Mahovos
Mahovos noun: a device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy flywheel.
Noun
Mahovos
- A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy flywheel.
- For this purpose, on the axes of the friction wheels which sustain the Mahovos, there is a second pair of wheels somewhat smaller, and nearer the middle, which ordinarily run out of contact with anything.1869, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts, page 160
- Among other important novelties in mechanical science exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and brought to our notice by the admirable report of Dr. Barnard, of Columbia College, is one called the "mahovos," the invention of a Russian engineer, which, it is though, contains the germ of an...1870, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 40, page 933
Origin of Mahovos
Russian?
Questions about Mahovos
- What does Mahovos mean?
- Mahovos means a device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy flywheel.
- What part of speech is Mahovos?
- Mahovos is a noun.
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