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Moscow's Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Apparatus and Instruments went to work in the 1950s and devised 20-odd mechanical staplers to suture internal tissues together with stainless steel wires. But few surgeons were ready to drop their deft fingerwork and give the experimental devices a try. Now, almost a decade later, American improvements on Russian designs are beginning to bring automatic suturing into the operating room...
...loaded one by one with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour...
...after six months of hassling over tax terms, Mayor John Lindsay and the Port of New York Authority came to terms, gave the green light to the construction of the $525 million World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Main feature of the Minoru Yamasaki-designed 16-acre complex: twin stainless-steel towers, each 110 stories tall, or 100 ft. taller than the Empire State Building, which since 1931 has retained the proud title "Tallest Building in the World...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...
Moon Walker's agility derives from its stainless-steel tubular legs, which have hinged, almost human knees, and flat, hooflike feet with rippled soles to give them traction. The legs operate in pairs, one leg of each pair supporting the walker's weight while the other leg is in motion. They are moved by battery-operated electric motors and controlled by a four-way lever that is so sensitive a multiple-amputee child can operate it with his chin...