When I was 10 years old my father gave me a task which to the average kid wouldn’t honor but I did. My father told me to help him change the oil to his car, he couldn’t bend over because of his back surgery and I’m not of age to drive it to the mechanics. Now at this point in my life, the only thing I know about cars is that a Hot Wheels racecars only moves when you push them. So he began first by showing me where to place the jack and how to use it so I can lift the car in the air. Before I placed the jack he told me “always remember to pull the emergency break before lifting the car, so the tires lock”. Then I begin to pump the jack so the car lifts and My father stops me again and shouts what are you doing!? I said I’m lifting the car up
A mousetrap-powered car is a vehicle that powers up and moves by the energy of a wound-up mousetrap’s spring. Its main components are the mousetrap, long metal rod, and the fishing line. In order to make the car work, the rod was wounded-up (wrapped) around the fishing line that had one end attached to the drive axle and the other end to the arm of the mousetrap, which pulls the snapper's lever arm closer to the drive axle. When the arms were released, the tension of the spring pulled the string off the axle. As a result, the fishing line string unraveled, causing the axle and the wheels to rotate, propelling the vehicle. There are various forms of energy that are involved with this car. First, it started off as potential (stored) energy that came from when the mousetrap was set by wounding the spring around the axle by the turning of the wheels, which caused the snapper’s lever arm to pull closer to the drive axle and the spring in the center was compressed. Since every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the trap was released, most of the potential energy converted into kinetic (motion) energy, propelling the snapper arm forward. However, not all of the energy was converted into kinetic energy, as some of it was lost to the force of friction. Friction helped to spin the wheels and progress the car forward as when the string was pulled, friction between it and the axle caused the axle to rotate. In addition, the outside forces of friction caused the car to slow down and eventually come to a stop. Since energy cannot be destroyed, when the car came to a stop, the friction converted into thermal and heat energy.
Have you ever wondered, “Why did this happen?” or “How did this happen?” When riding four wheelers you don't want anything important to fall off of them, but luck is not always on your side. Dalton was riding in the field next to his house with his cousin Branden, and later with his brother Garrett. As they were riding through the corn husks, the end piece of the muffler came loose and fell off of Dalton’s four wheeler.
Driving. While I haven’t had the greatest experiences with driving related problems; I’ve run into some pretty funny ones. When I was about four years old my family was over at my grandpa’s putting in a well for him. I of course was sitting in the unattended van on the top of the hill in the back seat. While many people would think that it was completely safe and there’s nothing to worry about they are wrong. You see I was a clever little toddler and could at that time unbuckle herself and climb over the center console right into the front seat. Also being the genius child that I was I managed to switch the car from park to neutral and begin to roll down the hill. Now I don 't remember my mom and the other adults running towards the van to
...”. So I stood up not caring how bad I hurt. I ask him to give me a push. He had a worried look on his face as he said, “sure”. I think he saw the blood running down my face and my jersey ripped open with my cut filled with dirt and blood forming bloody mud. He started my bike and I crawled on. He pulled the clutch in since I couldn’t move my arm and pushed me down a hill and released it. I felt a quick jerk as it kicked into gear. I stayed in first gear as I pulled into the pits.
On the night of Friday, the 13th a confusing battle ensued at Skooter’s Roadhouse located in Shorewood, Illinois. The venue, hosting an “annual Halloween themed party,” lacked audience's attention even with an incentive of no-cover-charge. In attendance for the event was D.J Bernie Mac, a ghost in the search box, and FOOL HOUSE, a 5-piece cover band playing strictly ‘90s music. To add to the ambivalence of the night, the venue split into two sections with the D.J performing on one side and the band on the other. It made the 50+ in attendance waver in and out of each other’s set. Unable to fully capture the room, which was made up of mostly 30-something-year-olds, FOOL HOUSE retained the majority of the audience for the night.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America was shifting into a new modern era. At this time, there were many changes trying to be arranged by the citizens of the country. Social activism was widespread in this era. This era was created from various developments, events, and individuals. Developments such as the automobile and flight played a major role in the 1900’s.
I've been four wheeling since I was about three. Id say its pretty fun when you're not busy crashing. My favorite thing about four wheeling is having the wind blow in my face, it makes me feel free in a way. When i'm with my family four wheeling nothing can stop us so you better watch out. My best experience while riding a four wheeler was when I was about nine my grandpa and my four year old sister were together on one four wheeler and I was on my own we were riding down the road when my grandpa said “ Aryona do you want to go down there?” i was a little scared at first, but he told me it would be okay, so i said “yes.” Once we got down there I was happy I decided to go because It was awesome! One of my favorite things about
As James Flink points out in The Automobile Age, the village store and the local banks were the businesses most vulnerable to the new competition (47). Robert E. Wood, former vice president of Sears, explains how businesses moved to the suburbs, "When the automobile reached the masses, it changed this condition [the funneling of consumers into the town centre] and made shopping mobile. In the great cities Sears located its stores well outside the main shopping districts, on cheap land, usually on arterial highways, with ample parking space (Wollen 13)." Thus city centers came to be seen as sites of congestion, whereas the surrounding areas were regarded as accessible and convenient. The rapid proliferation of shopping complexes outside of the city center in the 1950s left down town a crime-ridden wasteland of vacated stores. City centers no longer featured traditional shops; instead they contained gas stations, parking lots, and inns whose focus was on the travelers and their cars (Wollen 13).
From Ancient Mesopotamia came a revolutionary tool that has crystallized the world into the complex civilization it is today, the wheel. The wheel has commutated the very way we live and think about the world and all credit goes to Ancient Mesopotamia for providing this life changing invention. Wheels are everywhere we look and in places that you wouldn't even think. Wheels are used everyday in some way or another and come in many sizes and innumerable different materials and purposes. This prodigious invention has helped ancient Mesopotamians work, move, and live and still helps us today.
The car is in good shape just in need of a wash, wax, and a detail. Most of all though it needs a motor tune up and a new set of tires that don 't go flat in two days. That day they were working on the motor installing some new pumps and a new transmission that he had been given for christmas. My brother is helping him learning how to do things because he wants to be a mechanic someday. The boys are covered in gas and oil from head to toe but they are at least getting stuff done so we can drive the car to take my senior pictures in a few weeks. I remember dad telling me stories about driving that car he would tell me about how he had togo 10 miles per hour on his way home on the dirt road so he wouldn’t have to wash his car everyday. My favorite is when he was telling me about the old days when he would race his car against his buddies. The guys had the gas pump pulled off of the
Another element that was seen in the 1950’s were the tail-fins present on most Cadillacs. The first Cadillac that had the tail fin was introdu...
The Invention of The Automobile The first automobile was invented in Europe, however the automobile industry had an enormous favorable impact on the United States economy. Brown & Co. 329) There was not one specific person who "invented the automobile," but, there were many people who contributed to the invention of the automobile. (Ingrassia, 5) (Boyne, 31) These people include Isaac Newton, who developed a power carriage in the fourteen twenties, and Joseph Cugnot, who built the first steam powered automobile in seventeen sixty nine.
He said he just need a tune up and some work done on the carburetor. It was a little older car, but it too, like my Camaro, was very nice. He was a busy man and asked if I would pick it up directly from his house and bring it to my father’s shop for him. I complied with his request and set off for his house. Once I got there, I climbed into his car and tried to start it. It didn’t start, and was making some weird noises. I got out of the car and began going through a checklist on why it wouldn’t start. The car had enough gas, and the battery was at full charge. I decided to check the oil. I opened the hood and pulled the oil dipstick out of the tube. I just about passed out. The car was out of oil! I just ruined this mans car. I committed this mistake, which means I was responsible to fix it. I called the owner of the car and told him what happened. He was not happy to say the least. He used some very harsh and inappropriate words, and I promised him that I would fix his car within the next week. Now fixing a car that has been run out of oil is a very time consuming and costly task, so I was a slight bit
I lived with my father for my entire life, but due to his work I did not spend much time with him. My father worked at a different city; and thus he comes home only a few times a month. My father is a mechanic. He works at a company that is distant from our home. This was due to the company being the only one and the first where cars were being assembled in Ethiopia. Sometimes on the weekends I used to go to his work place. He would give me a trip of the place; the station was filled with vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles. It was separated by sections. In each section there were only one type of vehicle and the assembly process was shown step by step. From a fuse to large engine of the car, components were getting attached.
The cable car jerked forward unsteadily. It halted. The ancient cables beginning to corrode. The thirty people inside yelling and screaming with terror. They began to panic.