Some of the sails were again hoisted, and the
speed of the boat was very good.
To have touched the side at the speed we were making would doubtless have resulted in instant death for us all.
We were not long in the shaft, and possibly the very fact of our enormous speed saved us, for evidently we started in the right direction and so quickly were we out again that we had no time to alter our course.
We plunged through the cold camp fog without diminishing our speed, and in a moment emerged into the glorious light of the two moons and the million stars.
Long did the three friends look without speaking, though united in heart, while the projectile sped onward with an ever-decreasing
speed.
Quickly completing the repairs we rose together into the still, cloudless Martian sky, and at great
speed and without further mishap returned to Zodanga.
The results show that under the high and low test
speeds, the measured stress changes in different directions.
Brent suspected that a stronger electric current running through a motor could help power an electric dragster to higher
speeds.
Verbatim Corporation, a core member of the DVD+RW Alliance, has announced plans to release 1-16X
speed DVD+R media.
With DC drives,
speed and torque aren't linear, and at
speeds below 10% there's no torque at all.
The council approved increasing the
speed limits on 57 street segments in December 2001 to meet the requirements of the California Vehicle Code for
speed zoning and to ensure the city's legal position with regard to the enforcement of
speeds on those street segments.
The first was a four-
speed that used actual force to hold the clutches on the planetary gearbox open, and centrifugal force to close them at different torque and
speed combinations.
