Sentences with phrase «mechanical apparatus»

Working between his New York and London studios, Bowling developed a special mechanical apparatus which tilted the canvas so that he could pour paint onto it, creating spontaneous fusions and layers of colour now known as the Poured Paintings.

[It was] designed to be a paint replacement, like a sheet of color a mechanical apparatus could cut out and affix to the wall with adhesive.

Suffusing the documentary is an almost religious reverence for this mundane and obsolete mechanical apparatus.

To prove that this simulation works, Zheng and his collaborators in China used off - the - shelf hardware to build a calibrated system in which a mechanical apparatus precisely controls the object immersion, and a 3D - system measures the object orientation and its dipping location.

The researchers first trained five bonobos and five orangutans to use a tool to get a fruit treat from a mechanical apparatus.

Finally, some nave apes were presented with tools but not the mechanical apparatus.

b The mechanical apparatus.

Oral appliances and nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) devices are mechanical apparatuses that act to prevent the tongue and soft palate from collapsing back into the upper airway.

This dark and dirty labyrinth of special effects and massive mechanical apparatuses lends a heavy feel to a disappointing script.

Not exact matches

Aliens may be the most immediate pop - culture example of mechanical limbs in action, but the best description of the apparatus» impact on lethality actually comes from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, in my opinion.

This is what I shall seek to demonstrate in the three spheres of culture, machinery and research, by successively «dissecting» first the hereditary, then the mechanical and finally the cerebral apparatus of the Noosphere.

It has one foot in the technical apparatus of photography: recording of light in this mechanical, chemical process, and then it has its other foot in so many other places.

Few people know that Thomas Edison spent the last ten years of his life attempting to build an apparatus to communicate with the dead, in his words, a mechanical medium.

Wind energy conversion system (WECS) or device: An apparatus for converting the energy available in the wind to mechanical energy that can be used to power machinery (grain mills, water pumps) and to operate an electrical generator.

(a) malfunction of mechanical equipment and recreational apparatus under the control of or maintained by the operator, including vehicles, other than that resulting from misuse by a user; (b) unsafe operation of mechanical equipment or recreational apparatus, including vehicles, by the operator or its employees; (c) unsafe aspects of the structure and condition of an indoor recreational facility that directly affect the safety of users when actually engaged in a recreational activity for which the recreational facility is designed or intended; (d) failure by the operator of an outdoor recreational facility to maintain commonly accepted conditions or standards of demarcation, signage, lighting, and monitoring of user activity, for outdoor recreational facilities of comparable size and type; (e) unfitness for normal use, at the time of supply or rental, of equipment or apparatus supplied or rented for use in connection with a recreational activity; (f) conduct of the operator's employees, acting in the course of their employment, that results in personal injury to or death of a user from the sources of risk referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e); (g) breach by the operator, or by an employee of the operator, of a specific statutory duty or regulatory requirement relating to safety in a particular recreational activity.

Under this plan, the Company will indemnify the insured against unanticipated and unexpected physical damage caused solely due to mechanical and / or electrical breakdown of domestic electrical and mechanical appliances, apparatus or gadgets.

Inspected Electrical and Mechanical parts for medical devices using digital multi-meter and other testing apparatus developed by engineering to test various electrical properties