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Mobility and Safety. Why should a rock star want to turn himself into a walking wireless transmitter? Great mobility onstage, for one thing. Free from the long electric umbilical cord that connected him to the mother amplifier, he can twirl, somersault, even leap into the audience, without strangling himself. Nor...
Dead Serious. Now engineers have devised a solution that sounds like the punch line of some sort of Italian joke: rubber dams. But the sponsors of the plan-Pirelli, the famous tire company, and Furlanis, a construction firm-are dead serious about it. They propose installing hollow, expandable dams made...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built...
The idea is based on the signal-relay balloons that were used to reach isolated U.S. outposts in the jungles of Viet Nam. Like the military's message bearers, TCOM's balloon, or aerostat (from the Greek words for "air" and "one that stops"), as its developers call...
Their opposite numbers, the degreasers, have a more tenacious problem, accord ing to the Archives of Environmental Health. Degreasers are the men who remove the grease used as a protective coating on machinery and steel cables.