Sentence examples for mufflers from inspiring English sources

The wearer of a more old-fashioned hand would need to do this slowly and by eye, and even then might fail.Mr Sorensen, by contrast, could do it blindfolded and wearing ear mufflers.

On the same day Honda suffered a strike in a factory that makes its mufflers and exhaust parts, less than a week after it settled an earlier dispute by offering a 24% pay rise.

He and Irvine also wore fur-lined motorcycle helmets and large woollen mufflers, all eminently practical.

He adapted the principle to mufflers, safety valves, air compressors and blowers, and other devices.

Mufflers of early design contained sets of baffles that reversed the flow of the gases or otherwise caused them to follow devious paths so that interference between the pressure waves reduced the pulsations.

The mufflers most commonly used in modern motor vehicles employ resonating chambers connected to the passages through which the gases flow.

They pushed for different rubber tires, quieter pavements, and car mufflers.

Interview with Gordon Sherman, founder & president of Midas, Inc., of Chicago, which during the last six years he has expanded into a chain of 400 retail shops, which install auto-exhaust equipment, including gold-plated mufflers.

The men wear mufflers, and harnesses across their shoulders to support heavy mitts.

"Let it be known," began his 1877 patent application, "that I, Chester Greenwood,... have invented certain new and certain useful Improvements for Ear-Mufflers".

The New Yorker, November 15 , 1993P. 92 Hober is a partner in Superior Mufflers on Sharpe Avenue.