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It is done by grasping a small portion of hair and gently applying traction while sliding the fingers along the hair shafts.
Lack of fuel and replacement parts has led to the reintroduction of animal traction for agriculture in a retrenchment to a preindustrial past.
Ox-wagon rides were provided on a historic wagon pulled by a team of Nguni oxen from the University of Fort Hare's animal traction unit.
To facilitate animal traction, migrants cut down big trees, cleared bamboo bushes, and uprooted stumps.
Loss of animal traction resulted in decreased production intensity, as did loss of labor power through migration, conscription, and death.
Why were valuable time and money spent in attempts to adapt the unadaptable old horse car lines to the new condition of electric traction?
In most of the country the distinction between electric and other traction would not be important, but in the mid-Atlantic states it was.
These charges include electric traction current and station-leasing charges.
Pictures, diagrams, tables and models are used to explain the evolution of engines from steam through diesel to electric traction.
Mourning in anticipation, 71 railway enthusiasts took steam's eclipse by diesel and electric traction to be history's greatest betrayal.
With electric traction we could bring the time down to 30-35 minutes, which would be reasonable for 46 miles.
Once this is commissioned, electric traction will be available from Delhi-Chennai-Jolarpet stretch to the State capital.
Electric traction gave rise to increases in flexibility, speed and capacity, and resulted in cheaper fares.
We must practise energy conservation comprehensively and switch over to electricity-based traction for railways and urban transportation.
Electric traction was commercially applied first on suburban and metropolitan lines, but was quickly adopted for underground railways.
The demonstration of an electric railway at Berlin by Siemens in 1879 opened the way to a transport revolution based on electric traction.
He now focuses on designing traction kites which can pull a board, a craft or a vehicle.
Colin, a retired traction and rolling stock engineer, and his wife aim to complete more than 30,000 miles of their epic odyssey by train.
It's pulled by a diesel engine today but there is a strong movement to reintroduce steam traction.
The interactive museum would have featured all elements of steam technology from steam boats to steam traction and trains.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I told him you put the barge on rollers and towed it up to Ledyard with a traction engine.
If anteflexion be present, the anterior lip of the cervix should be seized with the volsella and fixed by slight traction.
Its towing power in the water, and that of traction on dry land, is astonishing.
In occlusion of the gut by compression and traction the cause should be found, and, if possible, removed.
In that year the first gearless traction machine was installed by Otis in a Chicago theatre.
It operates by a kind of titillation or gentle traction, such as we exercise upon the cow.
In either case, the bending may be increased by the traction of muscles, and sometimes by the occurrence of greenstick fracture.
A tuft of groundsel had rooted itself close beside the traction rails a few paces from the waterside.
The traction rope is carried over the sheave at the top, then let fall and passed round a sheave in a block below.
Afterwards he was distracted by a traction engine going through the town, and his aunt had got some sprats for supper.
Hence three traction ropes are fastened at the top of the machine.
That year the threshing was done in the fields with a traction engine.
A traction engine is also employed in hauling the product of the mines.
One party falls in road, and is run over by traction engine.
If you want a traction engine for threshing, etc., stick to steam.
It is something of a trick to handle a traction engine on the road.
Then, when we all felt fit, we returned to the traction engine.
We believe Energize Pro will gain positive traction with aging Americans who seek a more active and sports related lifestyle.
The traction of the knobbly tyres is also very good and the bikes seem to float over soft sand, mud, roots, rocks and snow.
Every one has since he commenced consolidating interurban traction companies.
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