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- On top of that, the "California" Corvette sucked its pitiful rivulet of horsepower through the straw of a torque-sapping three-speed automatic transmission.
- The system works well, but it does leave the legs exceedingly vulnerable to injury because when a break occurs, the blood vessels embedded in the limbs can torque and tear.
- Pointed out that successive making and breaking of electrical contact in a torque motor circuit was not a necessary condition for development of cyclic motion of the platform.