Sentences with phrase «of vacuum tubes»

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.
One of the vacuum tubes in Virgo's 3 - kilometer arms where lasers keep watch for gravitational waves.
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.
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.
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My partners, Mike Glennon and Brian deGuzman, and I, developed AngioVac, a tube inserted into a vein which vacuums clots out of the body, avoiding the need for open surgery.
A Hyperloop is a nascent transportation system that pushes pods through a vacuum - sealed tube, and the goal is to transport people between cities at speeds of up to 700 mph.
She and Snyder devised a system to figure out which of the 18,000 vacuum tubes had burned out.
Inside this solid tube is a replaceable filter, and attached to it is a flexible bit of tubing on which a parent can suck, creating a vacuum effect that draws loose mucous out of a baby's nose.
The Automatic Vacuum Assisted Collection System is a series of tubes that connect all of the restaurants to the central dump that's behind Splash Mountain.
His Boring Company wants to build a «Hyperloop» vacuum - tube tunnel that would suck people from Washington, D.C. to New York in less than half an hour, at speeds of almost 800 mph.
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.
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.
After announcing «the successful completion of the world's first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment» last month, Hyperloop One is now releasing the details of a new test with their actual pod in their vacuum test 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.
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the vacuum tubes did glow with the light of the Lord.»
People did not grow up in a vacuum tube of nothingness.
This means that there is a possibility of contaminating the tubing, as well as the inside of the motor, with milk particles that were sucked with the vacuum.
A tube placed in the chest, just outside of the lungs, that creates a negative pressure (like a vacuum) to keep the lungs open.
After quite a few other tubes, wires and procedures, I slept for awhile, and 6 hours after my hospital arrival my baby was pushed and pulled out with the aid of a very strong nurse and a doctor with a vacuum extractor.
To insure the beam's integrity, the laser travels through sealed stainless steel tubes, 1.2 meters wide, that hold a vacuum to just one trillionth of earth's atmosphere, eight times less than open space.
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.
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.
Working on Nelson's bodily wounds, his surgeons covered each piece of Integra with an antibiotic - soaked sponge and ran a tube from the sponge to a vacuum pump.
Because of the narrow diameter of the xylem tubing, the degree of water tension, (vacuum) required to drive water up through the xylem can be easily attained through normal transpiration rates that often occur in leaves.»
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.
Given the vacuum - tube technology of the time, he could scan across 0.4 megahertz of the microwave spectrum one channel at a time.
This is an end - on view of the vacuum chamber, showing ion pump, which maintains the high vacuum, to the left, and the photomultiplier tube and light collection lenses to the right.
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.
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.
What emerges can be anything from a delicate vial to the thin, snaking tubes of specialised vacuum pumps.
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.
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.
Sensational Graphic Prints of Stripes and Waves from Diane Von Furstenberg, Azzedine Alaïa, Moschino, Playful Polka Dots from Moschino and Marni Scuba and Cycling look, Titillating Tribal Prints from Etro to Cacharel that makes you want to dance all night long, Savory Solid and Block Colors from Jill Sander long tube line dress and Louis Vuitton jumpsuit, as well as an Abstract Illusion leather vacuum - packed dress from Maison Martin Margiela.
Before polishing a bit of debris left by the vacuum hose on the end of the tube, the stylist in the video finishes the look by securing the tube in place with tied - and - snipped bungee cords.
Adjusted for today's dollars, RCA and the other vacuum - tube companies spent upward of $ 1 billion trying to make the transistor work in the market as it existed at that time.
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.
Still, all the vacuum - tube companies like Radio Corporation of America (RCA) saw the transistor's potential and took a license for it.
By the mid-1960s, it wasn't just Sony that disrupted the vacuum - tube companies; suppliers of miniaturized solid - state components disrupted the makers of high - power components; and the discount sales channel disrupted the appliance stores.
Independent public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum - tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.
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.
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