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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    American Airlines Flight 191 (category Airliner accidents and incidents involving in-flight engine separations)
    rotation, engine number one (the left engine) separated from the left wing, flipping over the top of the wing and landing on the runway. As the engine separated...
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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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    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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    The 2.2 and 2.5, also known as the Trenton Engine due to their manufacturing location, are a family of overhead cam inline-4 engines developed by Chrysler...
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