Traction

(noun.) (orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; 'his leg was in traction for several days'.

录入:玛丽

• A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This, in its latest form known as the gearless traction elevator, does away with all intricate machinery, and yields a machine moving with equal speed whatever the height. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This mode of traction was afterwards extended, in many instances, along the whole railway, so as to supersede the use of horse power. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This is a fitting stage at which to review briefly what had been done in electric traction up to that date. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In his traction work he had a close second in Robert Davidson, of Aberdeen, Scotland, who in 1839 operated both a lathe and a small locomotive with the motor he had invented. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It has been replaced by the electric traction elevator. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A little animal muscle, supplied by draft oxen, horse traction, and the like, contributed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When these fine roads become the possession of a country light traction engines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

整理:佩吉