Word: diagraming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth's curved surface. This angle is the self-contained milepost by which Inertial Guidance determines and sets its course (see diagram...
...free piston engine is a hybrid: a simplified piston engine that develops no direct mechanical power, but delivers high pressure exhaust gas that can be made to run a turbine, just like steam from a boiler (see diagram...
Plastic Lung. To the surgeon the heart is the center of a familiar but complex machine (see diagram). Used blood, from which all the body's tissues have removed nourishing oxygen, returns through the two great veins (superior and inferior vena cava) to the right upper chamber (auricle). It empties from there through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. This muscular chamber contracts and pushes the blood through the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs to pick up fresh oxygen. Reddened blood returns to the left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle...
...helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers. It is now-with minor local modifications-the type most widely used in the U.S. (see diagram), though some surgeons still refuse to bubble blood...
...marrow cavity and fitted a flange (just below the ball) to the head of the femur. Another flange, on the socket, he screwed to the rim of the acetabulum (the socket cavity in the pelvic bone). A collar to hold the ball in the socket completed the device (see diagram). Patient Snyder will be walking in three weeks...