The pendulum car was an experimental tilting coach built by the Pacific Railway Equipment Company (PERC) in the early 1940s. It used an innovative coiled spring suspension system that allowed the cars to lean into curves, thus increasing passenger comfort during high speed travel. PERC built three cars which were tested on American railroads throughout the 1940s, but the advent of World War II, and their high cost relative to conventional equipment, prevented their wider adoption.
The pendulumcar was an experimental tilting coach built by the Pacific Railway Equipment Company (PERC) in the early 1940s. It used an innovative coiled...
in the post-war era. In 1956, SNCF experimented with a self-propelled pendulumcar, which also relied on centrifugal force. This experiment demonstrated...
com/watch?v=aCocQa2Bcuc A double pendulum is a simple pendulum hanging under another one; the epitome of the compound pendulum system[according to whom?]....
systems also uses the torsion spring principle. The torsion pendulum used in torsion pendulum clocks is a wheel-shaped weight suspended from its center...
AC Cars, originally incorporated as Auto Carriers Ltd., is a British specialist automobile manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car makers founded...
oscillation of a compound pendulum is obtained from the ratio of the torque imposed by gravity on the mass of the pendulum to the resistance to acceleration...
crew). December 22 – The Pacific Railway Equipment Company's prototype pendulumcar, an early example of a tilting train, begins testing on the Atchison...
A centrifugal pendulum absorber is a type of tuned mass damper. It reduces the amplitude of a torsional vibration in drive trains that use a combustion...
holds the cord in one hand and allows the pendulum to swing freely. The dowser then observes how the pendulum is swinging and interprets the motion to...
position of the pendulum's centre of mass, reducing the effective length of the pendulum rod and hence increasing the rate at which the pendulum swings. Adding...
provided by one or more gyroscopes, and in one example, connected to two pendulums by a rack and pinion. The concept was originally described in fiction...
increasing the Liberal lead to 54 votes. This is an excerpt of the pre-election pendulum, based on notional margins calculated by the ABC's Antony Green. Members...
the rocket would achieve stability by "hanging" from the engine like a pendulum in flight. However, the rocket veered off course and crashed 184 feet (56 m)...
The control of a unicycle can be considered to be similar to an inverted pendulum. Many electric unicycles have suspension, either operated by air or springs...
Booster (Fabbri ride), a pendulum ride Booster (HUSS ride), an evolution of the Breakdance ride Booster (KMG ride), a pendulum ride Booster, a character...
The Porsche 356 is a sports car that was first produced by Austrian company Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948–1949), and then by German company Dr....
turbines to generate electricity. An old and simple application is the pendulum clock driven by a weight, which at 1 kg and 1 m travel can store nearly...
and accepted. SlipAlert is a matchbox car-like tribometer that is designed to mimic the readings of the pendulum. Manufactured in the United Kingdom, it...
Billboard 200 album charts and No. 11 on Billboard's Soul Albums chart. Pendulum, released in December 1970, was another top seller, spawning a Top 10 hit...
from rest in one second; a pendulum of length about one meter has a swing of one second, so pendulum clocks have pendulums about a meter long; the fastest...
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