Sentences with phrase «x-ray-generating vacuum tube»

HTT, which lays claim to the brand name «hyperloop» — a futuristic transport system that essentially involves sucking people through a vacuum tube at high speed — says it is «building the first commercial line in Abu Dhabi.»

The tips of the vacuum tubes in the ENIAC accumulators, which were arranged in 10 - by - 10 grids, poked through holes in the machine's front panel.

She and Snyder devised a system to figure out which of the 18,000 vacuum tubes had burned out.

They invented the vacuum tube and the laser, optical fibres and cellular technology.

While testing a new vacuum tube that drives a radar set known as a magnetron, he discovered that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket melted.

From their Battery of the Month Club, to their vacuum tube testers (remember those?)

It would use vacuum tubes to suck pods containing passengers at speeds of up to 600 mph.

Propelled by compressed air and induction motors inside a vacuum tube, Elon Musk's Hyperloop passenger - train concept is designed to travel at 760 mph — much faster than Japan's new maglev bullet train (374 mph).

SpaceX's second Hyperloop Pod Competition ended last weekend and WARR team won with a top speed of 201 mph (324 km / h) achieved in 0.8 mile in SpaceX's 1 - mile long near vacuum tube.

Elon Musk announced on Thursday, Jan. 15, that he will build a test track that will help speed up the arrival of his vision of future transportation, a high - speed pod propped up on air cushions traveling at speeds of 800 miles per hour inside a vacuum tube.

Musk first proposed the Hyperloop, a vacuum tube intended to speedily shoot passengers at 800 mph from city to city, in 2013.

Of course, the biggest question will be how to win over city and county governments to allow further construction of such a structure and which startup will prevail in the bid to build our human vacuum tube of the future.

the vacuum tubes did glow with the light of the Lord.»

People did not grow up in a vacuum tube of nothingness.

Beginning in 1941, the Germans also used Lorenz, a much more sophisticated cipher than Enigma, and to crack it required the first fully electronic computers, the famous Colossus machines, each of which employed several thousand vacuum tubes.

You get two excellent HEPA filters, a 14 - foot cable, a soft long vacuum tube, several useful cleaning attachments, and even a carrying bag for ease of storage.

The hams — a term coined as a slur by professional telegraph operators — «were sending homework and football scores and news in Morse code, and then they went to World War I and found out about vacuum tubes.»

As a boy in Wyoming, Wilson fiddled with vacuum tubes and pumps, and thrilled at the notion that one might likewise mix parts of the atom to «make the whole universe.»

In 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen of Würzburg, Germany, while experimenting with high voltage currents passed through vacuum tubes, discovered a new form of radiation that caused materials to fluoresce.

Thanks to the amplifying power of the newly invented vacuum tubes, hams started sending audio everywhere.

Roughly 50 kilometers east of Baton Rouge, La., lasers ricochet off mirrors that dangle at the ends of a 4 - kilometer - long, L - shaped vacuum tube.

From a quaint foundation built on vacuum tubes and X-rays to 2011's catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima, Nelson deftly weaves together science and history as he spans the Atomic Age.

l Vacuum tubes: The US army's Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), which contained more than 17,000 tubes, became the first fully electronic general - purpose computer in 1946.

The smartphone would have been an even more impossible invention had Jeff Hecht tried making one using vacuum tubes (15...

Inside each arm a laser beam bounces back and forth between mirrors at each end of a vacuum tube, resonating like sound in an organ pipe.

The two devices were roughly similar in design — both sucked hair into a vacuum tube, snipped it with internal blades at a precise and controllable length, then sucked away the clippings — but they were fully indistinguishable in purpose: to put into the hands of the common man a power hitherto known only to trained professionals, that of cutting human hair.

Computer engineers have dreamed of a machine that would translate speech into something that a vacuum tube or transistor could understand.

The researchers believe that the electric field in the vacuum tube somehow altered the energy state of the vacuum inside the cathode - ray tube in the nearby computer monitor.

Their main research consists of building better vacuum tubes to replace microchips.

One of the vacuum tubes in Virgo's 3 - kilometer arms where lasers keep watch for gravitational waves.

He says resisting the rise of solar energy is akin to if computer manufacturers kept using vacuum tube switches instead of upgrading to semiconductor transistors.

«It replaces a technology much like vacuum tubes that has been used for decades to precisely detect small amounts of light.

As Chamberlain's address blared from the hotel's massive radio, 6 - year - old Rainer stared in fascination at the glowing array of vacuum tubes inside the cabinet.

THE MRI machine hisses and spurts in a huge room strewn with concrete blocks and vacuum tubes.

They are now waiting for a new generation of giant interferometers that measure the time it takes a laser beam to travel through vacuum tubes several kilometres long.

This problem is usually avoided by putting solar scopes in a vacuum tube where there's no air for temperature fluctuations.

A vacuum tube holds a blood - fed strain of Aedes aegypti — the mosquito that carries the Zika virus — in place under a microscope in a research lab insectary in the Hanson Biomedical Sciences Building at UW — Madison.

Blood samples were collected into vacuum tubes without anticoagulant, left for 1 h at room temperature, and then centrifuged for 15 min at 1500 × g at 20 °C.

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The hapless killer - to - be is crowned with a wire cap and stuck into a vacuum tube somewhere in the nether regions.

I think it's more satisfying to get to the vacuum tube than just to beat your opponent (s).

A haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt - out pillow factory, a dead body pixelating under the bridge, toilets that run on vacuum tubes... you've never visited a place like this before.

Although some audiophiles argue that vinyl sounds better than silicon, and vacuum tubes have better bass response than transistors, those claims, even if true, are unlikely to turn back the clock.

They had not been able to sell vacuum tube - based products because they couldn't service them in the aftermarket.

Appliance stores made most of their money not from selling televisions and radios, but from repairing the burned out vacuum tubes in the products they had sold.

The new invention was not as good as vacuum tubes, the established technology at the time.

Because Sony's solid - state products contained no vacuum tubes that would burn out.

I replaced the MAP sensor and the vacuum tube myself;

But it started to stall and bog down again, I went to AutoZone and purchased a new MAP sensor and made a vacuum tube for it; I haven't noticed any bad starts or stalling since I've changed it, but it is still having small amounts of surging below around 2k RPM, and still sort of hiccuping when I pull the throttle.

What else could be causing this sort of issue that I could investigate before I have to try and replace all the vacuum tubing?