High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The beginnings of Yamaha XS650 reach all the way back to 1955 and the HOSK SOHC 500 twin. After about 10 years of producing 500 twin, HOSK engineers went on and designed 650cc twin. Later the HOSK was acquired by Showa Corporation, and in 1960 Yamaha had bought Showa with HOSKs early design of 650cc twin. When the Yamaha XS 650 was launched in 1968 it had one of the most advanced engines in its class of large parallel twin motorcycles. The engine and gearbox are unit construction with the crankcase split horizontally for ease of assembly whereas almost all contemporaries in its class in 1968 are either unit construction with a vertically-split crankcase or pre-unit construction with separate...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-3162-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yamaha DragStar 650 (also known as the V Star 650 and the XVS650/XVS650A) is a motorcycle produced by Yamaha Motor Company. Based on the Yamaha Virago 535 engine, the Dragstar (named V Star in USA) cylinders were bored an additional 5 mm to 81 mm and stroked 4 mm more to 63 mm, to net a displacement of 649 cc. The Dragstar comes in two models. The custom with a lower seat height 695.96 mm (27.400 in) and slightly less weight, and the classic with a higher seat height of 708.66 mm (27.900 in). The custom is approximately 227 kg (500 lb) and the classic approximately 2 kg heavier 229 kg (500 lb). The Yamaha DragStar 650 is sold in the U.S. as the entry-level versions of the V-Star line. That...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-2792-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yamaha Golf Car is golf cart product line produced by Yamaha Motor Company. Yamaha golf cars are presently manufactured at two factories, the Kakegawa factory in Japan, and the Atlanta factory in the USA. In 2000 the factories produced 8,000 and 40,000 carts, respectively. Yamaha has maintained a domestic market share of about 57% in Japan. In the USA Yamaha ranks behind Club Car and E-Z-GO who each have 37% and 35% market share. The first model, G-1, was produced in 1979 with a gas engine. An electric version was later available in 1980. The last of the G-series was the G22. Their newest platform is "The Drive" golf car (YDR) available in 2007. The Yamaha G1 had a 2-stroke engine. The G2-G9...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-2523-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yamaha TDM is an 849 cc two-cylinder motorcycle, manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company of Japan, that first came out in 1991. With a lot of torque, and 78 horsepower, it is considered to be a very good all-rounder. It was imported into the United States for only two years, 1992 and 1993. It was never a big seller in the United Kingdom but in Northern Europe sales were very strong. In 1996 Yamaha released the Mk2 TDM with updated bodywork and a 270 degree instead of a 360 degree firing order. This upgraded engine was first seen on the Japanese market in 1995, when Yamaha introduced the TRX850. In 2001 the 3rd incarnation of TDM arrived, the TDM 900 again with new bodywork, 6 speed...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-3854-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yamaha Nouvo is a small CVT underbone bodied motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor. It was introduced in April 2002 for Southeast Asia markets and In 2004, Brazil, where it was renamed the Yamaha Neo. Nouvo is from the French word Nouveau, which means new or fashionable. The Nouvo was developed under the model code "AT115" and in April 2002, and marketed in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and other ASEAN countries. Yamaha engineers intended to develop the frame with the same or higher level of rigidity as a moped bike in order to achieve a moped-like ride and good handling performance but also have the same level of comfort as a scooter. This vehicle is powered by a 4-stroke, SOHC 2-valve...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-2874-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yamaha T135 is an underbone motorcycle. It is also known as the Spark 135 in Thailand, Sniper in the Philippines, Jupiter MX in Indonesia, 135LC in Malaysia, Exciter in Vietnam, and T 135 Crypton X in Greece. It is made by Yamaha Motor Company and powered by a liquid-cooled 134.4 cc (8.20 cu in) 4-stroke engine. This underbone is fit for circuit racing than his rival Honda Sonic 125 and the Suzuki Raider 150 and one of the most fastest 4 stroke underbone in the asia. In 2008, the fuel-injected version of the Yamaha Spark 135 was launched for the Thai market, making it the second underbone motorcycle using fuel injection after the Honda Wave 125i. There are 3 main Yamaha factories that assembles...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-3537-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The NS Yamal is a Russian Arktika class nuclear powered icebreaker operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company. It is named after the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Siberia; the name means End of the Land in Nenets. Laid down in Leningrad in 1986, and launched in October 1992, after the end of communism in Russia, she never filled her designed role of keeping shipping lanes open. She has always carried passengers on arctic excursions. Yamal took an excursion to the North Pole to celebrate the Millennium. Yamal is the 12th surface ship ever to reach the north pole. The Yamal is equipped with a double hull. The outer hull is 48 mm thick where ice is met and 25 mm elsewhere and has a polymer coating...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-4568-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Australia. It is built on the Plenty River a tributary of the Yarra River, 30 km north of the city. A 9.5 metre embankment holds back 30,000 megalitres (30 million cubic metres) of water. Work began in 1853 at the height of the gold rush, and it took four years to construct at a cost of 750,000. The reservoir is managed by Melbourne Water as part of the water supply system for Melbourne. At the time of its construction in 1857 it was the largest artificial reservoir in the world. It was designed by James Blackburn, an English and former London sanitary inspector who was transported to Tasmania as a convict following...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-8998-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yanbara Dam, in the Fukui prefecture, is the dam which is constructed to Nine Headed-Dragon River water system of the Nine-head Dragon River. With a gravity type arch dam design 45 metres (148 ft) tall, it is the dam for generation of electricity, forming the lower reservoir of the pumping-up hydraulic power plant, Nagano power plant, of the same company. It generates the electric power of the maximum of 220,000 kilowatts. In 1957, as for development of electric power resources the hydroelectric power plant construction plan in Nine Head Dragon, Kawakami style sections was announced. At this point in time as for construction of the Yanbara dam of course, power generation with pumped-up water...

ISBN: 978-6-1311-9524-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yanco Powerhouse Museum is located at Binua Street in Yanco, New South Wales Australia. Yanco Power Station was built in 1913 to supply power to the MIA (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area), when power was required for general lightning and for the Leeton Butter Factory. The site on which it was constructed was chosen as it was close to the Yanco railway line for obtaining coal and close to a water source which would be used for condensing water using a secondhand 75 KW generator. 6.5 kilometers of transmission lines were installed on flexible steel poles erected which were the first of their kind in Australia. The station's construction is concrete. In 1937 the five story building was extended. It...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-0309-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yang Guanghua, or Guang-Hwa Yang was a notable Chinese educator and chemical engineer. Yang was former President of China University of Petroleum, and a pioneer of China's oil industry. Yang was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province, on 10 Apr 1923. In 1945 he graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. He was a teaching assistant in the same department. In 1948, Yang went to study in the United States, and obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1951. Yang went back to China in May 1951. Yang was a professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. In 1953, Yang joined to found the Beijing Petroleum...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-1115-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yang Cheng Tong is a contactless rechargeable stored value smartcard designed for paying the travel fares in the metro, buses, taxis and ferries in Guangzhou, China and surrounding cities, namely Foshan, Huadu, Zengcheng and Panyu. It is built and managed by Guangzhou Yang Cheng Tong Limited Guangzhou Public Transport Data Control Center. The card is also sometimes accepted by city merchants, zoos, restaurants, parking meters, and in other establishments as payment. With the card holder's personal information stored in the Yang Cheng Tong, further functions can be applied, such as access control of buildings and roll call in school. The system was successfully launched in 30 December, 2001....

ISBN: 978-6-1312-0669-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yank Tank is a slang term which has two meanings. Yank tank or maquina are the words used to describe the many classic cars (for example: 1957 Chevrolet, 1953 Ford, 1958 Chrysler, etc…) present in Cuba with an “estimated 60,000” of them still driving the roads today. In 1962 an embargo was placed on Cuba by the United States, effectively cutting trade between the countries. This meant that the cars in Cuba, could no longer receive new replacement parts when something broke. Currently, the only way to keep these cars on the road today is by using Cuban ingenuity to adapt household products and Soviet technology into these vehicles. If a car is unable to be repaired at the time, the car is...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-4276-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yankee (also known as Machigonne) is an early-20th century steel hulled ferry which is registered as an historic vessel with the National Register of Historic Places . As of 2006 it was berthed in Hoboken, New Jersey. Described as unusually luxurious for a day-voyaging vessel, Yankee was built in 1907 by the Philadelphian shipbuilding company Neafie Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1312-4337-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yankee Cannonball is a wooden out-and-back roller coaster built in 1930 at Lakewood Park and relocated in 1936 to Canobie Lake Park, Salem, New Hampshire. The roller coaster was designed by Herbert Paul Schmeck of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. Its serial number is 86. In 1930, it was installed (under the name "Roller Coaster") into Lakewood Park, in Waterbury, Connecticut. Frank F. Hoover oversaw the construction. The coaster operated in Connecticut for only five years before being closed and moved to Canobie Lake Park. Rechristened the Yankee Cannonball, named in commemoration of the American Civil War, the coaster's train colors were originally blue and gray, representing the Union and...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-4403-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station (decommissioned) was a nuclear power plant in Rowe, Massachusetts, that operated from 1960 to 1992. The Yankee Nuclear Power Station - also known as "Yankee Rowe" - was the third commercial nuclear power plant built in the United States and the first built in New England. The 167-megawatt electric pressurized-water Yankee Rowe plant, located on the Deerfield River in the town of Rowe in western Massachusetts, permanently shut down on February 26, 1992 after more than 31 years of producing electricity for New England electric consumers. Construction of the plant was completed in 1960 at a cost of $39 million. During its 32-year operating history, the Yankee...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-4708-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yankee class is the NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was constructed by the Soviet Union from 1968 onward. 34 units were produced under Project 667A Navaga (after the fish) and Project 667AU Nalim ("burbot"). 24 were built at Severodvinsk for the Northern Fleet while the remaining 10 built in Komsomolsk-na-Amurye for the Pacific Fleet. Two Northern Fleet units were transferred to the Pacific. The lead unit K-137 Leninets, receiving its honorific name 11 April 1970, two and one half years after being commissioned. The Yankees were the first class of Soviet subs to have comparable ballistic missile firepower to their American counterparts. Yankee subs were...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-4850-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yanks Air Museum is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to exhibiting, preserving and restoring American aircraft and artifacts. The Chino facility of Yanks Air Museum houses the largest private collection of American WWII fighters and dive bombers in the world. The aircraft collection now numbers more than 160 aircraft and continues to grow, many are the last surviving examples of their kind. Yanks restores all aircraft to airworthy condition, in the restoration of these rare aircraft, only original factory specifications and materials are used. The Chino facility encompasses 124,000 square foot under roof and covers ten acres. In addition to the display hangars, public access...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-5216-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yanmar 2GM20 is an inboard marine diesel engine manufactured by the Japanese company Yanmar Co. Ltd.. It is used in a wide range of sailboats and motorboats. It is a four-stroke, vertical, water cooled diesel engine. It is built around two cylinders (hence the "2" in 2GM20) of 75mm in length and 72mm in stroke, adding up to 0.635 liters in displacement: each cylinder is roughly the size and volume of a 300ml soft-drink can. The compression system uses a proprietary swirl-type pre-combustion chamber. The continuous rating output at the crankshaft is 11.8 kW, and 3400 revolutions per minute (rpm). The maximum output at crankshaft is 13.4 kW, and 3600 rpm. The engine delivers roughly 20...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-5391-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yantai Raffles Shipyard is a shipbuilding company in Yantai, Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China. Yantai Raffles specializes in offshore and marine fabrication and was listed on the Oslo OTC system in Norway in May 2006. In 1994, Brian Chang founded Yantai Raffles at the junction of Bo Hai Bay and the Yellow Sea. The shipyard is in close proximity to Korea and Japan, an area that accounts for 80% of the global shipbuilding capacity. YRS is the only shipyard in China to be majority foreign-owned.It has agreed to acquire 100% of the Sanlian Longkou shipyard in Shandong, China. Brian Chang founded YRS in 1994. Previously, he has worked with various companies in Singapore and Malaysia in...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-7171-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yao Tongbin was a Chinese scientist and an expert in missile and aerospace materials and technology. Yao was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the department of metallurgy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in July 1945, and obtained a doctorate of engineering from University of Birmingham in UK in 1951. After returning to China in September 1957, Yao served in the fifth research institute affiliated to Ministry of National Defense, headed by Qian Xuesen. He helped found the Institute of Materials and Technology (later affiliated to 7th Ministry of Mechanical Industry) and became the director. Yao was persecuted in Cultural Revolution, and was beaten to death on June 8, 1968, at...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-7674-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cameroon Air Force (French: Armee de l'Air du Cameroun) is the air force of the African nation of Cameroon. The Cameroon Air Force, along with the Cameroon Army, the Cameroon Navy (including the Naval Infantry), the National Gendarmerie, and the Presidential Guard make up the Cameroonian Armed Forces.An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport. An airport consists of at least one surface such as a runway, a helipad, or water for takeoffs and landings, and often includes buildings such as hangars and terminal buildings. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-6-1303-2355-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yara International ASA (OSE: YAR) is a Norwegian-based company which is the world's largest producer of nitrogenous mineral fertilizer. The core business of Yara is production and marketing of nitrogen fertilizer such as urea and nitrates. Yara also produces and sells ammonia, the key raw material for all nitrogen fertilizers. The company was created on March 26, 2004 when Norsk Hydro's Hydro Agri division containing all the company's fertilizer business, was spun off as a separately stock-listed company. Hydro distributed all its Yara shares to Hydro's shareholders and presently has no ownership in Yara. Yara's main office is located in Oslo. In May 2007 Yara bought 30.05% of Finnish...

ISBN: 978-6-1312-9136-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A yardramp, sometimes called mobile yardramp or container ramp, is a movable metal ramp for loading and unloading of shipping containers and vehicle trailers, without the need for permanent docking bays. A yardramp is placed at the back of a vehicle to provide access for forklifts to ascend the ramp, quickly and safely into the container or truck body. Using a yardramp for container loading or unloading allows the work to be carried out by a single forklift operator. Businesses handling only one or two loads per day normally find that a yardramp is more cost effective than a permanent loading dock. Containers, trucks and trailers are typically loaded / unloaded from the rear by reversing the...

ISBN: 978-6-1313-0571-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Yard Light is a free standing light source, often electrical or natural gas, usually placed near an outdoor path or driveway to provide visibility in dark areas or areas that become dark at certain times. Electric yard lights are often controlled remotely from inside a building by a switch or by a Photoelectric sensor attached to the lamp or a building nearby. Gas lights usually burn continually. Yard lamps must withstand all sorts of weather, snow, ice, rain, wind, and therefore must be securely sealed. Any water that gets inside can shatter the bulb, short circuit the wiring, or extinguish the flame. Yard Lights should be the correct size for the distance that is desired to be lighted. A...

ISBN: 978-6-1313-0559-7
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