What is "connecting rods"

Usage examples of "connecting rods".

Like an airborne mote within the eerily lit bowels of that colossal imaginary mechanism, he drifted past massive walls and interconnected columns of whirling drive shafts, rattling drive chains, myriad thrusting piston rods joined by sliding blocks to connecting rods that were in turn joined by crank wrists to well-greased cranks that turned flywheels of all dimensions.

Slowly, slowly the connecting rods begin to pick up speed, and the heat from the boiler builds, and more water spills across the heavy-timbered half-deck that holds the engine.

One driving axle is cranked directly, and the other driving axles are turned by the action of connecting rods, which run from one crank pin to another.

In the day ancient leaky radiators sent up columns of steam, loose connecting rods hammered and pounded.

Waves approached and receded as monotonously as connecting rods pumping back and forth in an engine.

Direct drive to the rear axles was simple but unreliable, as the necessary long connecting rods and cranked axles often broke, given the erratic forging techniques and rough suspensions of the day.

Through darkness he flees, all but blind, not without fear but purged of doubt, across sandstone but also sand, across loose shale, between masses of sage and weather-sculpted thrusts of rock, zigging and zagging, legs reaching for the land ahead, sneakered feet landing with assurance on terrain that had previously been treacherous, arms pump-pump-pumping like the connecting rods on the driving wheels of a locomotive, the dog often visible in front of him, but sometimes seen less than sensed, sometimes seen not at all, but always reappearing, the two of them bonding more intimately the farther they travel, spirit sewn to spirit with the strong thread of Curtis's reckless trust.

The connecting rods from the altar came down into this room and terminated at a small console.

The connecting rods from the altar came downthis room and terminated at a small console.

With their supporting frames, connecting rods, crankshafts, gimbels, and ancillary equipment, they take up most of the vessel's interior below this deck.

Each piston moves independently of the others, transferring the power generated by its vertical motion of two connecting rods, thence to a crankshaft.

Tiffany scrunches down farther in her seat and watches the wires twitch and flutter outside the rear window as the operator raises the connecting rods, makes contact, settles them onto the wires.

There was a loud sighing sound of compressed air escaping, and a moment later, the tall connecting rods came to a stop.

They idled in neutral, making soft sucking noises because there was excess grease on the connecting rods, from the rotary bearings, which had been packed at the Earth shipyard to protect against corrosion.

When I see a racehorse I see a machine, and that's what I paint, a horse-shaped machine with pistons thumping away and muscle fibres like connecting rods and a crack in the crank case with the oil dripping away drop by drop into the body cavity.