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Rocket Boots
Rocket boots is an invention by Soviet scientist Viktor Gordeyev. The invention is a pair of mechanical devices that a user would wear on his or her lower legs and feet. Rocket Boots are intended to make it possible for a person to travel faster and further than by unassisted walking or running. There are no actual rockets in the Rocket Boots. Rather, the power comes from pistons that are filled with a fuel-air mixture, and fired by compression when the user puts his or her full body weight down into the boot. When the piston fires, the platform under the user's foot pushes down on the ground, launching the user forward toward the next step in an action similar to that of pogo stick. The boots use approximately 4 cc fuel per 6.2 miles (9,97km). The boots were initially developed in the 1970s for the Soviet Army, but development was suspended until 2000. The project was restarted in Russian Federation by scientists at the Bashkir State University (Ufa Ufa ( ba, Өфө , Öfö ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogo Stick
A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position, through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies, often used as a toy, exercise equipment or extreme sports instrument. It led to an extreme sport named extreme pogo or "Xpogo". It consists of a pole with a handle at the top and footrests near the bottom, and a spring located somewhere along the pole. The spring joins two sections of the pole, which extends below the footpads. The jumper places their feet on the footpads while balancing on the pole, then jumps up or down with a bending action of the knees to add or subtract energy in the spring. When the spring is at full compression or extension, the jumper is lifted by the recoil of the spring, being launched several inches or feet into the air. This process is repeated to maintain a periodic bounce. The pogo stick can be steered by shifting one's weight off the centerline of the spring in the desired horizontal direction thus produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashkir State University
, ba, Башҡорт дәүләт университеты , other_name = BashSU , former_name = Ufa Teacher Institute (1909–1919) People's Education Institute (1919–1923) Practic Institute (1923–1929) Temiryazev Bashkir Pedagogical Institute (1929–1957) 40 years of Octouber Bashkir State University (1957–1991) Bashkir State University (since 1991) , image = Bashkir_University_logo.jpg , image_size = 300px , image_alt = , caption = Coat of arms of the Bashkir State University , latin_name = , motto = russian: Первый среди равных , motto_lang = , mottoeng = First among Equals. , established = , closed = , type = Public , parent = , affiliation = , endowment = , budget = , officer_in_charge = , chairman = , chancellor = , president = , vice-president = , superintendent = , provost = , vice_c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerbocking
Jumping stilts, bounce stilts or spring stilts are special stilts that allow the user to run, jump and perform various acrobatics. Spring stilts using fiberglass leaf springs were patented in the United States in 2004 under the trademark "PowerSkip", marketed for recreational and extreme sports use. Spring stilts are often mostly made of aluminium. Using these stilts is also called "bocking" or "powerbocking", a corrupted version of the name of the stilts' inventor, Alexander Böck. Powerbocking The act of "bocking" or "powerbocking" includes jumping, running, and performing acrobatics with elastic-like spring-loaded stilts. They can be used to jump great distances and allow the user to bounce over people and cars and to perform backflips. For some, it is an extreme sport; for others, it is a form of exercise, artistic expression and a form of entertainment. The stilts are often referred to generically as bocks or powerbocks; as power stilts, jumping stilts, bounce stilts or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven-league Boots
Seven-league boots are an element in European folklore. The boots allow the person wearing them to take strides of seven leagues per step, resulting in great speed. The boots are often presented by a magical character to the protagonist to aid in the completion of a significant task. Mention of the legendary boots are found in: * Germany – Sweetheart Roland, Adelbert von Chamisso's '' Peter Schlemiel'', Goethe's Faust (Mephistopheles uses them at the start of Part Two, Act Four ), Wilhelm Hauff's " Der Kleine Muck" * France – Charles Perrault's - '' Hop o' My Thumb'', Madame d'Aulnoy's ''The Bee and the Orange Tree'', Marcel Proust’s '' In Search of Lost Time''. * Norway – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe - '' Soria Moria Castle'' * Britain – Jack the Giant Killer, John Masefield's ''The Midnight Folk'', C.S. Lewis's '' The Pilgrim's Regress'', Wizardoligy, ''A Guide to Wizards of the World'', Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic, The Bartimaeus Tril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boots
A boot is a type of footwear. Boot or Boots may also refer to: Businesses * Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England * Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom * The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London Places * Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England * Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys * Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada * Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts) * Boot Rock, South Sandwich Islands * Boots Creek (Manitoba), Canada * "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape People with the name * Boot (surname), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots * Boots (nickname), a list of people with the nickname * Boots (musician), an American record producer * Boots Riley, American rapper, lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club * Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
