Sentences with phrase «by pyrotechnic»

When the car senses an impact with a pedestrian, pistons fired by a pyrotechnic device instantly raise the back of the hood by about four inches to «catch» the pedestrian and help prevent serious injury.

Activation by a pyrotechnic device, in the event of an impact, occurs in milliseconds and its effect is to help cushion the pedestrian's body.

Never idle yet governed more by logic than by the pyrotechnic impulse, this is the rare mix that manages to be constantly active without becoming hyperactive.

Not exact matches

Currently, red fireworks get their hue primarily from strontium monochloride, which is produced by burning strontium compounds with polyvinyl chloride and a variety of other pyrotechnic ingredients.

The flashiest of these is the «Donk's pyrotechnic system, fueled by a 2.5 - gallon propane tank.

We think we can improve our performance by changing the recipe of the pyrotechnic portion and thereby better liberate the terephthalic acid from the framework.»

Directed by Peter Berg, The Kingdom is a combination flick, part psychological thriller, part pyrotechnic spectacular, which works somehow despite considerable conceptual flaws.

In this instance, it was interrupted abruptly by a loud concussive bang — a pyrotechnic in the seat belt — and a terrible cinching around my abdomen.

Hosted by Atlantis, The Palm, the event will welcome internationally acclaimed pyrotechnic firms to the emirate for a spectacular show.

The exhibition is complemented by two concurrent exhibitions within the Institute, Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor (21 November 2013 — 16 February 2014) and Jean Tinguely: «Spiral» (1965)(25 September 2013 — 5 January 2014).

Previously she worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organized public programs and projects including Between the Door and the Street, a performance initiated by Suzanne Lacy and A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a pyrotechnic work presented in Prospect Park by Judy Chicago, among others.

Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor celebrates the acquisition of Cripps» archive by the Henry Moore Institute Archive.

Also displayed will be his Anthropometry paintings created by the artist choreographing nude models as living paintbrushes to transfer blue pigment onto canvas and his pyrotechnic Fire Paintings, created using a flame thrower.

November 2013 «Purging by Fire: Alberto Burri, Arte Povera, and Postwar Italian Art,» Pyrotechnic Sculpture Symposium, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Often referred to as a pyrotechnic artist, one of Signer's performative paradoxes is captured in this photograph, Aktion in Sedrun (Action in Sedrun), and features his sculptural pieces mid-air after being shot skyward by a series of gridded charges.