- Armored Car by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a wheeled combat vehicle with armor and weapons, intended for reconnaissance, security, and communications. The first armored cars, equipped with cannon and machine guns, were built in England in 1900-02 and were used in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). The Russian Army possessed approximately 160 armored cars by the end of World War I (1914-18). In ...
- knuckle man by Max Hansen
... mining engineering) A worker who connects mine cars to and disconnects them from cables and also couples cars into trains.
- Refrigerator Car by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... .The first refrigerator cars were built in Russia in 1862. By 1917 there were approximately 6,000 small, two-axle refrigerator cars of various types. In 1926 the Briansk Locomotive Construction Plant began producing four-axle refrigerator cars with a load capacity of up to 30 tons, and later 49 tons.A distinction is made between multipurpose refrigerator ...
- railroad by sarah banks
... civil engineering) A permanent line of rails forming a route for freight cars and passenger cars drawn by locomotives.
- electric automobile by Alexandria Schultz
Battery-powered motor vehicle. Originating in the 1880s, electric cars were used for private passenger, truck, and bus transportation in cities, where their low speeds and limited battery range were not drawbacks, and the cars became popular for their quietness and low maintenance costs...