Word: coils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included in this figure is the batch of 41,850 Econoline vans called back by Ford last week. A worker at the company's Lorain, Ohio, plant hit upon a production shortcut by shoving brake hoses through a spring coil. It saved time and money while it lasted, but the resulting malfunction of the Econoline's front brake may now cost Ford $100,000 to repair...
...supplies the chromium atoms (one for every 5,000 aluminum atoms) that cause the laser action. Excited Atoms. Both ends of the crystal rod are highly polished and silvered to act as mirrors, one highly reflective, the other partially transparent. Wrapped around the rod in the form of a coil is a flash tube similar to the strobe lights used by photographers...
...come in a variety of shapes and sizes as well as prices, all of them work on the same basic principle of dialysis, or "separating through." The patient's blood, loaded with body wastes that his own diseased kidneys cannot remove, is piped from an artery into a coil or container made of permeable cellulose. This is immersed in a swirling bath, containing bloodlike salts and acids, known as dialysate. The blood's impurities (but not the blood cells or vital proteins) pass into the bath through minute porosities in the cellulose, and then go down the drain. Some models...
Seeking a cheaper kidney machine, the inventive Kolff has used standard washing machines to slosh the outer bath, sausage casing for the blood coil, and 46-oz. fruit-juice cans as disposable blood-coil holders. Now he has devised a way to run the machines without a blood pump. Kolff's machines are in the $400 to $700 price range. Another excellent model, now being used at home by about 150 patients, was developed by the University of Maryland's Dr. William G. Esmond. It costs about $600, a far cry from the $7,000 price tag for some standard...
...York Philharmonic, has many qualities that have made Harris, at 70, an important American composer: logical structure, transparent textures and a broad melodic sense. Yet in the performance of the somewhat underrehearsed Philharmonic-under Harris' unpracticed baton-the mainspring that should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully effective. In the second section, an elegiac fugue turned slowly on itself, then began to meander...