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Any adjustment to his targeting would have to be made with the hand cranks.

The frames can be motorized, but the couple chose hand cranks instead.

The sight setter has three dials, and two hand cranks.

Two additional legs folded out to the sides, and the platform was then leveled with hand cranks.

Hand cranks provide greater portability at the cost of greater exertion.

The gates were opened using hand cranks and backup generators to allow the flood waters to drain.

Hand cranks were available for backup.

This display, animated by minute hand cranks, was inspired by 17th-century cabinets of curiosities.

Human-powered trikes are powered by pedals or hand cranks.

The action that forces this movement varies greatly, ranging from hand cranks and steam engines to nuclear fission, but the principle remains the same.

Set-up could be accomplished by dropping the gun to the ground off its two-wheeled carriage and leveling with hand cranks.

These usually follow a delta design with front wheels driven by standard derailleur gearing powered by hand cranks.

His "Wooden Horse on Wheels" was a tricycle propelled by hand cranks.

Cellular phones are something of a rage in Hungary, bypassing the traditional network, which is so antiquated that many telephones still have hand cranks.

Since he was a watch-maker, he was able to create a vehicle that was powered by hand cranks.

Perry's started from hand cranks and horse-drawn delivery wagons and grew into a modern, state-of-the-art ice cream production facility.

With all its hand cranks and adjustments, the thing was as dated as-as as a C-47, Lovett concluded.

"Hand Crank Transmitter"

The bow ramp was initially raised and lowered by hand cranks, but in later versions a powered winch was installed.

Early versions of the Daleks were rolled around on castors or moved by wheels connected to hand cranks by bicycle chains.

When women said they preferred the gasoline-powered cars, she said, manufacturers replaced hand cranks with electric starters and enclosed the cars.

No electrical cords for him; rather his cunning pieces depend on hand cranks, or Rube Goldberg-type mechanisms.

Visitors can expend their own "boundless energy" at a play area for kids in which stationary bikes, hand cranks, and a seesaw powers a whimsical water sculpture.

Internal combustion engines of early 20th century automobiles were usually started with hand cranks (known as starting handles in the UK), before electric starters came into general use.

The teacher, who had invented a self-starter mechanism to replace automobile hand cranks, received a new car each year as partial payment from the company which had bought the mechanism.