In American television in 2018, notable events included television show finales, cancellations and information about controversies and carriage disputes...
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Car (redirect from Self-rolling carriage)
Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced horse-drawn carriages. In Europe and other parts of the world, demand for automobiles did not...
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George Daniels (watchmaker) (category Masters of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers)
considered by some to be one of the best in the world in the field of luxury mechanical watches and timepieces during his lifetime. He was a watchmaker who all...
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Ideal Toy Company was an American toy company founded by Morris Michtom and his wife, Rose. During the post–World War II baby boom era, Ideal became the...
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American Motors Corporation (AMC; commonly referred to as American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator...
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History of the automobile (category Use American English from April 2023)
medieval times. In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage. In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created by Ferdinand...
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Orthodox monk-scribe and horologist who invented and built the first mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404. Friar Paulus Almanus (c. 1475), German...
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Automotive industry in the United States (redirect from American car companies)
railroad, waterways, or carriages. Roads were mostly dirt and hard to travel, particularly in bad weather. The League of American Wheelmen maintained and...
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (category Use American English from April 2023)
the company that supplied the snakes and bugs for the previous films. Within five months, 5,000 rats had been bred for the sequence; 1,000 mechanical rats...
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Richard Trevithick (section London Steam Carriage)
Cornwall. For a time he was a neighbour of William Murdoch, the steam carriage pioneer, and would have been influenced by Murdoch’s experiments with steam-powered...
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Lincoln Motor Company, or simply Lincoln, is the luxury vehicle division of American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company. Marketed among the top...
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American Civil War prison camps Cabinet of the Confederate States of America Commemoration of the American Civil War Commemoration of the American Civil...
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channels; but also significant cable/satellite carriage disputes. 2010 in the United States List of American films of 2010 Stucka, Mike (October 29, 2009)...
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derail. Tilting trains are designed to counteract this by tilting the carriages towards the inside of the curve, thus compensating for the g-force. The...
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Great Western Railway (redirect from Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company)
pass the Railway Regulation Act 1844, requiring railway companies to provide better carriages for passengers. The next section, from Reading to Steventon...
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Routledge Hill, "Mechanical Engineering in the Medieval Near East", Scientific American, May 1991, pp. 64–9 (cf. Donald Routledge Hill, Mechanical Engineering...
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Business: of American Railroad History," in Klein, Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life (1994) pp 166–86 Grant, H. Roger, ed. Railroads...
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Schlegel International (redirect from Schlegel (company))
horse-drawn buggies. For many years the company advertised its product line as "carriage, basket and dress trimmings". The company moved into supplying textile trimmings...
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pressure lubrication. Realising the enormous potential of the horseless carriage and using a gift of £3,000 from Sir John Wolfe-Barry, R. W. Maudslay left...
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as a Driving Brake Van (33115, reclassified as NZ under TOPS), and six carriages from Class 438 (4TC) multiple units 8007, 8023 and 8028. An extra power...
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History of the electric vehicle (redirect from Electric carriage)
Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s...
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Mercedes-Benz (category Defence companies of Germany)
the 1894 Paris–Rouen, where Émile Roger finished 14th in 10 hours 1 minute. Throughout its long history, the company has been involved in a range of motorsport...
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referred to the car as a "Daimler Motor Carriage". Later in 1895 Simms announced plans to form The Daimler Motor Company Limited and to build a brand-new factory...
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Buick (redirect from Buick Motor Company)
Josiah Dallas Dort, of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, which by 1904 was the largest carriage-making company in the country and one of the largest in...
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vehicles by specific companies. They are often located on properties offering enough room to have buildings housing a showroom, mechanical service, and body...
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successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer. It could be used to add and subtract, and with a moveable carriage the operator could...
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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (category Railway companies established in 1846)
first-class carriages were attached. A new train was built in 1888: three Pullmans were shipped over in parts from the Pullman Palace Car Company in America, and...
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Springfield Armory (redirect from American arsenal)
established "The Arsenal at Springfield" to manufacture cartridges and gun carriages for the war effort. During the Revolution, the arsenal stored muskets...
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Blunderbuss (category American Civil War weapons)
Royal armories Craven museum Edward Henry Knight (1876). Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. Hurd and Houghton. Henry Mayhew (1855). "Away with the...
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Niagara Falls (redirect from Roger Woodward (Niagara Falls))
riverbed and mechanically bolted and strengthened any faults they found; faults that would, if left untreated, have hastened the retreat of American Falls....
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