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• List of vehicle speed records
  | Human-powered speed record || 132.50 km/h (82.33 mph) || Varna Diablo 3 | [[Human-powered aircraft]] || 32 km/h (19.8 mph) average speed || [[Massa
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• Racing
  === Unassisted human racing === Using only the [[human body]]'s own [[muscle]]s:
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• Vehicle
  ...sportation, are not called vehicles. This includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person.
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• Weight
  ==Human weight in the medical sciences and ordinary language== * [[Human weight]]
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• Track cycling
  ...tion]] is a separate organisation that runs recumbent races, including the human-powered speed record.
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• Unit
  ...of the Imperial Japanese Army, which researched biological warfare through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World W
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• Veal
  ...y no means unique to those posed by administration of antibiotics to other human-consumed livestock. Some critics of veal-farming have alleged that farmers
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• Engine
  ...ern world, engines themselves are not new. Engines using [[Manual labour |human power]], [[Animal powered transport |animal power]], [[Hydropower |water po ...iege engines]] in [[Ancient Rome]]. Early [[Galley |oared warships]] used human power augmented by the simple engine of the [[lever]] -- the [[oar]] itself
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• Fuel
  ...cing usable energy for purposes that go far beyond the energy needs of a [[human body]]. The application of energy released from fuels ranges from [[heat]]
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• Marine engine
  ...ern world, engines themselves are not new. Engines using [[Manual labour |human power]], [[Animal powered transport |animal power]], [[Hydropower |water po ...iege engines]] in [[Ancient Rome]]. Early [[Galley |oared warships]] used human power augmented by the simple engine of the [[lever]] -- the [[oar]] itself
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• Knurling
  ...ped (criss-cross) pattern is cut or rolled into metal. This pattern allows human hands or fingers to get a better grip on the knurled object than would be p
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• Brake-by-wire
  ...ith electronic control systems using [[electromechanical]] actuators and [[human-machine interface]]s such as pedal and steering feel emulators. '''Brake-by Once the driver inputs a [[brake]] command to the system via a [[human-machine interface]] - HMI (e.g. the brake [[pedal]]), four independent brak
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• Cockpit
  Erogonomics and human factors concerns are important in the design of modern cockpits. The layou ...ience]], [[Neuroscience]], [[Human Computer Interaction]], [[Human Factors|Human Factors Engineering]] and [[Ergonomics]].
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• Machine
  Modern power tools, [[automation|automated]] machine tools, and human-operated power machinery are tools that are also machines. Machines used to
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• Semi-automatic transmission
  ...that electronic equipment can react much faster and more precisely than a human, and takes advantage of the precision of electronic signals to allow a comp
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• Seat belt
  ...acing|racing]] cars. The lap portion is connected to a belt between the [[Human leg|leg]]s and there are two shoulder belts, making a total of five points ...xperiment]]s using both [[crash test dummy|crash test dummies]] and actual human [[cadaver]]s have indicated that wearing seat belts should provide a reduce
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• Casu marzu
  ...fection. ''Piophila casei'' larvae can pass through the [[stomach]] alive (human stomach acids do not usually kill them) and take up residency for some peri
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• Piazza San Marco
  ...it is the only great urban space in a European city where the sound is of human voices talking.
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• General Disclaimer
  ...ociation of individuals and groups who are developing a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet conn
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• Umbria
  ...ated on it: the Tiber itself thus is not a major factor in the history and human geography of Umbria. The same cannot be said of the Tiber's three principal
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• Engineering
  ...ies [[science|scientific]] and [[technology|technical]] knowledge to solve human problems. Engineers use imagination, judgment,reasoning and experience to a * [[Henry Petroski|Petroski, Henry]], ''To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design'', Vintage, 1992
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• Capri
  ...e first displays of [[fossils]]. More modern excavation s have showed that human presence on the island can be dated back to the [[Neolithic]] and the [[Bro
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• Three wheeler
  A '''three wheeler''' is a [[vehicle]] with three [[wheel]]s, either "human or people-powered vehicles" (HPV or PPV or [[velomobile]]s) or [[engine|mot
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• Units of measurement
  ...ctical use of '''units of [[measurement]]''' have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. Disparate [[systems of measureme ...ed to some extent or other. Often they were based on the dimensions of the human body.
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• Sequential manual transmission
  ...ing all torque transfer. In auto racing, this process is slow and prone to human error; hence the development of the sequential transmission. A true sequent
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• Architecture
  ...cture may be seen as a ''subjective [[Map (mathematics)|mapping]]'' from a human perspective (that of the ''user'' in the case of abstract or physical artif Early human settlements were essentially [[rural]]. As surplus of production began to o
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• Industrial design
  ...es design with considerable engineering and technology awareness alongside human factors—a "Total Design" approach, promoted by the late [[Stuart Pugh
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• Fornasari
  ...the passion for cars, but also a valuable asset of technical know-how and human knowledge.
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...diterranean Sea has been known by a number of alternative names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called ''[[Mare Nostrum]]'' (Latin,
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• Salami
  ...so involves fermentation with [[lactic acid bacteria]], which are safe for human ingestion. The acid produced by the bacteria makes the meat an inhospitable
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ===Human power and environmental power hybrids=== Many land and water vehicles use human power combined with a further power source. Common are parallel hybrids, e.
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• Moonraker
  ...to the space station. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; these people would be the seed for a "new master race". ...inted out that he and his girlfriend do not live up to Drax's standard for human 'perfection', aids Bond by helping him and Dr. Goodhead escape the station
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• Engineering mechanics
  * H. Petroski, "To Engineer Is Human", St. Martins, 1985.
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• History of the bicycle
  Vehicles for human [[transport]] that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date ...n 1818 which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine commonly called a [[velocipede]], nick-named [[hobby-hors
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• Mopeds
  ...equire pedals, thus making them a form of [[hybrid transport]], using both human power and machine power. Because of their small size, many jurisdictions c
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• Michael Jekot
  ...of Lawrence Braun as a mix of historic accuracy with a sense of motion and human interaction.
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• Car battery
  ...e should be taken when changing acid as acid can have a negative effect on human skin.
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• Lipari
  ...of local archaeological retrievals; its disparate sections relating to the human history of the entire Aeolian Islands from prehistoric to classical times,
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• B Engineering
  ...e car must remain a thing of creative passion, as well as an extraordinary human adventure.
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• Power (physics)
  ...ich is equal to one [[joule]] per [[second]]. The power consumption of a [[human]] is on average roughly 100 watts, ranging from 85 W during sleep to 800 W
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• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  ...ower]] (179 kW), through a single tyre-contact patch roughly the size of a human hand. For comparison, Formula 1 cars produce up to 950 [[bhp]] ((700 kW) fr
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• Modena, Italy
  ...he Christian world of the interior. In Wiligelmus' sculpure at Modena, the human body takes on a renewed physicality it had lost in the schematic symbolic f
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• Risk compensation
  There is evidence that suggests that such an effect is seen in [[human]]s, associated with the use of safety features such as [[Automobile|car]] [
  8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:03, 15 November 2009
• Moonraker (film)
  ...to the space station. They would live there until Earth was safe again for human life; these people would be the seed for a "new master race". ...inted out that he and his girlfriend do not live up to Drax's standard for human "perfection", aids Bond by helping him and Dr. Goodhead escape the station
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• Art of Italy
  ...tation of visual forms. The perfection of perspective, light and realistic human figures can be thought of as impossible to improve upon ''unless'' another
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• Michelin
  ...his brother, Édouard, observed that a display of stacked tyres resembled a human form. Today, Bibendum is one of the world's most recognized trademarks, re
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• Lee Iacocca
  ...a national [[grassroots]] campaign that will bring Faustman's research to human clinical trials in 2006.
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• Luigi Colani
  ;2000: "Human-City" architecture model by MW Energie AG in Mannheim, Germany. Colani opti
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