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Encyclopedia > Bumper

A bumper is a part of a car designed to allow one vehicle to push another and to withstand the impact from collisions. Bumpers were originally made of heavy steel but in later years have been constructed of rubber, plastic, or painted light metal leaving them susceptible to damage from even minimal contact. For the most part, these vehicles cannot push, or be pushed by, another vehicle. A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... (1) IMPACT (International Multi-user Plasma, Atmospheric and Cosmic dust Twin laboratory) is a successful merger of many different science communities that need similar instrumentation and resources. ...


The fun of bumping one car into another led to the creation of bumper cars at amusement parks. These small cars are designed to fit one or at most two people and crashed into each other consistently. Bumper car at a small town fair Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars that draw their power from an overhead grid, which is turned off by the operator at the end of a session. ...


Brush guards, push bars, etc. have been added to bumpers of automobiles, pickups, trucks, and utility vehicles since at least the 1920s to provide additional protection to the vehicle.


Bumper is also the name of a sounding rocket used between 1949 an 1952 consisting of a V2 as launch stage and a WAC-Rocket as second stage. WAC is the designation of the first in USA developed sounding rocket. ...


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Bumper 5, fired on February 24, 1949, was the first Bumper to be fired with a fully tanked second stage which allowed 45 seconds burning time.
Bumper missiles 7 and 8 were shipped from White Sands Proving Ground to Florida by standard Army tractor and flatbed for firing at the Joint Long-Range Proving Ground.
Trajectory data showed the separation angle for Bumper 7 to be approximately 10 degrees and that for Bumper 8 to be about 13 degrees.
Bumper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (250 words)
A bumper is a part of a car designed to allow one vehicle to push another and to withstand the impact from collisions.
And while bumpers were originally made of heavy steel in later years they have been constructed of rubber, plastic, or painted light metal leaving them susceptible to damage from even minimal contact.
The height and placement of bumpers may be legally specified as well, to ensure that when vehicles of different heights are in an accident, that the smaller vehicle will not slide under the larger vehicle, particularly in collisions with semi-trailers.
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