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Example sentences for "high speeds"

  • The cone is turned inside as well as outside, so as to be in balance at high speeds.

  • The indicator rigging that gives the best results at high speeds is a plain reducing lever like that first described, provided at the lower end with a slot that receives a stud, screwed into the cross head.

  • At high speeds it will be diminished by the interposition of air between the belt and pulley surface, and from the centrifugal force generated by the passage of the belt around the pulley.

  • The greater width of base for the carriages to rest on gave increased steadiness and smoothness of motion, particularly at high speeds.

  • So heavily at high speeds on steep gradients is the performance of a locomotive taxed by the resistance due to its own dead weight.

  • The continuous system of permanent way is best adapted to high speeds (p.

  • With machines built lightly, and subjected to heavy strains when at high speeds, it is vital that the inspection of such craft, that the examination of every detail of them, should be carried out in a spirit of the greatest care.

  • That such maps should be bold in their design, and free from a mass of small details, is very necessary when it is remembered that the aviator, passing through the air at high speeds, has no time for a leisurely inspection of his map.

  • To what do you attribute the circumstance of a better vacuum being got at low speeds than at high speeds?

  • To avoid the difficulty or impossibility of holding the head up to the wind at high speeds, an empennage or feathering tail is a feature of all present balloons.

  • Better altitude control will be attained with better fabrics and the use of plane fin surfaces at high speeds.

  • Envelopes must be so built structurally as to resist deformation at high speeds, without having any greatly increased weight.

  • The spring must be weak enough to allow the valve to open when the suction is light, and must be of sufficient strength to close it in time at high speeds.

  • Airship motors, as a rule, must operate constantly at high speeds in order to obtain a maximum power delivery with a minimum piston displacement.

  • Even this height might not be sufficient to maintain the proper volume of gasoline to the carburetor at high speeds.

  • The auxiliary air source serves the purpose that means should be provided to supply more than the ordinary amount of air, when running at high speeds.

  • While it might work satisfactorily at low speeds it would be entirely inefficient at high speeds.

  • This gives a much quicker opening than would be the case if one shell stood still while the other moved downward, and it is because the slots approach each other from opposite directions that this motor can be run efficiently at high speeds.

  • In order that the motor car power plant shall be light in weight and occupy but a small amount of space, the power must be transmitted at high speeds.

  • If a valve seems sluggish in its action at high speeds of the motor, it is possible that its spring has become somewhat weakened.

  • Every rail, with its fastenings, must be complete, to prevent risk of accident, and the road must be kept regularly ballasted up to the level to diminish the jolting of vehicles passing over it at high speeds.

  • To bear the load of heavy engines run at high speeds, a much stronger and heavier road was found necessary; and shortly after the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester line, it was entirely relaid with stronger materials.

  • Whenever you put passenger-trains on a line, all the other trains must be run at high speeds to keep out of their way.

  • Whenever you put passenger trains on a line, all the other trains must be run at high speeds to keep out of their way.

  • Every rail with its fastenings must be complete, to prevent risk of accident; and the road must be kept regularly ballasted up to the level, to diminish the jolting of vehicles passing over it at high speeds.


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