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...those who are still fearful of losing their piece in an awkward moment, there is a more extreme solution. For between $650 and $1,350, "Hair-Anew" surgically attaches the piece to the scalp with half a dozen individual loops or sutures of Teflon-coated wire. "Medi-Hair" weaves the sutures in and out in a basting pattern; its $1,000 job is supposedly permanent. In one ad, a "Medi-Hair" wearer is shown hanging upside down with a 12-lb. weight attached...
...ball must rotate in a socket, which in most such hip operations had been made of steel. Charnley disliked the steel-to-steel joint because it must be lubricated solely by body fluids, which are often inadequate. A plastic socket would require no lubrication. But what plastic? He tried Teflon, only to have it break loose and damage nearby bone. "One day," he says, "a salesman turned up with a sample of high-density polyethylene. I sent him away, telling him that we knew that polyethylene was useless. I hadn't heard of high-density polyethylene, but luckily...
...equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides) and even a nylon whisk broom to brush off the clinging lunar dust...
Thirty years have passed since chemists at E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. revolutionized the textile industry by introducing a man-made fiber named nylon. Since then, Du Pont has continued to mount an impressive list of synthetic firsts in textile fibers, including Orlon, Dacron and Teflon. Last week at a press preview in Manhattan's First National City Bank Building, the chemical Goliath unveiled its latest unnatural discovery: Qiana. (Pronounced...
...American. Bundles of wire, previously exposed to dangerous scuffing and wear during assembly, maintenance, tests and flight, are now encased in protective metal panels that double as fire walls. In addition, such flammables as nylon nets and plastic containers have been replaced by nonflammable or fire-resistant materials like Teflon...