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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Controls equipment that tilts railroad cars to dump grain into receiving hopper for transfer to storage elevator: Pulls lever to activate clamp that fastens car into position on dumping platform. Breaks car seal and pushes open sliding door. Starts conveyor leading from receiving hopper into elevator, and energizes electromagnet which removes metal from grain. Receives signals, and pushes and pulls levers of dumping machinery in sequence to tilt and jog car until car is empty. Returns car to upright position and releases holding mechanism. May remove wood and paper falling from tipped car, using grappling hooks. May guide grain from car, using wood or metal plank. May pull box cars onto and off of dumping platform, using winch and cable. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rotary coal car unloader, Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-l-n-o-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: carronade. | |
-3 letters: aurorean, calendar, cauldron, colander, conelrad, crunodal, oracular, rancored, unloader. | |
-4 letters: acerola, adorner, adrenal, aleuron, areolar, aureola, aurorae, auroral, calando, caldera, caldron, canaled, candela, candler, candour, canulae, carload, caroled, caroler, celadon, cloured, corneal, cornual, corrade, coruler, courlan, craaled, cradler, crunode, curdler, decanal, durance, lacunae, lacunar, ladrone, launder, lucarne, lurdane, nodular, nuclear, radulae. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 52 55 4E 4C 4F 41 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010010 00100000 01010101 01001110 01001100 01001111 01000001 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A R   U N L O A D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0052 0055 004E 004C 004F 0041 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37355225548464935383952 |
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