| 单词 | traction engine |
| 例句 | Although frustrated by what he mistakenly perceived to be a lack of draughtsmanship, he used his highly individual eye to breathe fresh life into the everyday – notably old traction engines and farming equipment. Letter: Michael Gough obituary 2011-04-06T17:07:02Z Locomotives, traction engines and lorries from the golden age of steam are rolling back the years for visitors to a North East museum. Full steam ahead at museum festival 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The 70ft-long timber-framed Manor Barn, weighing 100 tonnes, was transported on 16 wheels pulled by a steam traction engine for about half a mile. At Easter 1971, a 400-year-old barn was moved on wheels across Knebworth Park - BBC News 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z A bus driver who was seriously injured in an accident when a traction engine fell off a low-loader into his cabin has told how he thought he "would die". East Mersea steam engine bus crash driver 'thought he would die' - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Reid’s collection started with a train set and grew to include model steam engines, planes, ships, traction engines and automobiles. Michigan man’s model collection going to auction 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Sad but we also stopped making horse-drawn fire engines, steam agricultural traction engines, muskets and flint-tipped spears too... UK's 'last typewriter' produced 2012-11-20T14:40:15Z Even those immune to internal combustion and traction engines should be intrigued by some of the ingenious machinery on show. Stuck for an outing? Try the National Tractor Weekend 2012-05-17T14:00:00Z They met no ugly traction engines to upset the horses, and disturb the patient's composure. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Before the hotel building had fairly left the town, other traction engines were brought to the town. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Afterwards he was distracted by a traction engine going through the town, and his aunt had got some sprats for supper. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z They kept up the chase for some minutes; then, there being no sign of rallying, they darted back to the causeway, where the traction engines and lorries now stood deserted. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Probably no agricultural development of the last decade is of more interest or greater significance than the rapid advance in the use of the traction engine. 100 Years Ago: Vickers Machine Gun 2012-01-21T14:15:02.307Z The mare sidled past the electric cars nervously, and jumped when a traction engine came upon us. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z So much was the Sailor astonished by the discovery that he fell out of bed, without disturbing Ginger who was in occupation of three parts of it and snoring like a traction engine. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Delayed for a time after leaving Adderbury by the collapse of a traction engine on the road. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At the further end of the causeway was another traction engine with a similar load. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Only a few years ago threshing machines were drawn by horses, but of late years they have been moved with self-propelling steam engines, commonly called traction engines. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z He was an agent of an agricultural implement manufactory in a distant county, and his object was to induce them to purchase implements of him—especially steam traction engines. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z You don’t know what to do, what to wear, how to walk, how to look, or what to look for; and you’ll make as much noise as a traction engine. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Truth is, we were haunted by our greatest foe, the traction engine fiend, which twice yesterday nearly brought us to grief and my narrative to a close. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z They are coming by road: were last heard of at Crefeld--huge things, drawn by innumerable traction engines from the estimable millionaire's works at Essen. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z When these fine roads become the possession of a country light traction engines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z So the bargain was struck, and we were soon puffing away like traction engines. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z "Scattergood," I once asked him, "what do you do to that young mare of yours when you meet a traction engine or a military band?" All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z At one point he discerned a traction engine hauling a string of laden wagons. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z A traction engine, drawing a very heavy load, slipped over the edge of the causeway three miles yonder. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Owners of traction engines took advantage of clear nights to plough, the powerful headlights throwing a brilliant light across the fields. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z It is like dropping a traction engine on a huge tin tray. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z On the Grand Jonas, three pieces of heavy artillery began thundering, three Rimailho guns, which had been hoisted into position by traction engines. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z Log chains and a traction engine couldn't have pulled me in that place. The Man from Jericho Between him and the causeway a half-troop of cavalry had off saddled, and were smoking near the broken traction engine, which had apparently swerved over the edge, and completely blocked the road. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Wilson McNair described these cumbersome and sometimes dangerous machines this way: The thresher was run and pulled by a traction engine. Frying Pan Farm Through the Canal proper they would be drawn by electric traction engines, running upon the walls. Bert Wilson at Panama We haven’t got a traction engine to move this outfit,” grumbled Fullerton, as his sister-in-law appeared, together with another quite exasperating bundle. In the Whirl of the Rising The giant gang-plow with its 110-horsepower traction engine is a prairie triumph, but it has very little interest for the ordinary farmer on an average farm. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity “This was my cue to get busy with the big farmer, and before he left the bank he had bought a thresher, four traction engines and half a dozen ploughs.” The Romance of the Reaper 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. Frying Pan Farm Some of the big guns were drawn by traction engines, and their progress even over good roads must necessarily be very slow. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France And the droning of the machine and the jerky spluttering of the traction engine sounded pleasantly in the sultry atmosphere. The Hound From The North "In the early hours of Wednesday morning, what is supposed to have been a traction engine when proceeding southward, struck the west side of the parapet with great force." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 Culverts of this type have a tendency to break under unusual loads, such as traction engines or trucks. American Rural Highways That year the threshing was done in the fields with a traction engine. A Son of the Middle Border Now the whole thing's simple as A B C, and not half as dangerous as running a traction engine or breaking a broncho. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West These guns were so heavy that the London Times stated that it took thirteen traction engines to pull a single one of them. Birdseye Views of Far Lands He began to resign himself to fate and this Juggernaut of a man who rolled other people’s feelings flat with no more compunction than a traction engine. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker We stood about on the road waiting for another traction engine and waggons to get our kits carried for us. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Telephone linemen, lolling with pipes and climber-strapped legs in big trucks, sang out to her; traction engine crews shouted; and these she found to be her own people. Free Air He heard a strange wailing sound and a shivering motion beneath his feet, as though a heavy traction engine were passing close to the house. The Secret House The same constructors ran another vehicle in this competition of a somewhat similar design, but not adapted for a traction engine; this carried six passengers, and weighed about 3,000 lb. in working order. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Once he stayed to talk with a stone-breaker by the side of the wood; once he led a farmer's restive horse and trap by a traction engine. The Grell Mystery When a traction engine passed towing a threshing machine the sorrel mare showed her mettle in a series of gyrations that all but landed Archie in a fence corner. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The sound at first seemed not very unlike that which a traction engine, or any other monster that murders sleep, may make before quite getting up steam. The Mark Of Cain The smooth English roads, lacking depth of road-metal, were speedily torn to pieces by the heavy traffic of motors and steam traction engines. On the Fringe of the Great Fight They entered three vehicles for competition; one of these, called No. 1, was the traction engine which had taken part in the 1894 trials, and which we have already described. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 A British officer declared that one trained elephant is more valuable than a half-dozen traction engines. The Human Side of Animals The poor girl is no more guilty than if a traction engine had run over her or a wild beast had broken on her out of his cage. The Eternal City But in recent times the weight of traction engines and wagons which pass over bridges has increased, and this kind of load generally produces greater straining action than a crowd of people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The solution lay in the use of tractors, or the tractor principle, which every person familiar with farming and the "traction engine" can recognize. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Their second vehicle, No. 2, was a four seated brake which was, in fact, a modified traction engine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 The point is that I had no idea that iron traction engine wanted to marry my daughter or anybody's daughter. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron A string of lorries form the docks, drawn by a traction engine, checked me at the corner for a time, although the yellow car passed. The Golden Scorpion What could have been the Megatherium and the Ichthyosaurus, and all the fire-spitting dragons of antiquity compared to the traction engines of the nineteenth century? Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Down by the godowns, where Shafto worked, the stir and press of commercial life was tremendous; on every side roared and dashed trams, motor-lorries, traction engines and—curious anachronism—long strings of heavily-laden bullock carts. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma But we had no horses or traction engines to drag the vehicles; every available beast and machine had been requisitioned for the army. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben When the sweep is silent, when slumber is stealing over the weary eyelids, then traction engines, or steam-rollers, or some other scientific improvement on wheels begin to traverse the streets and shake the houses. Lost Leaders With modern cranes and traction engines all would be simple, but it might have been thought that in the stone age such building would be impossible. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The situation was critical in the extreme; the traction engine came on apace, the man with the red flag having paused at a public-house round the corner, was only now running back into his place. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Three traction engines were taking to the front the first of the great British guns, so long awaited. Love Stories Then, when we all felt fit, we returned to the traction engine. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben I had a job with a man going around the country with a traction engine, threshing wheat and oats at different farms. Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch As we passed the railway station we saw a huge traction engine, which we were informed belonged to the Duke of Sutherland, and was employed by him to draw wood and stone to the railway. From John O'Groats to Land's End The traction engine passed, snorting forth fire and smoke, on its devastating way; and Clochette stood by, panting, trembling, and covered with foam. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance The remedy, however, presented itself by the utilisation of the traction engine. Argentina from a British Point of View Two months had rolled by, at traction engine speed. The Siege of Kimberley Perhaps more remarkable than anything else presenting my father's great scientific ingenuity was his improvements of the dynamo and the invention of a new successful small traction engine. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars At one "boot and saddle," and at two we started and joined the convoy, a long train of ox-waggons, with some traction engines drawing trucks. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Select, for example, a book-store window, a jewelry display, a window full of tools and instruments, an offering of meats and groceries, and a traction engine. Analyzing Character One of the greatest competitors of the British-built traction engine is the Hart-Parr oil engine, a splendid agricultural tool, which is invaluable where ordinary fuel is not easily procurable. Argentina from a British Point of View Here we change to the observation train drawn by a mountain-climbing traction engine, and begin the climb. Byways Around San Francisco Bay To the farmer the automobile is a traction engine, and he advises the route accordingly; he will even speculate whether a given bridge will support the extraordinary load. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" The race between the steam roller and the traction engine. Composition-Rhetoric Another army officer said:— "Catching Filipino outlaws with the Army is like catching a flea in a twenty-acre field with a traction engine." The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) By his traction engine he can strike 12 furrows at a time. A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California The machinist has another and lighter traction engine which does not plough, but travels from farm to farm with a threshing machine. Hodge and His Masters If I said "no," some one would disagree just as quickly, and how shall I answer it to the satisfaction of most engineers of a traction engine? Rough and Tumble Engineering Look here!" blustered Mr. Damon, "Tom Swift is neither a whipper-snapper nor is his machine a traction engine. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam Thirty years later the large farms of the Pacific states were ploughed, harrowed and sowed with wheat in a single operation by fifty-horse-power traction engines drawing ploughs, harrows and press drills. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Your friend, Mr. Fisbee, found a substitute, a relative six feet high with his coat off, a traction engine for energy and a limited mail for speed. The Gentleman from Indiana An engine snorts to and fro, shunting coal waggons on to the siding—coal for the traction engines, and to be consumed in threshing out the golden harvest around. Hodge and His Masters If you are made of the proper stuff you can get enough out of this little book to make you as good an engineer as ever pulled a throttle on a traction engine. Rough and Tumble Engineering "It looks like a traction engine, though it smashes things up more'n any one I ever saw." Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam It is used, for example, in automobiles, in traction engines, in plowing and harvesting machinery, in fire-engines, in road-rollers, and in all sorts of hoisting and conveying machinery. Outline of Universal History No pony carriage was in sight, but a traction engine was lumbering heavily upwards, with a man walking before it carrying a red flag. Miss Merivale's Mistake In the lot were a half dozen buggies and a family carriage or two, a traction engine, a mowing machine, several farm wagons and other farm tools gone beyond naming. Windy McPherson's Son All traction engines to be practical must of a necessity, be reversible. Rough and Tumble Engineering The traction engine, belonging to a stone quarry, passed two or three times a week, and was never—the country being hilly—so full that it could not accommodate a passenger. Gone to Earth And he said that the peasants still declare they can hear the knight wheezing on moonlight nights, but "Antoine" said it was probably a traction engine. The Visits of Elizabeth He had forgotten all about the traction engine. Miss Merivale's Mistake A big traction engine, neatly covered by a tarpaulin, and a trailer lurry stood in front of the sliding door. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" No engine can be subjected to more variation of loads than the traction engine, and as the above are facts the reader can draw his own conclusions. Rough and Tumble Engineering At last the traction engine appeared, and Mrs. Marston was hoisted into the trailer—a large truck with scarlet-painted sides, and about half full of stone. Gone to Earth That same day he went out driving in the afternoon with a young horse, and returning home met a traction engine, at which the horse instantly took fright and bolted. Probable Sons But as he spoke he suddenly remembered the traction engine crawling up the hill. Miss Merivale's Mistake He must pay for the coal as it arrives and his money is probably getting short; the traction engine and trailer cost a good sum, and he has spent something on the lime-kilns. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Allow me just here to tell you how to construct a good tank for a traction engine. Rough and Tumble Engineering She was even heard making fun, and declaring that no one knew what a relief it would be not to have to take drives when all the roads were beset with traction engines. Magnum Bonum When the traction engine works satisfactorily, plowing may be done at a cost considerably lower than when horses are employed. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall "It is only trains and traction engines Bob is frightened of," Miss Merivale said. Miss Merivale's Mistake His traction engine is suited for the work and he is prepared to buy a trailer lurry, which we would find useful in the dale. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" If you are going to run a traction engine I would advise you to use your best efforts to become an expert at it. Rough and Tumble Engineering The moment the great beast had passed our tree, he scented us, snorted loudly, and dived into the bushes close by, smashing through them like a traction engine. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures The great traction engines have very wide wheels of such tremendous weight that they press down the soil very compactly along their path and in that way defeat one of the important purposes of tillage. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall They met that traction engine; Miss Smythe was driving, and tried to make Bob pass it. Miss Merivale's Mistake The motive power is a traction engine or else twenty to thirty horses, and seventy-five acres a day can be reaped and threshed. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Three things are essential to be able to handle a traction engine as it should be handled. Rough and Tumble Engineering It can capture guns in retreat much more easily by bombing traction engines and coming down low and shooting horses and men. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Undoubtedly, the traction engine has a place in dry-farming, but it has not yet been perfected to such a degree as to make it satisfactory. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall Poor oil is largely responsible for the fast going out of use of the link reverse among the makers of traction engines. Rough and Tumble Engineering The next step forward was to substitute for horses a traction engine. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest The reverse on traction engines is usually arranged to cut off at I/4, I/2 or 3/4. Rough and Tumble Engineering Now what a contrast there is between this engineer and a poor one, and unfortunately there are hundreds of poor engineers running portable and traction engines. Rough and Tumble Engineering I think ninety per cent of the fires started by. traction engines can be traced to the engineer having his engine choked at the exhaust nozzle. Rough and Tumble Engineering The compound traction engine has come into use within the past few years, and I am inclined to think more for sort of a novelty or talking point rather than to produce a better engine. Rough and Tumble Engineering Q. To what class does the farm or traction engine belong? Rough and Tumble Engineering |
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