Word: metallism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LIGHTNING RODS Well before the famous kite experiment, Franklin had speculated that lightning was electricity. His revolutionary idea was to conduct that electricity safely into the ground to save buildings from fires. The simple metal rod connected to a wire made Franklin famous throughout Europe and the colonies...
...London published his proposal, yet it was the French who actually put it to the test. The experiment Franklin proposed, which he first revealed in a letter to his English agent in July 1750, called for installing on a high place, like a steeple, a sentry box with a metal pole extending from its roof. If an electrified storm cloud passed overhead, Franklin said, the pole--preferably sharpened at the end--would pull out a small amount of the cloud's "fire." Or to put it in modern terms, it would induce an electrical charge in the pole. An observer...
...clean virtual windows and score points for washing speed and thoroughness. (An unlikely premise, but then no one expected the Sims to be a hit either.) The whole package retails around €60. Eventually, Sony plans to merge the technology with other PS2 franchises, like Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid. In the meantime, that nasty karate master is coming straight at me: a kick to the groin should do the trick. A Foggy Idea It's guaranteed to leave car thieves mist-ified. SecuFog, the latest auto-security device from Germany, is a small metal cartridge filled with...
While security guards and Harvard University Police Department officers carried metal-detector wands to screen visitors, their scans were few and far between, and lines of people moved through gates into the Yard at a relatively quick pace...
...Vietnam comparisons may exist mostly in our heads - both the soldiers obsessed with imagery from "Full Metal Jacket" and "Apocalypse Now," and a media corps looking for simple analogies to describe complex problems. But what they do reveal is a growing anxiety over the long-term nature of the Iraq occupation. Nor is there much comfort in the observation by those coalition-of-the-willing Spanish, who are finally sending 1,100 troops to join the fray in Iraq, that the situation there is not at all like Vietnam. No, says the daily El-Mundo, it's more like...