THUNDERGOD BEETLE

THUNDERGOD BEETLEYou can put on the car 4, 8… even 16 wheels. However, in the tundra, for example, even this machine will not work and kilometers. And no wonder that whole design teams engaged in the search for new propulsion, which would come to replace the wheel and provided all-weather cargo delivery, hauling of the forest, the work of the search parties… Already established for this purpose samples of tracked vehicles with very broad, almost 1.5 m tracks, snegokatov, hovercrafts.

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TRACTOR-UNIVERSAL

TRACTOR-UNIVERSALThis tractor for almost 20 years, and all these years he not only regularly serves his Creator A. A. Safenano from the village of Alexandrov, the Tambov region, but also constantly improving. A feature of the car is a bucket-loader which is quite rare among self-made designs. This device is good because it optionally can be used as a blade, for example, when clearing snow from roads.

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ELECTROBOILER

ELECTROBOILERWant to offer readers to build an electric scooter. However, this is only an idea, without detailed development. This electrosolar can be made at home, using the components of industrial scooters. Bearing parts can be made of pipe of suitable diameter.

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STARTED WITH BALLOON

It was built of plain newsprint. This simple design N. V. Rumyantsev, the head of one of clubs of young technicians of Ryazan, was able to captivate the children, introduce them to technical creativity. Did snowmobile, scooter. But, apparently, remained in boys, the call of the sky. Manufactured glider. And now, according to a snapshot Read more…

THE WIND SAIL AND… WHEEL

WIND SAIL AND... WHEELHistorians say that the sail appeared on land about four thousand years ago! Fiction? No – there is documentary evidence. In 1953 the Italian archaeological expedition at the excavations of the temple of Ptolemy near the town of Medinet MADI discovered the remains of the ancient land of the sailing ship. Designed and manufactured it was under the leadership of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemhet III (1849 – 1801 BC). It was a rook, which floated on the Nile at first, and then mounted on four wooden wheels. Two four-meter mast stretched colored sails. The inscription found in the desert of basalt polished slab read: “Pharaoh Amenemhet III traveled from here across the desert to Medinet in a sailing boat driven by the wind.”

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“KIDS” — THE GREEN LIGHT!

In recent years the streets and roads of our country are increasingly the miniature machine, in appearance something of a cross between a kid’s scooter, a moped and a scooter. Their drivers are surprisingly deftly maneuver in a city stream, “not getting tangled in the legs” at large, “real” car and motorbike and however not at all inferior to them in speed.

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