Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engineers foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a thin film of air, thus avoiding painful contact with the bed sheets and allowing healing on all sides...
Experimental mining has begun at Bu-Craa, and a small village has been built by Spain for the first 500 workers. Desert roads have been cut and bids are being taken for a $30 million conveyor belt to carry ore to the sea. If all goes well, within a decade the lonely oasis could become the source of enough fertilizer to help feed 68 million people a year. Thus the whole world has a stake in the project's success...
...assembly-line conveyor belt, moving parts momentarily interrupt strategically placed jets of air shooting across the belt. The interrupted air jets, connected to the control jets of a fluidic circuit, cause power streams to flow and stop, opening and closing valves. The valves in turn activate automated pneumatic machines that process the passing parts...
...constructive, and indeed is patently false in many respects. Aitken and Beloff find it typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also disabuse some readers of the notion that all Oxford students are bright...
...Columbia dams thus nicely paying for themselves, Bennett plunged ahead on the northern Peace. The Peace dam is a great earthen slab that will rise higher than the Grand Coulee, 2,700 ft. wide at the base and stretching 1.3 miles across the valley. Engineers devised a mammoth conveyor belt that, moving at 121 m.p.h., delivers 12,000 tons of fill an hour from a moraine four miles away. When the dam is topped off, it will back up a lake stretching for 240 miles...