query: Rotary engines used to be made by whom?

title: Rotary engine

text: maintained, to provide smooth running. Rotary engines with an even number of cylinders were mostly of the "two row" type. Most rotary engines were arranged with the cylinders pointing outwards from a single crankshaft, in the same general form as a radial, but there were also rotary boxer engines and even one-cylinder rotaries. Three key factors contributed to the rotary engine's success at the time: Engine designers had always been aware of the many limitations of the rotary engine so when the static style engines became more reliable and gave better specific weights and fuel consumption, the days of the

title: Rotary engine

text: production Adams-Farwell cars with first the 3-cylinder, then very shortly thereafter 5-cylinder rotary engines later in 1906, as another early American automaker utilizing rotary engines expressly manufactured for automotive use. Emil Berliner sponsored its development of the 5-cylinder Adams-Farwell rotary engine design concept as a lightweight power unit for his unsuccessful helicopter experiments. Adams-Farwell engines later powered fixed-wing aircraft in the US after 1910. It has also been asserted that the Gnôme design was derived from the Adams-Farwell, since an Adams-Farwell car is reported to have been demonstrated to the French Army in 1904. In contrast to the later Gnôme

title: Rotary engine

text: on the power of its twinned M-2 rotary engines. Although rotary engines were mostly used in aircraft, a few cars and motorcycles were built with rotary engines. Perhaps the first was the Millet motorcycle of 1892. A famous motorcycle, winning many races, was the Megola, which had a rotary engine inside the front wheel. Another motorcycle with a rotary engine was Charles Redrup's 1912 Redrup Radial, which was a three-cylinder 303 cc rotary engine fitted to a number of motorcycles by Redrup. In 1904 the Barry engine, also designed by Redrup, was built in Wales: a rotating 2-cylinder boxer engine

title: Rotary engine

text: weighing 6.5 kg was mounted inside a motorcycle frame. The early-1920s German Megola motorcycle used a five-cylinder rotary engine within its front wheel design. In the 1940s Cyril Pullin developed the Powerwheel, a wheel with a rotating one-cylinder engine, clutch and drum brake inside the hub, but it never entered production. Cars with rotary engines were built by American companies Adams-Farwell, Bailey, Balzer and Intrepid, amongst others. Besides the configuration of cylinders moving around a fixed crankshaft, several different engine designs are also called "rotary engines". The most notable pistonless rotary engine, the Wankel rotary engine has been used by

title: Rotary engine

text: least in part to provide some use for the Oberursel factory's backlog of otherwise redundant Ur.II engines, themselves clones of the Le Rhône 9J rotary. Because of the Allied blockade of shipping, the Germans were increasingly unable to obtain the castor oil necessary to properly lubricate their rotary engines. Substitutes were never entirely satisfactory - causing increased running temperatures and reduced engine life. By the time the war ended, the rotary engine had become obsolete, and it disappeared from use quite quickly. The British Royal Air Force probably used rotary engines for longer than most other operators. The RAF's standard

title: To Be, To Be, Ten made To Be

text: To Be, To Be, Ten made To Be "To Be, to Be, Ten Made to Be" is Tackey & Tsubasa's debut single under the Avex Trax label. This is the first retail single for their 2wenty 2wo album. "To Be, to Be, Ten Made to Be" is the debut single released by singer duo Tackey & Tsubasa. The a-side song "Sotsugyou:Sayonara wa Ashita no Tameni" was used as the insert song for the anime InuYasha on episode 124, only the version of the song used was not the same version that is on this single. It was also used as

title: Pistonless rotary engine

text: Pistonless rotary engine A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does, but instead uses one or more rotors, sometimes called rotary pistons. An example of a pistonless rotary engine is the Wankel engine. The term rotary combustion engine has been suggested as an alternative name for these engines to distinguish them from early (generally up to the early 1920s) aircraft engines and motorcycle engines also known as "rotary engines". However, both continue to be called "rotary engines" and only the context determines which type is meant. The

title: Rotary feeder

text: Rotary feeder Rotary feeders, also known as rotary airlocks or rotary valves, are commonly used in industrial and agricultural applications as a component in a bulk or specialty material handling system. Rotary feeders are primarily used for discharge of bulk solid material from hoppers/bins, receivers, and cyclones into a pressure or vacuum-driven pneumatic conveying system. Components of a rotary feeder include a rotor shaft, housing, head plates, and packing seals and bearings. Rotors have large vanes cast or welded on and are typically driven by small internal combustion engines or electric motors. Rotary airlock feeders have wide application in industry

title: To Be, To Be, Ten made To Be

text: has been certified gold for shipments of over 100,000 by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. To Be, To Be, Ten made To Be "To Be, to Be, Ten Made to Be" is Tackey & Tsubasa's debut single under the Avex Trax label. This is the first retail single for their 2wenty 2wo album. "To Be, to Be, Ten Made to Be" is the debut single released by singer duo Tackey & Tsubasa. The a-side song "Sotsugyou:Sayonara wa Ashita no Tameni" was used as the insert song for the anime InuYasha on episode 124, only the version of the song

title: Rotary valve

text: design and continues to use rotary intake valves in the 532's successor, the current-production Rotax 582. US company "Coates International Ltd" has developed a spherical rotary valve for internal combustion engines which replaces the poppet valve system. This particular design is four-stroke, with the rotary valves operated by overhead shafts in lieu of overhead camshafts (i.e. in line with a bank of cylinders). The first sale of such an engine was part of a natural gas engine-generator. Rotary valves are potentially highly suitable for high-revving engines, such as those used in racing sportscars and F1 racing cars, on which traditional

title: Rotary engine

text: extent of the exhaust valves using levers acting on the valve tappet rollers, a system later abandoned due to valves burning. The weight of the Monosoupape was slightly less than the earlier two-valve engines, and it used less lubricating oil. The 100 hp Monosoupape was built with 9 cylinders, and developed its rated power at 1,200 rpm. The later 160 hp nine-cylinder Gnome 9N rotary engine used the Monosoupape valve design while adding the safety factor of a dual ignition system, and was the last known rotary engine design to use such a cylinder head valving format. Rotary engines produced

title: Clerget aircraft engines

text: ignition system was either switched on or off to provide a rudimentary form of engine speed control, the Clerget featured a throttle. The Bentley BR1 and Bentley BR2 rotaries were designed as improvements of the Clerget, while sharing some of the earlier engine's distinctive design features. The Clerget rotary engines were air-cooled with either seven, nine or eleven cylinders. They were fitted with a double thrust ball race, which enabled them to be used either as a pusher or as a tractor engine. The engines worked on a four-stroke cycle. The chief points of difference from other rotary engines were:

title: Rotary valve

text: the "National Engine Company Ltd" advertised its rotary valve engine for use in early aircraft, at a time when poppet valves were prone to failure by sticking or burning. From the 1930s, Frank Aspin developed a design with a rotary valve that rotated on the same axis as the cylinder bore, but with limited success. Kawasaki and others have also used rotary valves in two-stroke motorcycle engines, where the arrangement helps to prevent reverse flow back into the intake port during the compression stroke. Austrian engine manufacturer Rotax used rotary intake valves in their now out-of-production Rotax 532 two-stroke engine

title: Used to Be My Girl

text: Used to Be My Girl "Used to Be My Girl" is a single by Brian McKnight, released in 2006 from "Ten". It was written and produced by Tim & Bob. The song peaked at number 25 on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The album serves the first official single on October 17, 2006. The song, as McKnight states in the beginning, "is not another love song". Instead, the song's lyrics expresses dismay at what he perceives to be another man's excessive pride in his relationship with an attractive girlfriend; with whom the songwriter used to have a relationship. McKnight's

title: Rotary engine

text: to attempt their first hard right turns only at altitudes above . The Camel's most famous German foe, the Fokker Dr.I triplane, also used a rotary engine, usually the Oberursel Ur.II clone of the French-built Le Rhone 9J 110 hp powerplant. Even before the First World War, attempts were made to overcome the inertia problem of rotary engines. As early as 1906 Charles Benjamin Redrup had demonstrated to the Royal Flying Corps at Hendon a 'Reactionless' engine in which the crankshaft rotated in one direction and the cylinder block in the opposite direction, each one driving a propeller. A later

title: Rotary engine

text: post-war fighter, the Sopwith Snipe, used the Bentley BR2 rotary as the most powerful (at some ) rotary engine ever built by the Allies of World War I. The standard RAF training aircraft of the early post-war years, the 1914-origin Avro 504K, had a universal mounting to allow the use of several different types of low powered rotary, of which there was a large surplus supply. Similarly, the Swedish FVM Ö1 Tummelisa advanced training aircraft, fitted with a Le-Rhone-Thulin rotary engine, served until the mid thirties. Designers had to balance the cheapness of war-surplus engines against their poor fuel efficiency

title: Clerget aircraft engines

text: Clerget aircraft engines Clerget was the name given to a series of early rotary aircraft engine types of the World War I era that were designed by Pierre Clerget. Manufactured in France by Clerget-Blin and in Great Britain by Gwynnes Limited they were used on such aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Vickers Gunbus. In the 1920s Pierre Clerget turned his attention to diesel radial engines and finally produced a H-16 engine before he died in 1943. What distinguished the Clerget rotary engine from its rivals (Gnome and Le Rhône) was that the Clerget had normal intake and exhaust valves

title: Rotary hammer

text: Rotary hammers can be used for "doweling" (repetitive drilling of large rebar anchor holes), and drilling through-holes in concrete and masonry walls. The hammering action helps break up the masonry so that it can be removed by the drill bit's flutes. Apart from their main function of drilling concrete, the rotary action can be switched off and use is made of just the percussive force. Chisel and point accessories are used for small chipping jobs. Rotary hammers have such force that the usual masonry bits are no longer adequate. Their smooth shanks would be pounded loose from the tool's chuck

title: Rotary engine

text: Balzer produced a 3-cylinder, rotary engined car in 1894, then later became involved in Langley's "Aerodrome" attempts, which bankrupted him while he tried to make much larger versions of his engines. Balzer's rotary engine was later converted to static radial operation by Langley's assistant, Charles M. Manly, creating the notable Manly-Balzer engine. The famous De Dion-Bouton company produced an experimental 4-cylinder rotary engine in 1899. Though intended for aviation use, it was not fitted to any aircraft. The Adams-Farwell firm's automobiles, with the firm's first rolling prototypes using 3-cylinder rotary engines designed by Fay Oliver Farwell in 1898, led to

title: Rotary engine

text: 1888, so must be considered the pioneer of the internal combustion rotary engine. A machine powered by his engine took part in the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race of 1895 and the system was put into production by Darracq and Company London in 1900. Lawrence Hargrave first developed a rotary engine in 1889 using compressed air, intending to use it in powered flight. Materials weight and lack of quality machining prevented it becoming an effective power unit. Stephen M. Balzer of New York, a former watchmaker, constructed rotary engines in the 1890s. He was interested in the rotary layout for two main reasons:

title: Rotary engine

text: rotary engine were numbered. The late WWI Bentley BR2, as the largest and most powerful rotary engine, had reached a point beyond which this type of engine could not be further developed, and it was the last of its kind to be adopted into RAF service. It is often asserted that rotary engines had no throttle and hence power could only be reduced by intermittently cutting the ignition using a "blip" switch. This was almost literally true of the "Monosoupape" (single valve) type, which took most of the air into the cylinder through the exhaust valve, which remained open for

title: Be Used To

text: Shan Bo Yu Zhu Li Ye), which features Malaysian Mandopop artist Gary Chaw. The tracks "長衣袖" (Chang Yi Xiu) and "幸福調味" (Xing Fu Tiao Wei) were composed by Taiwanese singer-songwriter David Tao. Three editions of the album were released by Rock Records: Be Used To Be Used To () is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Genie Chuo's () second Mandarin studio album. It was released by Rock Records on 27 October 2006 Two more editions were released: "Be Used To (Celebration Edition)" (習慣 慶功/感謝超值版), on 8 December 2006, with an AVCD containing three music videos and two remix tracks and "Be Used

title: Rotary valve

text: run much higher compression ratios than even other rotary valve engines due to a significant but undisclosed new cooling method of the combustion chamber and the ability to eliminate the throttle completely, making it vastly more economical at lower engine speeds, so it is claimed. UK company "RCV Engines Ltd" uses rotating cylinder liner technology as a specialized form of rotary valve in some of their four-stroke model engine and small-engine line-up. RCV also use horizontal and vertical rotary valves in four-stroke engines in their current range of engines. RCV have developed a 125cc rotating cylinder liner engine, incorporating a

title: Used to Be

text: album. Sputnikmusic praised Legrand's vocal performance on the song, stating it is perhaps her strongest one. The music video for "Used to Be" was directed by Matt Amato. It was uploaded to Carpark Records' YouTube channel on November 19, 2008. "Side A" "Side B" Beach House Additional Used to Be "Used to Be" is a song by American dream pop band Beach House from their third studio album, "Teen Dream". It was written by lead vocalist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally and produced by them along with Chris Coady. The song was released on October 21, 2008

title: Be Used To

text: Be Used To Be Used To () is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Genie Chuo's () second Mandarin studio album. It was released by Rock Records on 27 October 2006 Two more editions were released: "Be Used To (Celebration Edition)" (習慣 慶功/感謝超值版), on 8 December 2006, with an AVCD containing three music videos and two remix tracks and "Be Used To (Thank You Edition)" (習慣 真心感謝超值版), on 15 February 2007 with a bonus VCD containing five music videos and five karaoke tracks. The album features the opening and ending theme songs for Taiwanese drama "Love Queen", "Super No. 1" and "梁山伯與茱麗葉" (Liang

title: Used to Be

text: Used to Be "Used to Be" is a song by American dream pop band Beach House from their third studio album, "Teen Dream". It was written by lead vocalist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally and produced by them along with Chris Coady. The song was released on October 21, 2008 as the album's lead single and features a B-side of a different version of "Apple Orchard", a song which featured on their self-titled debut album. The single version released in 2008 is included on the band's "B-Sides and Rarities" compilation album, released on June 30, 2017. "Used

title: Rotary Rocket

text: Calculations showed that the helicopter blades modestly increased the effective specific impulse ("I") by approximately 20–30 seconds, essentially only carrying the blades into orbit "for free". Thus, there was no overall gain from this method during ascent. However, the blades could be used to soft land the vehicle, so its landing system carried no additional cost. One problem found during research at Rotary was that once the vehicle left the atmosphere additional thrust would be necessary. Thus multiple engines would be needed at the base as well as at the rotor tips. This initial version of the Roton had been

title: Land Rover engines

text: allow the same transmission unit to be used on all vehicles. Layout: 4-cylinder, in-line Block/head: Cast iron/cast iron Valves: OHV, chain drive camshaft, push-rod operated Capacity: Bore × stroke: Compression ratio: 22.5:1 Fuel injection: CAV DPA rotary pump and CAV Pintaux injectors Power: @ 3,500 rpm Torque: @ 2,000 rpm Production: 1957–1962 Used in: Land Rover Series I and Series II The Series II Land Rover launched in 1958 was larger, heavier and more complex than the original, and there was an ever-present need for higher powered engines. Also, the Rover petrol engines in use at the time, with the

title: Rotary engine

text: in lieu of a crankshaft. A later version abandoned the cam altogether and used three coupled crankshafts. By 1930 the Soviet helicopter pioneers, Boris N. Yuriev and Alexei M. Cheremukhin, both employed by "Tsentralniy Aerogidrodinamicheskiy Institut" (TsAGI, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute), constructed one of the first practical single-lift rotor machines with their TsAGI 1-EA single rotor helicopter, powered by two Soviet-designed and built M-2 rotary engines, themselves up-rated copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine of World War I. The TsAGI 1-EA set an unofficial altitude record of 605 meters (1,985 ft) with Cheremukhin piloting it on 14 August 1932

title: Better Than I Used to Be

text: Rolling Stone" featuring Jamey Johnson was also included on the album. A music video was made for "Better Than I Used to Be" and was directed by David Abbott. "Better Than I Used to Be" was later covered by Tim McGraw on his 2012 album "Emotional Traffic". "Better Than I Used to Be" generated positive reviews overall. Giving the album three and a half stars out of five, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock said that "Better Than I Used To Be" finds Sammy Kershaw in a great place." and states that "with 11 strong tunes "Better Than I Used To Be"

title: Rotary cutter

text: Rotary cutter A rotary cutter is a tool generally used by quilters to cut fabric. It consists of a handle with a circular blade that rotates, thus the tool's name. Rotary cutter blades are very sharp, can be resharpened, and are available in different sizes: usually smaller blades are used to cut small curves, while larger blades are used to cut to straight lines and broad curves. Several layers of fabric can be cut simultaneously with a sharp (fresh) blade, making it easier to cut out patchwork pieces of the same shape and size than with scissors. Quilters use rotary

title: General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine

text: badge and Wankel crest on the rear quarter panel. They stated the Vega-rotary would be sold as a package with performance items, including mag-styled wheels, radial tires, and rally stripes. The Wankel had so far proven more reliable than four, six, and eight-cylinder engines – GM-rotary engines were run up to showing only minimal wear, and the engine's fewer moving parts assured its reliability. The final design General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine (GMRCE) was fixed when responsibility for the power plant's manufacture was turned over to General Motors Hydra Matic Division in August 1972 – two rotors displacing , twin

title: Rotary engine

text: Rotary engine The rotary engine is an early type of internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration, in which the crankshaft remained stationary in operation, with the entire crankcase and its attached cylinders rotating around it as a unit. Its main application was in aviation, although it also saw use before its primary aviation role, in a few early motorcycles and automobiles. This type of engine was widely used as an alternative to conventional inline engines (straight or V) during World War I and the years immediately preceding that conflict.

title: Rotary union

text: is called converting. Rotary unions are used in all types of converting for water, steam, thermal oil, air or hydraulics. Rotary unions may be used to transmit coolant, cutting oil, MQL, pressurized air in a bearingless or bearing supported configuration. Besides coolant delivery, rotary unions are used for chucking, tool sensing, rotary index table and other machine tool applications. Electro-hydraulic equipment used in mining operations employ rotary unions including shuttle cars and coal cars, drill heads, backhoes, clam shell cranes and drag lines. In addition, boom hoists, retrieving drums and bucket drum clutches each require rotary unions. Drilling rigs (oil

title: Rotary engine

text: Louis was joined by his brother Laurent who designed a rotary engine specifically for aircraft use, using Gnom engine cylinders. The brothers' first experimental engine is said to have been a 5-cylinder model that developed , and was a radial rather than rotary engine, but no photographs survive of the five-cylinder experimental model. The Seguin brothers then turned to rotary engines in the interests of better cooling, and the world's first production rotary engine, the 7-cylinder, air-cooled "Omega" was shown at the 1908 Paris automobile show. The first Gnome Omega built still exists, and is now in the collection of

title: Rotary cutter

text: be locked to prevent injury. Rotary cutter A rotary cutter is a tool generally used by quilters to cut fabric. It consists of a handle with a circular blade that rotates, thus the tool's name. Rotary cutter blades are very sharp, can be resharpened, and are available in different sizes: usually smaller blades are used to cut small curves, while larger blades are used to cut to straight lines and broad curves. Several layers of fabric can be cut simultaneously with a sharp (fresh) blade, making it easier to cut out patchwork pieces of the same shape and size than

title: Rotary converter

text: used to balance the DC neutral wire. Rotary converter A rotary converter is a type of electrical machine which acts as a mechanical rectifier, inverter or frequency converter. Rotary converters were used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), or DC to AC power, before the advent of chemical or solid state power rectification and inverting. They were commonly used to provide DC power for commercial, industrial and railway electrification from an AC power source. Rotary converters are still used as frequency converters. The rotary converter can be thought of as a motor-generator, where the two machines share

title: To Be, To Be, Ten made To Be

text: Tsubasa singing in a small clearing, densely surrounded by bushes and vines. During the second chorus, the scene switches to the two standing up with a cloudy sky behind them. Also seen in the PV is a cage that, depending on the scene, either has two doves in it, or is empty. Once the instrumental is over, and the chorus is sung again, the two are seen standing up in the bush and vine area, only this time with sakura petals flying around them. Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) As of January 2004, "To Be, to Be, Ten Made to Be"

title: Used to Be

text: "Apple Orchard", a song which featured on the band's self-titled debut, recorded three years to the month before "Used to Be". It is one of the first things Scally and Legrand recorded together as Beach House. Sputnikmusic described "Used to Be" as a "jazzy hop-step," as well as stating it is "easily the record’s most upbeat song." "Consequence of Sound" said the song doesn't "only open with the sound of the drum machine, but use speed increases of the percussion to move the songs past the down-tempo slow jams Beach House usually seem stuck on." "PopMatters" said the song is

title: Rotary converter

text: Rotary converter A rotary converter is a type of electrical machine which acts as a mechanical rectifier, inverter or frequency converter. Rotary converters were used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), or DC to AC power, before the advent of chemical or solid state power rectification and inverting. They were commonly used to provide DC power for commercial, industrial and railway electrification from an AC power source. Rotary converters are still used as frequency converters. The rotary converter can be thought of as a motor-generator, where the two machines share a single rotating armature and set of

title: Rotary table

text: desired distance from the workpiece's center. This allows concentric machining operations on the workpiece. Placing the workpiece eccentrically a set distance from the center permits more complex curves to be cut. As with other setups on a vertical mill, the milling operation can be either drilling a series of concentric, and possibly equidistant holes, or face or end milling either circular or semicircular shapes and contours. A rotary table can be used: Additionally, if converted to stepper motor operation, with a CNC milling machine and a tailstock, a rotary table allows many parts to be made on a mill that

title: Pistonless rotary engine

text: basic concept of a pistonless rotary engine avoids the reciprocating motion of the piston with its inherent vibration and rotational-speed-related mechanical stress. the Wankel engine is the only successful pistonless rotary engine, but many similar concepts have been proposed and are under various stages of development. Examples of rotary engines include: Pistonless rotary engine A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does, but instead uses one or more rotors, sometimes called rotary pistons. An example of a pistonless rotary engine is the Wankel engine. The term rotary

title: Rotary union

text: fluid. Rotary unions are also heavily used in crude oil processing, the chemical industry, commercial food production, and pharmaceutical applications. Equipment used in grain harvesting including combines, tractors, grain carts and threshers employ rotary unions. Once harvested, many crops will be processed with equipment that uses rotary unions. Food processing equipment that use rotary unions include cooling conveyors, flaking mills, shredders, steam cookers, starch dryers, rotary cutters and roll-forming. Auto manufacturing is a diverse user of rotary unions for a broad range of parts or components and materials, whether machined steel, iron or aluminum, stampings, plastics, glass or paperboard. Rotary

title: Lycoming Engines

text: Lycoming Engines Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines. With a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed, air-cooled, four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines including the only FAA-certified aerobatic and helicopter piston engines on the market. The company has built more than 325,000 piston aircraft engines and powers more than half the world's general aviation fleet, both rotary and fixed wing. Lycoming is an operating division of Avco Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Textron. Lycoming dates its founding to 1845 by "Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest". However, the early history of the company (especially

title: Rotary valve

text: valve and Hagmann valve. Joseph Riedl is credited with the first use of rotary valves on brass instruments in 1832. In industry, a rotary valve is used to regulate the flow of a product, usually to reduce the flow rate to a level more suitable to the process being undertaken. Typical applications are for feeding a weighed hopper or for feeding a mill that can be clogged by the product. As part of the material exchange process, the valve is often used as a measuring or metering device. A rotary valve in the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industry is used

title: Rotary union

text: or non-roller bearings, like graphite bearings and bronze brushings, may be used in a rotary union. The bearings are always used to allow a part of the joint, either the shaft or the housing, to rotate The heart of the rotary union is the seal. The seal prevents the medium from leaking outside the rotary union while in operation. Seal types can vary from pusher-type end face mechanical seal, non-pusher type end face mechanical seal, lip seals, and o-ring seals. Most rotary unions have more than one seal. . Many rotary unions incorporate multiple ports, some of which are designed

title: Clerget aircraft engines

text: the 1920s Pierre Clerget designed static diesel radial engines, the earliest were based on his rotary designs. (1929) 100 hp (75 kW) Nine-cylinder, single row radial engine. (1937) 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine, flown in a Potez 25 biplane. Clerget's final engine design was an H-16 known as the Type Transatlantique. It developed 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) through the use of four turbochargers. Clerget aircraft engines Clerget was the name given to a series of early rotary aircraft engine types of the World War I era that were designed by Pierre Clerget. Manufactured in France by Clerget-Blin and in Great Britain

title: Rotary stage

text: Rotary stage A rotary stage is a component of a motion system used to restrict an object to a single axis of rotation. The terms rotary table or rotation stage are often used interchangeably with rotary stage. All rotary stages consist of a platform and a base, joined by some form of guide in such a way that the platform is restricted to rotation about a single axis with respect to the base. In common usage, the term rotary stage may or may not also include the mechanism by which the angular position of the platform is controlled relative to

title: Britalus rotary engine

text: the expander cylinders and pistons. Similar external combustion rotary engines have been patented by: Britalus rotary engine The Britalus rotary engine was invented in 1982 by Kenneth W. Porter, P.E., M.S.A.E, of King County, Washington. It operates on a modified Brayton cycle, but with continuous pulsed combustion, similar to that of a gas turbine. It can burn most commonly available hydrocarbon fuels and features the high compression ratio (14:1) typical of a Diesel cycle. The engine is patented, US Patent 4336686 of 1982. The main feature of the Britalus engine is an enclosed barrel-shaped cylinder block carrying compressor and expander

title: Didn't You Used to Be...

text: Didn't You Used to Be... Didn't You Used to Be... is the only album David Cassidy released on Scotti Brothers Records. The album was released in 1992. Originally titled, "Didn't You Used to be"?, is David Cassidy's ninth studio album. The album features ten tracks which are all written or co-written by David Cassidy's wife, Sue Shifrin. The song "I'll Never Stop Loving You" was recorded by Heart on a Japanese special edition bonus CD for their album "Brigade" in 1990, and the following year, by Cher on her album "Love Hurts". "I'll Never Stop Loving You" was recorded by

title: Rotary engine

text: including the German Motorenfabrik Oberursel firm who designed the original Gnom engine. Oberursel was later purchased by Fokker, whose 80 hp Gnome Lambda copy was known as the Oberursel U.0. It was not at all uncommon for French Gnôme Lambdas, as used in the earliest examples of the Bristol Scout biplane, to meet German versions, powering Fokker E.I Eindeckers in combat, from the latter half of 1915 on. The only attempts to produce twin-row rotary engines in any volume were undertaken by Gnome, with their Double Lambda fourteen-cylinder 160 hp design, and with the German Oberursel firm's early World War

title: Rotary transformer

text: supporting electronics, including the tape heads or torque sensors, must be designed to accommodate this. Rotary transformer A rotary (rotatory) transformer is a specialized transformer used to couple electrical signals between two parts that rotate in relation to each other. They may be either cylindrical or 'pancake' shaped. Slip rings can be used for the same purpose, but are subject to friction, wear, intermittent contact, and limitations on the rotational speed that can be accommodated without damage. Wear can be eliminated by using a pool of liquid mercury instead of a solid ring contact, but the toxicity and slow corrosion

title: Rotary table

text: Rotary table A rotary table is a precision work positioning device used in metalworking. It enables the operator to drill or cut work at exact intervals around a fixed (usually horizontal or vertical) axis. Some rotary tables allow the use of index plates for indexing operations, and some can also be fitted with dividing plates that enable regular work positioning at divisions for which indexing plates are not available. A rotary fixture used in this fashion is more appropriately called a dividing head (indexing head). The table shown is a manually operated type. Powered tables under the control of CNC

title: Rotary transformer

text: Rotary transformer A rotary (rotatory) transformer is a specialized transformer used to couple electrical signals between two parts that rotate in relation to each other. They may be either cylindrical or 'pancake' shaped. Slip rings can be used for the same purpose, but are subject to friction, wear, intermittent contact, and limitations on the rotational speed that can be accommodated without damage. Wear can be eliminated by using a pool of liquid mercury instead of a solid ring contact, but the toxicity and slow corrosion of mercury are problematic, and very high rotational speeds are again difficult to achieve. A

title: Didn't You Used to Be...

text: the rock band Heart and released on a 3-inch limited edition disc with the Japanese red velvet "Brigade" box set, the song was titled "Never Stop Loving You". It was later released by the EMI Japan label for the Heart compilation "Ballads: The Greatest Hits" in 1997 and with the reissue in 2001. All tracks composed by David Cassidy and Sue Shifrin; except where indicted Didn't You Used to Be... Didn't You Used to Be... is the only album David Cassidy released on Scotti Brothers Records. The album was released in 1992. Originally titled, "Didn't You Used to be"?, is

title: Rotary kiln

text: fitted, by a fan situated at the exhaust end. In preheater installations which may have a high pressure-drop, a lot of fan power may be needed, and the fan is often the largest drive in the kiln system. Exhaust gases contain dust and there may be undesirable constituents such as sulfur dioxide or hydrogen chloride. Equipment is installed to scrub these from the gas stream before passing to the atmosphere. Rotary kiln A rotary kiln is a pyroprocessing device used to raise materials to a high temperature (calcination) in a continuous process. Materials produced using rotary kilns include: They are

title: Rotary evaporator

text: Rotary evaporator A rotary evaporator (or rotavap/rotovap) is a device used in chemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle removal of solvents from samples by evaporation. When referenced in the chemistry research literature, description of the use of this technique and equipment may include the phrase "rotary evaporator", though use is often rather signaled by other language (e.g., "the sample was evaporated under reduced pressure"). Rotary evaporators are also used in molecular cooking for the preparation of distillates and extracts. A simple rotary evaporator system was invented by Lyman C. Craig. It was first commercialized by the Swiss company Büchi

title: I Used to Be Darker

text: I Used to Be Darker I Used to Be Darker is a 2013 independent drama film set and shot in Maryland, the third feature film directed by Matthew Porterfield. In July 2011, Matthew Porterfield started raising money to fund the production of "I Used to Be Darker" via Kickstarter. The project achieved its goal of $40,000 on August 13, 2011. Porterfield had already known Ned Oldham for several years before casting him as Bill, and Amy Belk went to college with Kim Taylor in the 1990s. After meeting Taylor and seeing her perform, Porterfield "knew almost immediately she had what

title: Rotary valve

text: rotating valve in the cylinder liner, for scooter applications. PGO Scooters of Taiwan were working with RCV in developing the engine for their applications. The Suzuki RG500 "Gamma" was powered by a two-stroke, rotary valve, twin crank, square four engine displacing 498 cubic centimeters. The power output was 93.7 brake horsepower (69.9 kW) at 9,500 RPM. Rotary valves are used for loading samples on columns used for liquid or gas chromatography. The valves used in these methods are usually 6-port, 2-position rotary valves. Rotary valve A rotary valve is a type of valve in which the rotation of a passage

title: I Used to Be Darker

text: assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 69, based on ten reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". "I Used to Be Darker" won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 and Matthew Porterfield won the award for Best Director at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. I Used to Be Darker I Used to Be Darker is a 2013 independent drama film set and shot in Maryland, the third feature film directed by Matthew Porterfield. In July 2011,

title: Used to Be

text: "a revelation at the album’s halfway point. Legrand sings along to the piano melody, and the mix surrounds the listener with multitracked vocals and percussion. Although the instruments are competing for space, the song does not feel overcrowded. The best development within the song is a drum shuffle that emerges from the quarter notes that have been steadily marking the tempo." "Pretty Much Amazing" called the song a "notable standout" off the album. "American Songwriter" said "Used to Be" is "a rollicking dreamboat; if ever there were a tune to listen to while coasting along in a Cadillac convertible, this

title: Lycoming Engines

text: of Honeywell Aerospace in 1999. Textron retained piston engine production in Williamsport. The aircraft piston engine prefixes are: Citations Bibliography Lycoming Engines Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines. With a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed, air-cooled, four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines including the only FAA-certified aerobatic and helicopter piston engines on the market. The company has built more than 325,000 piston aircraft engines and powers more than half the world's general aviation fleet, both rotary and fixed wing. Lycoming is an operating division of Avco Corporation, itself a subsidiary of

title: Rotary snowplow

text: are on display at Maxwell Siding In Hermiston, Oregon. Unit # 900083 is one of four steam powered rotary Snow Plows Built after World War II 900083 is the only one left in existence. The Henschel rotary steam snowplow ÖBB 986.101 is preserved nonoperational at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin in Germany. It was built in 1943. Long Island Railroad steam rotary #193 {Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, 1898}, purported to be the last surviving steam rotary plow ever used East of the Mississippi River, is displayed at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA. Alaska Railroad rotary snowplow #4, built

title: Rotary evaporator

text: when under vacuum. A leak can draw air into the apparatus and a violent reaction can occur. Rotary evaporator A rotary evaporator (or rotavap/rotovap) is a device used in chemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle removal of solvents from samples by evaporation. When referenced in the chemistry research literature, description of the use of this technique and equipment may include the phrase "rotary evaporator", though use is often rather signaled by other language (e.g., "the sample was evaporated under reduced pressure"). Rotary evaporators are also used in molecular cooking for the preparation of distillates and extracts. A simple rotary

title: Dixie Rotary Bowl

text: Dixie Rotary Bowl The Dixie Rotary Bowl was a college bowl game hosted in St. George, Utah and initiated by the St. George Rotary Club as a venue that would be presumed to be frequently used by the hometown Dixe State Junior College. From 1986 to 2005, it was a junior college bowl game sanctioned by the National Junior College Athletic Association. The bowl featured contests between top NJCAA teams from around the nation. In 2003, the bowl played host to the sanctioned NJCAA National Football Championship. The bowl transitioned to NCAA Division II from 2006 to 2008 after Dixie

title: Used to Be My Girl

text: a game", a theory that he argues is proven by her perceived inability to acknowledge his presence as he watches the new couple: "She's still thinkin' 'bout me, And I'll tell you why, She couldn't even hold her head up when you walked by" The song ends with the singer recounting and implying to the new boyfriend various intimate acts that the woman performed for him when "she was my girl". Used to Be My Girl "Used to Be My Girl" is a single by Brian McKnight, released in 2006 from "Ten". It was written and produced by Tim &

title: O.S. Engines

text: World War II, Ogawa Seisakusho expanded to produce the MAX line of engines, which won acclaim for their performance and durability. In 1976, OS pioneered the field of modern four-stroke glow plug ignition model engines with the "FS-60" 10 cm displacement exposed valve gear engine, and has been one of the top producers of four-stroke glow-plug-ignition model engines worldwide ever since. Today, O.S. Engines produces a much larger line of engines that includes the only available Wankel rotary aircraft engine, which was first introduced in 1970, in cooperation with Graupner of Germany. Since Graupner's demise in 2012, O.S. now makes

title: Dixie Rotary Bowl

text: and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. It terminated the program before the 2009 season because it could not find sponsors. Dixie Rotary Bowl The Dixie Rotary Bowl was a college bowl game hosted in St. George, Utah and initiated by the St. George Rotary Club as a venue that would be presumed to be frequently used by the hometown Dixe State Junior College. From 1986 to 2005, it was a junior college bowl game sanctioned by the National Junior College Athletic Association. The bowl featured contests between top NJCAA teams from around the nation. In 2003, the bowl played host to

title: Rotary encoder

text: to "track" the absolute position with an incremental encoder interface. Inexpensive incremental encoders are used in mechanical computer mice. Typically, two encoders are used: one to sense left-right motion and another to sense forward-backward motion. Rotary encoders with a single output (i.e. tachometers) cannot be used to sense direction of motion but are suitable for measuring speed and for measuring position when the direction of travel is constant. In certain applications they may be used to measure distance of motion (e.g. feet of movement). Analogue devices that perform a similar function include the synchro, the resolver, the rotary variable differential

title: Rotary valve

text: to dose and feed solid bulk products within the processes. Airlock type rotary valve is often used to enter or extract material from two chambers with different pressure level. The rotary valve combustion engine possesses several significant advantages over the conventional assemblies, including significantly higher compression ratios and rpm, meaning more power, a much more compact and light-weight cylinder head, and reduced complexity, meaning higher reliability and lower cost. As inlet and exhaust are usually combined special attention should be given to valve cooling to avoid engine knocking. Rotary valves have been used in several different engine designs. In Britain,

title: She Used to Be My Girl

text: her family, who shows little interest. The episode was written by Tim Long and guest starred Kim Cattrall as Chloe Talbot. It is also the last episode to be animated by Toonzone Entertainment. In its original American broadcast, ""She Used to Be My Girl"" was viewed by 10.3 million people. As of September 2nd, 2018, ""She Used To Be My Girl"" has a score of 6.4/10 on IMDb based on 821 user ratings. She Used to Be My Girl "She Used to Be My Girl" is the fourth episode in the sixteenth season of the American animated television series "The

title: Rotary converter

text: to power the remaining DC equipment from the AC supply. The self-balancing dynamo is of similar construction to the single- and two-phase rotary converter. It was commonly used to create a completely balanced three-wire 120/240-volt DC electrical supply. The AC extracted from the slip rings was fed into a transformer with a single center-tapped winding. The center-tapped winding forms the DC neutral wire. It needed to be driven by a mechanical power source, such as a steam engine, diesel engine, or electric motor. It could be considered a rotary converter used as a double current generator; the AC current was

title: Rotary dial

text: was heavier and subject to higher wear. Despite their lack of modern features, rotary phones occasionally find special uses. For instance, the anti-drug Fairlawn Coalition of the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C., persuaded the phone company to reinstall rotary-dial pay phones in the 1980s to discourage loitering by drug purchasers, since the dials could not be used to call dealers' pagers. They are also retained for authenticity in historic properties such as the U.S. Route 66 Blue Swallow Motel, which date back to the era of named exchanges and pulse dialing. A rotary dial typically features a circular construction. The

title: Rotary dial

text: Rotary dial A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange. On the rotary phone dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout so that a finger wheel may be rotated with one finger from the position of each digit to a fixed stop position, implemented by the finger stop, which is a mechanical barrier to prevent further rotation. When released at the finger stop, the

title: Rotary dial

text: by an automatic "contact-making machine", or "calling device". Further development continued during the 1890s and the early 1900s in conjunction with improvements in switching technology. Almon Brown Strowger was the first to file a patent for a rotary dial on December 21, 1891, which was awarded on November 29, 1892, as . The early rotary dials used lugs on a finger plate instead of holes, and the pulse train was generated without the control of spring action or a governor on the forward movement of the wheel, which proved to be difficult to operate correctly. On rotary dial phones smaller

title: Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be

text: Singles survey in 1964. It was included on their studio album, "Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be" (1965). Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" is a song written by Billy Joe Deaton that was originally performed by American country music artists Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb. It was released as a single in July 1964 via Decca Records. "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" was recorded at the Columbia Recording Studio on March 10, 1964. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the session was produced by renowned country music producer Owen Bradley. Three additional tracks were

title: Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be

text: Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" is a song written by Billy Joe Deaton that was originally performed by American country music artists Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb. It was released as a single in July 1964 via Decca Records. "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" was recorded at the Columbia Recording Studio on March 10, 1964. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the session was produced by renowned country music producer Owen Bradley. Three additional tracks were recorded during this session. "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" reached number eleven on the "Billboard" Hot Country

title: Rotary union

text: housing is the component that holds all of the other elements of the rotary union together. The housing has an inlet port, which is a threaded port to which the hose supplying the medium will be attached. The rotary union may also have an outlet port, if the same joint is being used both to supply fluid to a roll and to remove fluid from the roll. In smaller rotary unions the housing is stationary. In larger rotary unions the housing is usually bolted to the drum or roll using a flange. In these cases the housing rotates at the

title: Rotary union

text: the materials from inadvertently mixing. This type of rotary union is often used in the manufacture of plastics and other petroleum products, for which multiple inputs may need to be streamlined, but kept separate. Many assembly lines incorporate multiple rotary unions, because they are highly versatile and take up less space than other devices designed for a similar purpose. Rotary unions also appear in automobiles and other machines that require constant supplies of lubrication, air, or other liquids in order for moving parts to run smoothly. Brakes, for example, use rotary unions to maintain a constant supply of pressurized brake

title: Clerget aircraft engines

text: The direction of rotation was counter (anti)-clockwise as seen from the propeller-end of the engine. Between any two consecutive firing strokes, the engine turned through 80 degrees. Like many other rotary engines of the period they were made chiefly of steel, for strength and lightness. The Shuttleworth Collection based at Old Warden Aerodrome in the UK, operate an airworthy late production Sopwith Triplane "(G-BOCK)" fitted with an original 9B as well as an airworthy late production Sopwith Camel "(G-BZSC)" fitted with an original long-stroke 9Bf. These aircraft can be seen displaying at home air displays through the summer months. In

title: Rotary table

text: otherwise would require a lathe. Rotary tables have many applications, including being used in the manufacture and inspection process of important elements in aerospace, automation and scientific industries. The use of rotary tables stretches as far as the film and animation industry, being used to obtain accuracy and precision in filming and photography. Rotary table A rotary table is a precision work positioning device used in metalworking. It enables the operator to drill or cut work at exact intervals around a fixed (usually horizontal or vertical) axis. Some rotary tables allow the use of index plates for indexing operations, and

title: Man I Used to Be

text: as well as k-os himself (and people in general). In 2014, the track appeared on the French SNEP Charts. Man I Used to Be "Man I Used to Be" is a 2005 top 20 hit single in Canada by Canadian alternative rapper k-os, featured as the third track on his 2004 album "Joyful Rebellion". The video begins with breakdancers in the hallway of an apartment building and k-os is in his room packing to leave, taking a box of seemingly great importance. k-os hails a taxi outside of the Hotel Waverly and two men fight a duel by dancing on

title: Man I Used to Be

text: Man I Used to Be "Man I Used to Be" is a 2005 top 20 hit single in Canada by Canadian alternative rapper k-os, featured as the third track on his 2004 album "Joyful Rebellion". The video begins with breakdancers in the hallway of an apartment building and k-os is in his room packing to leave, taking a box of seemingly great importance. k-os hails a taxi outside of the Hotel Waverly and two men fight a duel by dancing on the sidewalk. A bag man, pushing a cart with a neon light, sings the lyrics and k-os riding in

title: Rotary actuator

text: power, rotary actuators have even been made to work from vacuum power. The only common instance of these was for early automatic windscreen wipers on cars up until around 1960. These used the manifold vacuum of a petrol engine to work a quarter-turn oscillating vane actuator. Such windscreen wipers worked adequately when the engine was running under light load, but they were notorious that when working hard at top speed or climbing a hill, the manifold vacuum was reduced and the wipers slowed to a crawl. Rotary actuators are used in a vast range of applications. These require actuators of

title: Rotary Watches

text: it is a wholly owned Chinese company. Rotary offers a range of timepieces manufactured in Switzerland, together with a range of less expensive pieces made elsewhere, usually with movements from Japan or China which are then assembled in Japan or China. Rotary watches typically use either a quartz or automatic movement, and often feature what Rotary refer to as the "Dolphin Standard" (equivalent to at least ISO 2281), meaning they are water resistant and may be suitable for all-day swimming and diving. Unique to Rotary is the "Revelation" design of reversible watch, which features two distinct movements and faces, allowing

title: Rotary table (drilling rig)

text: prevent the rotary from turning in one particular direction, or from turning at all. This is commonly used by crews in lieu of using a second pair of tongs to makeup or break out pipes.The rotary bushings are located at the center of the rotary table. These can generally be removed in two separate pieces to facilitate large items, i.e. drill bits, to pass through the rotary table. The large gap in the center of the rotary bushings is referred to as the "bowl" due to its appearance. The bowl is where the slips are set to hold up the

title: Rotary mower

text: machinery manufacturer Rousseau SA claims to have invented the mechanical rotary mower in 1962. In horticulture, a rotary mower is usually an integral machine that is either pushed by hand or driven by a riding operator, and used to cut amenity and sports turf. The first successful example was developed in Australia in 1952 by the Victa company. Rotary mower A rotary mower is a unit of powered machinery that uses a rotating blade or blades to cut vegetation. In agriculture, a rotary mower takes the form of a piece of tractor machinery that is often pulled behind the tractor

title: Rotary storage

text: traditional filing cabinets. A wide range of fitments makes the systems suitable for storing a vast array file types and multimedia. For security, each unit can invariably be locked individually. Rotary storage systems usually have no shutters or doors, and therefore can be placed very close to walls or partitioning, for a very efficient use of floor space. Units are often used to divide office space. Rotary storage units can allow faster file access than banks of conventional cabinets, as 50% of stored items are immediately visible to the operator, the rest typically being a pedal push away. Rotary storage

title: Rotary feeder

text: use of the rotary airlock feeder is as an airlock transition point, sealing pressurized systems against loss of air or gas while maintaining a flow of material between components with different pressure and suitable for air lock applications ranging from gravity discharge of filters, rotary valves, cyclone dust collectors, and rotary airlock storage devices to precision feeders for dilute phase and continuous dense phase pneumatic convey systems. Rotary airlock feeders/ rotary airlock valves are used in pneumatic conveying systems, dust control equipment, and as volumetric feed-controls. Rotary airlock valves are also widely used as volumetric feeders for metering materials at

title: Rotary engine

text: reducing power, especially when landing, was often accomplished instead by intermittently cutting the ignition using the blip switch. Cutting cylinders using ignition switches had the drawback of letting fuel continue to pass through the engine, oiling up the spark plugs and making smooth restarting problematic. Also, the raw oil-fuel mix could collect in the cowling. As this could cause a serious fire when the switch was released, it became common practice for part or all of the bottom of the basically circular cowling on most rotary engines to be cut away, or fitted with drainage slots. By 1918 a Clerget

title: We Used to Be Friends

text: We Used to Be Friends "We Used to Be Friends" is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album "Welcome to the Monkey House" on 23 April 2003. The single failed to chart in the US but peaked at number 18 in the UK. The song bears a similar intro riff and vocal melody to that of a Feeder song "Day In Day Out", and the band have listed Grant Nicholas as co-writer. "NME" praised the track, describing it as "a synthetic chatter of robotic handclaps

title: Rotary dryer

text: Rotary dryers can be widely used to dry various materials, and are simple to operate. Rotary Dryers have many applications but are most commonly seen in the mineral industry for drying sands, limestone, stones and soil, ores, fertilizers, wood chips, coal, iron sulphate, filter cakes, sewage sludge, etc. Can also be applied on food industry mainly for liquids as well as for granular material such as food grains, cereals, pulses,coffee beans, fermented tea leaves, etc. A rotary dryer can consist of a single shell or many, though any more than three drums is not usually necessary. Multiple drums can reduce

title: That Used to Be Us

text: provide a thoughtful and balanced corrective to critics on the left who believe that our present economic troubles demonstrate the fundamental failure of the liberal democratic capitalist ideas on which American society is built, and the critics on the right who believe that only a return to 19th-century small government policies can save us." That Used to Be Us That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a non-fiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a

title: That Used to Be Us

text: That Used to Be Us That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a non-fiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011 in the United States. It addresses what the authors see as the four major problems America faces today and possible solutions. These problems are defined as: globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and

title: Rotary transfer machine

text: Rotary transfer machine A rotary transfer machine is a machine tool, typically for metal working by machining, comprising a large indexing table with machining stations surrounding the table. Such rotary transfer machines are used for producing a large lot of parts in fairly short cycle times. In rotary transfer machines, the workpieces are located and clamped in pallet type fixtures that are indexed in a circular path. During one cycle, sequential machining operations are performed simultaneously on the workpieces. The indexed table turns vertically or horizontally, and its movement could be continuous or intermittent. As the indexing table turns, the

title: This Used to Be My Playground

text: album, performing the song. George himself stated in his autobiography that he was "furious" after watching Madonna's video and renamed it "This Used to Be My Video". Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Something to Remember" and the single release of "This Used to Be My Playground". This Used to Be My Playground "This Used to Be My Playground" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna. It is the theme for the film "A League of Their Own", which starred Madonna, and portrayed a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Madonna was asked to

title: I Used to Be an Animal

text: rock, hip hop, glam metal, electronica and blues. All songs were composed by Eric Burdon and Steve Grant; except where noted. I Used to Be an Animal I Used To Be An Animal is an album by Eric Burdon from 1988. It was his first new album in almost four years. It was recorded in Malibu, USA. Following his autobiography, "I Used To Be An Animal, But I'm Alright Now", it was his comeback. "Going Back To Memphis", "Run For Your Life", "Don't Give A Damn" and "I Will Be With You Again" were released as singles worldwide. Most of

title: Rotary stage

text: repeatable positioning of the platform relative to the base. This type of rotary stage includes ball bearing stages, crossed roller bearing stages, and possibly others. Any of a number of different rolling-element bearings may be employed. Typically, a pair of bearings is used and they are preloaded to take up any slack which could result in the stage platform lifting relative to the base. Some rotary stages are operated simply by turning the platform by hand. The platform may have index marks for setting different angular positions relative to the base. A locking mechanism may be provided to fix the

title: Better Than I Used to Be

text: Better Than I Used to Be Better Than I Used to Be is the title of the ninth studio album by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. The album was released on August 31, 2010 via Big Hit Records. It is produced by Buddy Cannon. Two singles were released from the album: "Better Than I Used to Be" and "The Snow White Rows of Arlington". The album, along with the two singles, failed to enter a "Billboard" chart. "Saltwater Cowboy" was originally recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 2006 album "Different Things". A cover song of "The Cover of the

title: Rotary converter plant

text: converter plants were also used for coupling power grids of different frequencies and operation modes. The former Neuhof Substation was an example of the latter. Former machinery transmitters like the Alexanderson alternator were, strictly speaking, rotary converter plants. In spite of modern power semiconductor technology, rotary converters are still common for feeding railway systems with AC of a different frequency from that of the main electricity grid. In Europe, this would typically be for 15 kV AC railway electrification. Rotary converter plant A rotary converter plant is a facility at which rotary converters convert one form of electricity to another