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Man and Boy. (sculpture) / 50.397145; -3.510708. Man and Boy is a statue situated at King's Quay on the harbour of Brixham, Devon, England. It is the result of a long fundraising effort; the residents of the town raised £76,000 for its construction. [1] The monument was created in clay by the local sculptor Elisabeth Hadley and cast in bronze ...
Morwellham Quay. Coordinates: 50°30′19″N 04°11′37″W. The 32 ft (9.8 m) overshot water wheel, which once powered a mill for crushing locally mined manganese. Elevated railway at Morwellham Quay. The Great Dock and the restored Tamar sailing ship Garlandstone. Morwellham Quay is an historic river port in Devon, England that developed to ...
Rota Fortunae. From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel. In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the ...
Quayside. Coordinates: 54°58′08″N 1°36′17″W. The view westwards along the Tyne Valley. The Quayside is an area along the banks ( quay) of the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne (the north bank) and Gateshead (south bank) in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom .
The Singapore Flyer, a Ferris wheel in Singapore. A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually ...
A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel ( Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It reconnects the two canals for the first time since the 1930s. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project.
The name "Quay" honors Matthew S. Quay, a Civil War veteran who became a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania in 1887. While in office, Quay became a proponent of statehood for the Territory of New Mexico and was appreciated throughout the state for his efforts. [2] New Mexico was admitted as the 47th state in the Union on January 6, 1912.
The mecanum wheel is a form of tireless wheel, with a series of rubberized external rollers obliquely attached to the whole circumference of its rim. These rollers typically each have an axis of rotation at 45° to the wheel plane and at 45° to the axle line. [3] Each Mecanum wheel is an independent non-steering drive wheel with its own ...