Explore: Leading Screw

A propeller (often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at

leading to this type of mechanism being less suitable for smaller compressors than piston compressors. The screw compressor is identical to the screw

A leadscrew (or lead screw), also known as a power screw or translation screw, is a screw used as a linkage in a machine, to translate turning motion into

parking brake in which the piston in the caliper is actuated by a cam or screw. This compresses the pads against the rotor. However, this type of system

A screw-propelled vehicle is a land or amphibious vehicle designed to traverse difficult terrain, such as snow, ice, mud, and swamp. Such vehicles are

Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or simply screwworm or screw-worm, is a species of parasitic blowfly whose larvae (maggots) eat the living

mostly consist of glass. A traditional jar opener for a screw-off lid will have two handles, leading up to two concentric grooved rings which can be used

An ice screw is a threaded tubular screw used as a running belay or anchor by climbers on steep ice surface such as steep waterfall ice or alpine ice

The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54, is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898

trying to fix the elevator with some help from Mr. Belding, but they keep screwing it up until Bob, the elevator repairman, comes to fix it (and does), but