Sentences with phrase «on small beams»

Constructed by farmer and potter Hervey Brooks, the Pottery Shop still bears Brooks's initials on a small beam, upside down, near where Old Sturbridge Village's potters work today.

Not exact matches

Now, having seen the beaming smile and buddy - movie embrace of David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the doorstep of No 10, a new, mischievous thought dawns: maybe a Con - Lib Dem coalition is precisely what Cameron, and a small circle around him, wanted all along.

Dr Sarri explains: «We thought that the best way to work out how gamma ray bursts are produced would be to mimic them in small - scale reproductions in the laboratory — reproducing a little source of these beams and look at how they evolve when left on their own.

Unlike other techniques that depend on the ability to calculate the nuclear structure from the original data, which works best for small molecules, we only need to know the properties of our electron beam and experimental setup.»

The condensate, which is made from around 4000 cooled rubidium atoms, is trapped inside the beams by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.

Such beams could provide new ways of manipulating matter on small scales.

The gold particles on the plate act as nano - optics and make it possible to focus a beam of light below the diffraction limit so as to precisely measure something that is very small — right down to 20 nanometres.

To do so they made the atoms in the sample vibrate by shining a laser beam through a small hole in the photodetector, which was placed right on top of the sample.

They then directed a second laser beam through an instrument that splits the laser beam into many smaller beams, the number and angle of which depend on the radio frequency applied to the deflector.

What they call «optical molasses» slows atoms to a crawl by focusing three pairs of laser beams on a small volume of space that also contains a magnetic field.

He points out that the ring structure, which Lipson says is designed for both low mass and malleability, harnesses the optical force on a greater scale than the smaller vibrating beam did.

To peer inside the kerogen, they used small - angle neutron scattering, shooting a beam of subatomic neutrons through a substance and collecting information on the neutrons» behavior to determine the properties of the pores.

To steer the beam it relies on wave interactions among signals from a multitude of small antenna elements

Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

Next year, SuperKEKB will accelerate the two beams simultaneously, compress them into a smaller area than any other accelerator on Earth, then smash them together to produce copious quantities of B mesons and tau leptons — heavy particles whose decays can reveal new physics.

So far, Davidson has experimented with small arrays of gold nano - spirals on a glass substrate made using scanning electron - beam lithography.

A small amount of light also seeps into the darker middle part of the beam, heating the air on one side of the particle and pushing it along the length of the laser beam.

«An automated system to mount cryo - cooled protein crystals on a synchtrotron beam line, using compact sample cassettes and a small - scale robot.»

The sauna itself is essentially a part - glass, part - wood box with a small wooden bench to sit on, and a square light that beams down color from the ceiling.

After their bomber suffers engine failure, Louie and two other survivors — Phil (Domhnall Gleeson, «About Time») and Mac (Finn Witrock, «Noah»)-- spend weeks on end adrift on a small, yellow raft, desperate for food and water and made crusty by the beaming sun.

Ford has made the decision to offer smaller - engined models with a twist - beam rear suspension system (or a torsion bar to you and I), but will maintain independent rear suspension on the rest of the range.

More small improvements include a one - piece welded exhaust system that uses one big muffler branching into two tailpipes to reduce squeaks and rattles; self - adjusting clutch linkage; headlights that project a beam that is wider near the car and extends 10 percent farther down the road; changes to the climate - control system that result in faster heating and more durable air conditioning; new 16 - inch aluminum wheels; and a larger torque converter on the V - 8 automatic.

The small video - chat self - portrait window should stay visible on top of all other OS apps so that at least I can see what they are seeing... While you're at it, let me beam the image of the document I'm viewing to their playbook, if I need to.

Two others were almost completely enclosed on top (caves) with a small opening letting bright sunlight beams down onto the turquoise waters below...

You start out as one of the smallest objects on the screen, but by merging with objects a size larger, you increase your own size and gravitational pull», and in Dotstream, also getting good reviews at 4CR, «you are a beam of light that is in a race with four other beams of light.

A structure of four wooden beams extending diagonally from a point on the floor frames a scattering of small multiples: melted or crumpled sheets of clear acrylic; blue resin casts of bell peppers; oversize screws and bolts laid out in parallel clusters.

Another three smaller works based on security cameras hang from the beams, acting as observers of the strange environment.

I think of this as the subtext of Untitled (1968), a relatively small work painted in acrylic on paper mounted on board, with its flickering flames of bright cardinal red licking at the edges of the bottom beam of black.

Formed in 1996 by Jack Millar and Robert Kreklewetz, the firm is small, but has laser - beam focus, working exclusively on tax, trade, GST / HST, and customs matters.

Blu - ray discs derive their name from the blue laser found in Blu - ray players — the smaller focus blue laser beam allows for higher precision, which in turn allows for a higher density of data on the disc compared to DVDs.

The Dolby Vision presentation here is downright awful — spectral highlights often look comically overblown — backlight windows in the women's gym beam with atomic radiance, lights burn like small suns (remember on the B7 you can't hop between Dolby Vision and HDR10 to compare).

While most sound bars rely solely on digital signal processing for virtual surround effects, Yamaha's sound projectors employ an array of small drivers the company calls «beams,» which bounce sound off the walls to create a bigger, more immersive audio environment.

Ceiling beams take on chic shine thanks to coats of stain and sealer; large floor tiles laid in a seemingly random fashion generate a pillowed effect; and smaller, light - tone tiles that run from countertop to ceiling set the perimeter aglow.