automatic car tricks

  Automatic or manual What is a transmission? This is the mechanism by which the power is transmitted from an engine to the wheels of a motor vehicle. You’ll probably refer to it as the ‘gears’ or ‘gearbox’. A transmission is needed because there is a redline – a maximum revolutions per minute (rpm) value – over which a car cannot go without exploding and narrow rpm gauges where horsepower (the power of the engine) and torque (the twisting force that causes rotation) are at their maximum. The transmission allows the gear ratio between the engine and the drive wheels to change as the car speeds up and slows down. What is manual...

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Audio book

Find Your Smile in an Audiobook Traveling to and from work, while exercising, or waiting in line - find your smile in a book with Audiobook Builder! Audiobook Builder makes it easy to turn your audio CDs and files into audiobooks for your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Join audio, create enhanced chapter stops, adjust quality settings and let Audiobook Builder handle the rest. When it finishes you get one or a few audiobook tracks in iTunes instead of hundreds or even thousands of music tracks! Key Features Audio File Joining: Already ripped your CDs to MP3 or M4A? Don't suffer through it again - drag your audio...

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Auctions online

Local governments across the United States conduct a variety of real estate auctions in the effort to collect delinquent real estate taxes, return real estate to the tax rolls and promote the redevelopment of blighted areas. Also, as a result of the ongoing mortgage foreclosure crisis, local governments have been confronted with carrying out countless foreclosure auctions following mortgage foreclosure lawsuits. Although real estate auctions held by local government officials vary considerably, they may generally be broken down into a few distinct categories. Tax lien auctions are conducted to collect delinquent real estate property...

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Study Designs: Genetic Association Studies

1 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Program in Genomics and Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5 Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Istituto di Medicina Legale, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, 6 Department of Biology, Galton Laboratory, University College London, United Kingdom, 7 Department...

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Artificial flowers

Make the world a better looking place with flowers for life. Looking for artificial florals and botanicals? Established Since 1982 Florabelle offers the largest range of artificial and silk flowers and fake plants in Australia and New Zealand. We also have a large selection of artificial trees and topiary, wedding and bridal bouquets, waterproof flora, décor such as vases and homewares including home fragrances. Christmas decor is another product line we specialise in, all of which can be viewed in our new showroom in Alexandria, Sydney. We pride ourselves on excellent value for money and have in house expertise in design and display of beautiful...

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Art gallery

    The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. Encouraged by the feedback from the visitors, recently 19th-century art was also included. However, we do not intend...

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Armored cars

When people think of car safety features, airbags, seatbelts or anti-lock brakes likely come to mind. For the extremely wealthy, government officials, or expatriates living in high-risk areas, something more secure is often needed. To meet the demand, companies have sprung up around the world to reinforce and bulletproof cars and trucks — a practice known as “up-armoring.” One such company is Houston-based Texcalibur Armor, which provides bulletproof vehicles and luxury armored cars to everyone from diplomats, SWAT teams and government contractors, to business executives, celebrities and high-net-worth individuals. “The idea behind...

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Amazing Aircraft crashes

Date of Crash: December 24, 1971 Aircraft type: Lockheed Electra L-188A Crash Site: Puerto Inca, Peru Passengers & Crew: 92 Fatalities: 91 Cause of Crash: Human Error and Structural failure possibly struck by lightning On Christmas Eve 1971 the Peruvian airliner, had taken off from the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima on a flight to Pucallpa, Peru. About a half hour after takeoff and at about 21,000 feet, the aircraft entered a thunderstorm and heavy turbulence and was possibly struck by lightning. The pilots had difficulty controlling the aircraft and it soon went into a dive. The crew attempted to level out the...

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home made air conditioner

Credit goes out to Pete H. in sunny England for this great build. This version of the homemade air conditioner removes the need to drain water outside by using an aquarium pump, and sits on a rotating base. Check out more homemade air conditioners here. Here’s the overall view of the unit. You can see the insulated polystyrene box containing icewater and the aquarium pump, along with the fan and attached copper tubing. Pete did a much neater job of attaching the copper tubing to the front of the fan than I did. Using copper tubing on both the front and back of the fan is a great idea, the more copper tubing, the more heat exchange...

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Racing Airplanes

  The Formula One racing class is without question the most successful class in the 86-year history of airplane racing. It has seen more races, more pilots and more airplanes than all other racing classes combined in a half-century lifetime, and has experienced but one important change in its rules in all that time. Moreover, it is the only formal air racing class to be exported from the U. S. to Europe, and the only class to be recognized by the International Aeronautics Federation (FAI), the world governing body for competitive aviation. As a specified class it...

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Agricultural simulator

Bored of shooters? Killed enough dragons? Perhaps you’re looking for something fresh. Something more rural, with classy overtones of nostalgia. Perhaps you’re keen to get away from war and blood and and death and that. What you need, my friend, is a tractor and a field to plough, and an incessant banjo twanging away in the background. The banjo is especially important. Enter Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming, a glossy look at “the golden age of mechanized farming.” It claims to be “the ultimate agricultural driving, workflow and business simulation.” If you don’t like the idea of words like “workflow” appearing in your out-of-work...

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Aerosol manufacturing

  History of the Aerosol The first use for an aerosol package arose during World War II, but the idea of using low-pressure liquefied gas to atomize droplets of liquid in the air was developed in 1924. Canisters filled with insecticide and propellants were used to protect U.S. servicemen from insects carrying diseases such as malaria. Shortly after the war, Robert Abplanalp, founder of Precision Valve Corporation (PVC), invented the first mass-produced aerosol valve. The patent was filed in September 1949 and was issued on March 17, 1953. From that invention, the aerosol industry quickly developed in the United States and around...

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advocate devil

A devil's advocate is someone who argues against an idea, position, or cause for the sake of argument, rather than out of actual opposition. While a devil's advocate can simply play a contrary role, someone who argues against an idea can also stimulate discussion which can identify weak points in an argument which need to be addressed. Therefore, one could consider this approach incredibly useful, albeit stressful for someone advocating alone against an accepted idea in a group. The term is derived from a tradition in the Roman Catholic Church, in which someone would act as an advocate for the devil, arguing against the canonization of someone...

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Advertising ideas

Word of mouth is excellent small business advertising – but it’s slow, and may be practically non-existent for new businesses. If you want to grow your customer base more quickly, you have to advertise. This collection of small business advertising ideas presents both the tried and true and advertising ideas you may not have tried yet – advertising ideas for your small business to effectively reach your target market and attract new customers.   1. The Yellow Pages. There’s still a lot of people who use the yellow pages to find the businesses they’re looking for – and they won’t find you if your small business isn’t listed there....

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experimental adhesive

Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) Scientists already know that the tiny hairs on geckos’ toe pads enable them to cling to vertical surfaces. Now, University of Akron researchers are unfolding clues to the reptiles’ gripping power in wet conditions to create a synthetic adhesive that sticks when moist or on wet surfaces. Place a single water droplet on the sole of a gecko toe, and the pad repels water. The anti-wetting property helps explain how geckos maneuver in rainy tropical conditions, the Journal of Experimental Biology reports. However, saturate that same toe pad in water or drench the surface on which it climbs, and adhesion slips...

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ٍAcrylic painting

Acrylic painting is one of the newest painting mediums, being introduced as 'recently' as 1955. These paints have come a long way since then, with an ever-widening range of paints and associated art supplies. If you've ever painted the walls of your home with latex or emulsion paint, you'll have used a very close cousin of the these paints. In fact I use white matt emulsion, tinted with yellow or brown, to put a base coat on the canvasses I prepare for some of my acrylic painting work. The acrylic painting technique offers both the new and experienced artist a very versatile method of painting. It's a water-based medium and the usual texture...

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accounting machine

Mechanical office machines reached their technical peak with accounting and billing machines. These masterpieces of precision mechanics were first built around 1900, and were replaced by electronic computers in the 1970s. They combine the capabilities of arithmetic and writing, and can be regarded as early data processing machines. The exhibition gives an overview of the most important machines. Inflation gives an impetus In the course of industrialization, accounting departments were confronted with ever larger amounts of data that made it essential to rationalize processing with the aid of machines. In Germany, the inflation of 1923 was...

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Accounting Lecture - Basic Concepts

Course Description: The first part of this course is designed to provide students with an insight into key financial accounting concepts needed for effective decision-making. This includes a brief discussion of how to record transactions using T accounts; preparing adjusted trial balances; preparing income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows. Techniques for analyzing financial statements to examine a company’s financial status with respect to profitability, liquidity, and solvency are also discussed. This course subsequently builds on traditional concepts of managerial accounting (break-even analysis; strategic decisions...

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Accessories Collection

Axis provides a wide range of accessories that complements its network cameras and video encoders and assists in your network video installation. Helping you build complete video surveillance solutions Whether the network cameras are to be placed in demanding outdoors environment, mounted on ceilings, walls or corners, or used for night-time surveillance, it is important to find the right accessories that fulfill these demands and are quick and easy to install. Tested and approved with Axis cameras Axis provides a wide range of accessories to facilitate the installation and maintenance of network video systems. This includes protective camera...

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Cutting metal in the home shop

he wheels are generally made from a matrix of coarse particles pressed and bonded together to form a solid, circular shape, various profiles and cross sections are available depending on the intended usage for the wheel. They may also be made from a solid steel or aluminium disc with particles bonded to the surface. The manufacture of these wheels is a precise and tightly controlled process, due not only to the inherent safety risks of a spinning disc, but also the composition and uniformity required to prevent that disc from exploding due to the high stresses produced on rotation Grain size, from 8 (coarsest) 1200 (finest), determines...

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