These Steel-Blues, as you call them, put traction beams on us and started tugging us toward the asteroid.
They let go the traction beams and tried to get away.
It is transported in four pieces, each part being dragged by three traction engines on caterpillar wheels, a thirteenth and larger engine going ahead to test the road and to assist each section in going up hills.
Those monstrous behemoths of ordnance could only crawl, even when dragged by thirteen traction engines, and they were needed at Namur, which the Germans rightly expected would be defended by the French Army and would be a harder nut to crack.
So it was a rather weary and half frozen set of travelers who stiffly got off the traction line a couple of blocks from their own house.
But just then the traction came along so Mary Jane didn’t have a chance to explain her plan of bringing alligators home to Doris, which was perhaps just as well, for Mr. Merrill had plenty to think of as it was.
Contraction of muscles also tends to exerttraction upon a bone so fractured, resulting in a lateral approximation of the diaphysis and thus preventing union because the broken surfaces are not in proper contact.
Because of the traction which is exerted by the deep flexor tendon (perforans), as it attaches to the solar surface of the distal phalanx, this rotation is facilitated.
Pain is increased by manual tension of the parts which is done by grasping the toe of the foot and exertingtraction on the flexor apparatus.
This structure serves to bind the tibial tarsal (calcis) bone to the metatarsus; traction exerted upon its summit by the tendo Achillis is great when animals run, jump or rear and also at heavy pulling.
When the patella is situated upon the inner trochlear rim, the tibia must be extended because of the traction exerted by the straight ligaments.
Traction is exerted in the same direction from the acetabulum that the head of the femur is situated and by pressing over the joint, the displaced bone may be returned in position.
If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible.
A traction transport arrived and the men began hoisting their kit bags into the two large vans that constituted this traction outfit.
We stood about on the road waiting for another traction engine and waggons to get our kits carried for us.
About an hour before we came to our camp we ran full tilt into a traction train and I commandeered it at once.
A Traction Ditcher at Work Digging Trench for Tile.
Everything went well until I encountered several traction engines in active operation and a number of automobiles.
It will be remembered that the Demeny principle consists especially in the avoiding of traction upon the perforated part of the band, which is the portion that always presents the most fragility.
The Golf Club has a nine-hole course, situated on the rising ground of eighty acres opposite the traction station.
At any rate, he succeeded, while Mr. Appleyard has now passed on and the traction business is about gone.
Each gun was transported in several parts, hauled by tractionengines and forty horses.
Their application in the near future to traction may, I think, be entirely disregarded.
A serious inconvenience to the use of batteries in traction work is the necessary presence of the liquid in the jars.
The application of secondary or storage batteries to electrical traction has been accomplished in a number of cities, with a varying amount of success.
Street traction ceased on some lines at eight o'clock; on all lines at nine, though arrangements were made for a few cars to run when the playing theaters closed.
Electric street tractionshared the fate of the railroads.
Summer time" meant the saving each day of one hour's consumption of fuel in city traction and lighting street, house, and shop.
For this purpose traction plows had been brought along and whole country sites had been torn up.
The almost universal adoption of electrical traction in towns has not led to the abandonment of the breeding of horses to the extent that was at one time anticipated.
The first type consists of a traction engine with a ladder at the rear that drops down into the trench.
For ordinary farming purposes speed is not essential, but the possibility of rapid travel with tread-belt traction was demonstrated in the World War when small “tanks” were built which could run at the rate of twelve miles per hour.
The traction is exceedingly great because the belt is broad and long, giving it a large gripping surface.
The real father of steam traction was Richard Trevithic, of Camborne, Cornwall, whose first steam carriage, built in 1801, carried eight passengers.
To increase the traction or the adhesion of the locomotive to the track it is provided with a number of driving wheels.
One peculiar form of walking traction used by a drag-line excavator was described in Chapter XIII.
Older cows, for example, disliked the noise of the electric milking machines, and Wilson McNair wrote that horses were generally scared of traction engines with their hissing steam, etc.
Wilson McNair described these cumbersome and sometimes dangerous machines this way: The thresher was run and pulled by a traction engine.
This zone seemed ever to contract and all The frame with momentary spasms heaved In the strangling traction which did never cease.
When these fine roads become the possession of a country light tractionengines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines.
The time for short rations, long marches and carefullest scrutiny of detail comes when the men are dependent on their own traction efforts.
This form of motor tractionhad been tested on several occasions; in 1908 at Lauteret in the Alps, with Dr.
Now it was the snakelike movements of what appeared to be a new army heading toward the front, accompanied by a long line of big guns that were drawn by traction engines.
Then again it would be crowded with all manner of vehicles, and marching troops heading toward the front, returning wounded, and artillery being dragged laboriously along, either with sturdy horses or powerful traction engines.
The bonds were a part of the missing traction bonds from the Traders' Bank!
That is why, also, Mr. Belmont used the funds of the traction company of which he is president to support the Civic Federation, which is an organization specially designed to fool and mislead the wage-earners of America.
Certain simplifications in the use of single-phase alternating currents in traction motors have increased the number of roads using a system of alternating-current power supply.
