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Kawasaki motorcycles are manufactured by the Motorcycle & Engine division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries at plants in Japan, USA, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.

Jet Ski is technically the brand name of a personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki, however it is commonly used in English to refer to a small water craft of this style of any type, and it is also used as verb to describe the use of this type of water vehicle.

Jet skis typically can carry 1-2 people seated in a configuration more like a typical bike or motorcycle.

An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a quad, quad bike, three-wheeler, four-wheeler, or quadricycle as defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a vehicle that travels on low-pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control.

As the name implies, it is designed to handle a wider variety of terrain than most other vehicles.

Although it is a street-legal vehicle in some countries, it is not street-legal within most states and provinces of Australia, the United States or Canada.

A personal water craft (PWC), also called water scooter, and comically a boatercycle, is a recreational watercraft that the rider sits or stands on, rather than inside of, as in a boat.

PWCs have two style categories.

The first and most popular being a "sit down"or "couch", where the rider uses the watercraft mainly sitting down and typically holds two or more people.

The second style is a "stand up", where the rider uses the watercraft standing up.

The stand up styles are built for one rider and is used more for doing tricks, racing, and are used in competitions.

Both styles have an inboard engine driving a pump jet that has a screw-shaped impeller to create thrust for propulsion and steering.

They are often referred by the trademarked brand names Jet Ski, WaveRunner, or Sea-Doo.

Most are designed for two or three people, though four-passenger models exist.

The United States Coast Guard defines a personal watercraft, amongst other criteria, as a jet drive boat less than 13 feet (4 m) in length, in order to exclude from that definition more conventional sized jet boats.

There is a wide variety of "jet boats" many of which exceed 30–40 feet (9–12 m) in length.

The Strowger switch was the first commercially successful electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system.

It was invented by Almon Brown Strowger, and first patented in 1891.

Because of its operational characteristics it is also known as a step-by-step (SXS) switch.