Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apple Computer chairman John Sculley likes to compare the center to Florence during the Renaissance. In truth, the artistry, so far, is rather long on surrealistic special effects and short on subtlety, as explorers of the medium check out every tool in their new bag of tricks. "We're at the early stages of what may be a paradigm shift, and a lot of this stuff will look clunky," says Charles Altschul, a Yale design professor who serves as the center's director of education. "But you can feel the artists' creativity beginning to poke through...
...paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery's senior conservator, designed an ingenious lightweight metal container on wheels that one person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with devices for removing the paintings from the walls swiftly, as well as flashlights and a waterproof signboard showing the location of each picture. When the lid was closed, the container would be sealed with gaskets. Bags of chemicals inside would stabilize the humidity, which was to be constantly monitored...
...computer-driven motor that spins at 6,000 r.p.m. can shoot a ball at up to 60 m.p.h. "The robot eliminates the need to travel to China and Japan to practice against the best players in the world," says Olympic hopeful Sean O'Neill. "This is a training tool that allows you to practice against them every...
...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- a disorder that would inevitably render him paralyzed and incapable of performing most kinds of work. As the authors note, theoretical physics was "one of the very few jobs for which his mind was the only real tool he needed...
...used that tool with consummate skill. While still a graduate student, Hawking became fascinated by black holes, the bizarre objects created during the death throes of large stars. Working with mathematician Roger Penrose and using Einstein's relativity equations, he developed new techniques proving mathematically that at the heart of black holes were singularities -- infinitely dense, dimensionless points with irresistible gravity. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that "there is a singularity in our past...