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...Thilo Pfau, a professor of bioengineering, and his team first outfitted both jockeys and horses with inertial sensors. The humans wore the instruments in their kidney belts; the animals wore them at the front of the saddle. "The sensors are accelerometers similar to what's in the Wii," says physicist Andrew Spence, who participated in the work. "Once you synchronize the two, you can determine the relative motion of the man and the horse." The jockeys also wore global-positioning trackers so their speed and position could be followed. "The tracker was in the helmet, where the GPS satellites could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of Jockeying: Why Horses Go Fast | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...Lewis Pfau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1982 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

Edward Lewis Pfau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Edward Lewis Pfau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1982 | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Edward Lewis Pfau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 8, 1982 | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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