10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLIDING SEAT»
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sliding seat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sliding seat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The most significant revolutionary idea to transform the sport was the sliding seat.
This is something that you can say really did change the sport. It significantly
altered the skills, technique, and equipment involved in rowing. However, it's ...
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Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime
The invention of the sliding seat, however, is unquestionably the most important
improvement that has yet taken place in connection with rowing- boats. The full
importance of it will hardly be appreciated until we come to racing-boats.
Hoffmann (Professor), 1897
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The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports
Not only could a longer stroke be rowed with less difficulty than before, but
through the medium of the sliding seat the whole power of the oarsman was
brought into play. The sliding stroke was practised before the sliding seat was
adopted.
If the thwart is made to accommodate a sliding seat, the canoeist will be able to
get his weight well out over the windward side to ballast the canoe. Extra long
clamps rigged to hold the thwart in position distribute the strain over a larger
section ...
5
Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction
The sliding seat is of great advantage to canoe sailing, for the power of a sailing
canoe is that of the weight of its crew sitting to windward. In England, we are
forced to lay out, which is a strain, but, with the sliding seat there is no strain, as
the ...
FACING TACE SLIDING SEAT 38 No. 3. Arms extended on recovery SLIDING
SEAT 38 No. 4. Body swinging forward and carrying slide SLIDING SEAT 46 No.
5. Blade beginning to turn off feather SLIDING SEAT 46 No. 6. Position of hands ...
Rudolf Chambers Lehmann, Frederick Septimus Kelly, Raymond Broadley Etherington-Smith, 1908
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Rowing: Training - Fitness - Leisure
... position during the first part of the pull on the oar, and the use of the slide- path
is determined by the setting of the stretcher. Rigger and Gate From the
construction of the rigger – 37 THE ROWER'S EQUIPMENT Sliding Seat and
Slide-path.
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Lubrication and Maintenance of Industrial Machinery: Best ...
... Sliding Block/shaft Fretting Directional control valves Spool/body Sliding Spool
Erosion Proportional and servo valves Spool/body Sliding Jet nozzle Erosion
Spool Erosion Pressure control valves Spool/body Sliding Seat/poppet Impact
Seat ...
Robert M. Gresham, George E. Totten, 2008
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
ARM-CHAIR WITH ADJUSTABLE SLIDING SEAT AND BACK. Benjamin Balser,
Des Moines, Iowa. Filed July 27, 1914. Serial No. 853,390. (CI. 155—13.) 1. A
chair comprising spaced upright side supports having rigid arm rests on their
upper ...
You should have the feeling that every lateral muscle, running from your hips up
through your side and back muscles, and down to your fingertips, is being
stretched, while the sliding seat remains stationary. Think about the important
skeletal ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLIDING SEAT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
sliding seat is used in the context of the following news items.
Movable, Sliding Seats Will Debut in Australia vs. New Zealand Test …
Some very lucky fans will try out sliding seats for the first time when Australia take on New Zealand at the start of the Rugby Championship in Sydney on August ... «Bleacher Report, Aug 14»
Infiniti JX35's Sliding Seat Not Very Booster-Friendly
While they're no longer in forward-facing five-point-harness safety seats, which were used at the auto show to demonstrate the JX's slide feature, my two ... «Cars.com News, Dec 12»
Sliding seat design claims to cut passenger boarding time
The system works by enabling the outer seat to slide over the middle seat, increasing aisle width from 19 inches to 43 inches and allowing passengers to move ... «Daily Mail, Sep 12»
Sliding seat invention could speed aircraft boarding
This sliding seat idea is nothing more than a bandaid solution to what is increasingly becoming a concern to me. All that heavy oversized “hand luggage” in the ... «Crikey, Sep 12»
