The government is supposed to pay for a motor-driven chair only if the patient would be confined to bed without one.

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S. Thurman patents a motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

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In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.

ECONOMIST: A die-hard analog photographer goes digital

Fashion has become the motor of our consumer-driven society.

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It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.

ECONOMIST: Fuel economy

Like C-MAX Hybrid, C-MAX Energi has projected total system horsepower of 188 that stems from the combination of a gasoline engine and a battery-driven electric motor.

ENGADGET: Ford's 2013 C-Max Energi rolls out 95 MPGe, arrives later this fall

Herndon, VA - Volkswagen announced today that a 2013 Jetta Hybrid driven by Motor Trend Associate Road Test Editor Carlos Lago recorded a speed of 185.394 mph (298.363 kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, near Wendover, Nevada, during the Southern California Timing Association's (SCTA) annual Speed Week.

ENGADGET: Volkswagen 2013 Jetta Hybrid sets speed record, gives new meaning to hypermiling