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BRAKES. Standard brakes work much like the ones Italy's Tullio Campagnolo designed 40 years ago. To slow a bike, the rider squeezes handgrips, which are attached to cables that pull on caliper arms. The arms, in turn, clamp down on the wheel rims with rubber pads. The system is...
Borrowing the concept from automobiles, the Mathauser Hydraulic Bellowphragm replaces regular brake cables with sealed, flexible tubes that contain hydraulic fluid. When the rider lightly squeezes the handles, a plunger pushes a silicone fluid through the tubes, causing the traditional caliper arms to close. "I designed these mostly for women...
Battery-powered autos are clean, quiet and remarkably energy efficient -- but they have a huge problem. Once they get on the road, even the most advanced models can travel only 190 km (120 miles) or so before they run out of wattage, and then they need to be plugged into...
As Brazauskas explained, with only one out of four natural-gas pipelines still in operation, the republic could meet just 16% of its daily needs. That would be enough to keep bakeries, meat-processing plants and other essential factories running but would bring most industries "to their knees." Meanwhile, oil...
It is easy to understand why even Hawking was awed: he was looking at just a portion of the largest scientific instrument ever built. Known as the large electron-positron collider, this new particle accelerator is the centerpiece of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of Europe...