Word: caging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gabo's sculptures are frequently made from translucent plastic, phosphor bronze or glass; the shape is usually a swooping arc, strung with taut wire or string, like a harp, that forms a delicate open-sided cage for space. Their construction has been likened to architecture, their humming strings to music, their balance to mathematics...
...reap his whirlwind, Chang started a smoke generator installed beneath a screened cylindrical cage 9 ft. high and 6 ft. in diameter. After the smoke was drawn toward the top of the cage by a powerful exhaust fan, the cage itself began to revolve. As the screen approached six revolutions per minute, it imparted a rotary motion to the air being drawn through it by the fan. The rising smoke gradually turned into a column that rotated at 1,200 r.p.m., whistling around in the cage at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. Pieces of confetti on the floor...
...funnel, surrounding the low-pressure "eye," is considerably greater than at the top. It is this extremely low pressure in the eye and the high-velocity winds in the funnel that make the tornado so deadly. To better determine the forces at work, Chang intends to build a larger cage that will produce winds of more than 100 m.p.h. -a velocity that he believes is high enough to simulate natural tornadoes more realistically...
...gerbils need to be happy is an 8-in. by 21 -in. cage carpeted with shavings and provided with a few means of entertainment. They are also indefatigably curious, run to explore any new object that is presented them. Loving and monogamous, they are happiest when paired. Their gestation period is 24 days, and under ideal conditions they will produce an average litter of four once a month during their four-year life span...
Captain Quentin Spector and President Lloyd Macdonald have been driving the team through hard night practices in Carey Cage in preparation for the season which starts April 3 in Richmond, Va. An unprecedented 50 members from all over the University have come out for the spring team...