THE FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Categories Auto Moto Service

FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRYThe Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.

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THE LAST CAR OF THE LEADER

Categories Auto show

THE LAST CAR OF THE LEADERExecutive cars, leading descended from the Royal gilded carriage ride with the “power plant” of about a dozen horses in harness, appeared at the beginning of the XX century. And they have become quite reliable and safe -the monarchs, the highest state officials, as well as “owners of factories, Newspapers, steamships” the race began to order entered suddenly in Vogue cars-limousines.

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THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

Categories Design

THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

The snowmobile, which, the story goes, collected the tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamenka. This is not surprising. Equipment guy is fond of since childhood – for eight years, he has been in the CCC (children’s creativity Center) to the circle of “Small appliances”. In a compilation of drawings and design layout and transmission schemes of machine assisted group leader Viktor Aleksandrovich Kurbatov. Responsible welding works helped to run his father – Boris Andreevich. Everything else until the processing of parts on machine tools, has fulfilled himself. In total, Sergei built a snowmobile for about a year, the Assembly took almost four months, from autumn to spring. And until the snow melted, I managed it only to test, “Ispahan” everything drifts around the house. But now revealed some shortcomings, which for the next season is going to be eliminated.

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TUBE WITH CAP

Categories Country house

PIPE WITH CAP

The owners of the houses with stove heating know how difficult it is to melt the cooled furnace (fireplace or heater), especially in rainy windy weather. Will pay in the truest sense because the smoke at first is often not the pipe, but rather into the room. This problem is especially relevant for those owners of garden and country houses, which are frequented there in the cold season only as needed.
Out in the presence of electricity with the help of vacuum cleaner and cut the curved steel pipe of suitable length and diameter, which must be installed inside the trunk of the chimney with the release of its lower end through the wall, as shown in the figure. When emptying a vacuum cleaner at the top of the pipe of the air flow outside, will create a vacuum and thereby increase traction.

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