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Definition of Gearless
1. being without gears [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gearless
Literary usage of Gearless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Locomotive Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which Designate by George Little Fowler, American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (1906)
"Interior of gearless Motor Field. Westinghouse AC Electric Locomotive. Fig. 4600.
Skeleton Field Frame for gearless Motor. Westinghouse A'. ..."
2. Electric Railway Engineering by Horace Field Parshall, Henry Metcalf Hobart (1907)
"BALTIMORE AND OHIO 1896 gearless SIX-POLE LOCOMOTIVE. COMPLETE WEIGHT, 87 METRIC
TONS. armature is ... gearless. Number of trucks, 2. Number of motors, 4. ..."
3. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"Manufacturers of gearless traction-machines have claimed that the use of the
helical gear, for example, for elevator-machines, being a relatively recent ..."
4. The Architects' and Builders' Pocket-book: A Handbook for Architects by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Geared Versus gearless Types of Elevators. (See, also, page 1589. ... The principal
demerit elevator-machines of the gearless type is their relatively high ..."
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