Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
12" Quadruple Sector-less Wimshurst Machine (Bonetti Machine) An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and low continuous current. The knowledge of static electricity dates back to the earliest civilizations, but for millennia it remained ...
1954. Cliffhanger. The Cliff Hanger is an amusement park rider that is meant to simulate hang gliding. 1984. Condor. The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower".
The winner was Sol Food Collective. Challenge #2: teams were given three pounds of crab meat donated by The Giant Crab Restaurant. Each team had to create a brand-new dish incorporating the crab meat. The team that made the most money from their dishes wins immunity. Sol Food Collective, being a vegan team, decided not to do the challenge.
The wheel includes a "mystery sample", which is revealed by the announcer to both the audience and the contestants prior to game play. Each contestant spins the wheel just once and is awarded a seemingly arbitrary point value (Jimmy tells the second contestant that the point value the first contestant scored is the maximum number of points a ...
Lottery wheeling (also known as lottery system, lottery wheel, lottery wheeling system) is a method of selecting multiple lottery tickets, widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn numbers.
Extinct. Dog ( domestic dog) The turnspit dog is an extinct short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat. It is mentioned in Of English Dogs in 1576 under the name "Turnespete". [ 1] William Bingley 's Memoirs of British Quadrupeds (1809) also talks of a dog employed to help chefs and cooks.
Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation. [ 1] Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference (the transmission of centripetal acceleration via normal force in the non-rotating frame of ...
Video of a spinning, patterned paper disc. At a certain speed the sets of spokes appear to slow and rotate in opposite directions. The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly ...