Don (2016-06-27). Dictionary...
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    engines. These include: Stationary steam engine Hit and miss engine Hot bulb engine Hot tube engine Stationary engines had a wide range of applications but...
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    the tension on the spring is decreasing. Regulator Servomechanism Hit and miss engine Centrifugal governor Bennett, Stuart (1992). A history of control...
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    The Witte Iron Works was a maker of hit and miss engines. The company was started in 1870 by August Witte in Kansas City. His son Ed Witte built the company's...
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    engine centrifugal governor is used as a metaphor for "constant speed" (the speed of light) . Cataract (beam engine) Centrifugal switch Hit and miss engine...
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    Harvester hit-and-miss engine called the Beast and a 1940s Ford tractor called Mickey Mouse. All run (including the elevator's "leg") and in 2016 the...
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    of an ignitor on early-1900s gasoline engines, generally flywheel engines, hit-and-miss engines, and other engines of that era. In modern electronic terms...
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  • used in the mine scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Guests also walk by a noisy "hit-and-miss" engine/generator set piece, which appears to...
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    internal combustion engines, such as hit-and-miss engines and, later, stationary and portable industrial versions of car and truck engines, either for belt...
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  • Kerosene (section Engines)
    and hit-and-miss engines. A petrol-paraffin engine would start on gasoline, then switch over to kerosene once the engine warmed up. On some engines,...
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  • Variable displacement (category Engine technology)
    variable-displacement engine is the hit and miss engine, developed in the late 19th century. These single-cylinder stationary engines had a centrifugal governor...
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    pump several wells at the same time with one engine. A 20 horsepower (15 kW), Olin hit-and-miss engine turns an eccentric gear connected to many rod...
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  • has tons of unusual oversize treasures like a McCormick-Deering hit-and-miss engine. A great lead gives the guys first crack at a treasure-packed farmyard...
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    Manufacturers: Ottawa Among the first engine-powered drag saw companies. Saws used a four-cycle hit 'n miss engine usually equipped with an angled water-hopper...
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    crafts, antique collections, "hit and miss" engines, entertainment, food, and demonstrations of 19th century games and farming practices. John Blue Complex...
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  • Nvidia OptiX (OptiX Application Acceleration Engine) is a ray tracing API that was first developed around 2009. The computations are offloaded to the GPUs...
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  • referred to as the Hit or Miss method because the engine mis-fires (for lack of fuel-mixture) on those power-strokes where the engine is running faster...
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    kamikazes in quick succession: at 07:20, a twin-engine bomber hit the water 20 yards (18 m) near the cruiser and skidded to connect with the ship's port flank...
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  • including The Hit and Miss Engines, Doug Cote, Liv Carrow, Crazy and the Brains and Father, Son and Holy Smokes, performed across the US, Canada, and various...
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    mixture and even farm machinery (hit-and-miss engines) as well as cosmetics. Rawleigh also distributed spices such as vanilla, peppermint and many others...
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  • combustion engines and controlled remotely from a shore station through spooled wire unwound behind the boat. The wire was 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and the...
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    Bing) is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search...
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  • The Simpsons: Hit & Run is a 2003 action-adventure game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is based on the...
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    Cache (computing) (redirect from Cache hit)
    elsewhere. A cache hit occurs when the requested data can be found in a cache, while a cache miss occurs when it cannot. Cache hits are served by reading...
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  • 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash (category Accidents and incidents involving military aircraft)
    anniversary of the crash, another aircraft narrowly missed striking the building. The unidentified twin-engine plane, described as bearing no military insignia...
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  • RE Engine, also known as Reach for the Moon Engine, is a video game engine created by Capcom. Originally designed for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, it has...
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  • racing car engines built by Engine Developments Ltd., a company founded in 1971 by John Judd and Jack Brabham in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Engine Developments...
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  • Rolls-Royce Merlin alternative uses (category Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines)
    Rolls-Royce Merlin, although designed as an aero engine, was used in other applications both on land and at sea. A derivative called the Meteor was developed...
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