Word: pumps
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...three-drawer filing cabinet. There's a curious Willy Wonka look to it. Feed a bit of metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...
...people who have always wanted to ride their mountain bikes on water. On the theory that no demand shall go unsupplied, Italian company SBK offers the Shuttle-Bike Kit. Ride to the edge of a lake or stream; within 10 minutes, inflate two pontoons with a specially designed air pump and attach the gear with a series of hooks. While you're at it, try to think of something even more ridiculous for the SBK folks to invent...
...size of a hang-glider-size plane and triple its wingspan to 90 ft. while keeping its weight the same," MacCready explains, "the power needed to fly it goes down by a factor of 3, to about 0.4 horsepower." And that, he knew, was what a trained cyclist could pump out for several minutes at a stretch...
...young nuclear scientist spent his days developing advanced space systems for the Strategic Air Command. At night, while his wife and kids slept upstairs, he used mathematic and scientific formulas to launch his own dreams from the basement. He had built a model of a heat pump that used water instead of unfriendly Freon. Attaching a homemade nozzle to the end of tubing and connecting it to his bathroom sink, he carefully turned on the water. It shot out a stream so powerful that its air currents ruffled the curtains. "Eureka!" Johnson told himself. "This would make a great water...
...contention over these pieces to their inconspicuous placement; they did not require public deliberation. The community group is not picking on the artwork itself, but on the infringement of public space-the association is likewise upset about the university's building of a campus center and acquisition of a pump house. Gould emphasizes the artistic strength of the Columbia neighborhood, calling it a "hip community" replete with artists and art-appreciation projects of its own. "I would 100 percent support a piece of artwork, whether I liked it or not, if it was preceded by a community process," states Essaibi...