Sentences with word «pyrotechnic»

Many of his sculptural experiments were realised as unpredictable volatile events, involving explosions and fireworks — in 1979 he joined the London Fire Brigade to further his knowledge of pyrotechnic devices.

Performed miscellaneous duties and experiences including: Inspection of high hazard facilities throughout village, inspection of local pyrotechnic displays, and coordination of interdepartmental appointments

Mechanically, there are antilock disc brakes with brake assist, electronic stability control and traction control, seat belts with pyrotechnic pretensioners, daytime running lights, front and rear fog lights, and Volvo's new «Four C chassis,» a $ 995 option.

The scissor doors will blow open via integrated pyrotechnic devices should the car ever come to rest on its roof after an accident.

Pyrotechnic actuators located in the bonnet hinges lift the hood around 60 mm in less than 20 milliseconds from the moment of impact.

The beginning of the siege, where the police station is peppered with hundreds of bullets, is particularly well - done: in the absence of real ammunition, Carpenter uses pyrotechnic charges to disturb office materials in a unnerving way.

«We want to know your business,» he says, pointing out airbags are inflated by pyrotechnic gas charges that are pressurized up to 7,000 psi (483 bar).

In the event of a collision, a small pyrotechnic charge raises the trailing edge of the bonnet close the lower edge of the windscreen.

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

Mercedes hasn't yet revealed how the SLS overcomes this snag, but unofficial rumours suggest some form of pyrotechnic system able to release the hinges so the doors can be pulled free.

For the past four years, grand firework displays have been absent from the North London venue of Alexandra Palace, but this year, they're back with what is anticipated to be one of the greatest pyrotechnic shows in the capital this year, courtesy of award winners Star Fireworks.

Rusty has the ability to ignite oxygen in the air and direct it as pyrotechnic blasts.

Seatbelts The front seatbelts are equipped with pyrotechnic pretensioners and load limiting retractors to help minimize injury potential in a frontal collision.

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

Part dinner theater, part pyrotechnic arena rock, part Borscht - belt comedy.

And if you can stick it out to the end of the day, the short yet impressive grand finale pyrotechnic waterfall display (at the River Theatre) will inspire you to make all sorts of marvelous summertime plans.

The Chadwicks claimed to uncover models and plans that Dean had prepared for the construction of a small volcano — complete with pyrotechnic effects — on the grounds of his home at Wave Hill.

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.

Every spacecraft deploys valves and other instruments using pyrotechnic mechanisms once they reach orbit, to prepare for further flight operations.

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

Pyrotechnic from Formula X for Sephora is the last of my red manis from last week.

Topping a private pyrotechnic display was the head - scratcher, he says, but the answer came from someone else's book.

You should also be aware that the police will be assisted by pyrotechnic search dogs.

The early event, an eight - minute pyrotechnic display filled with flaming starbursts and firecrackers, saw purple fireworks rain down from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to honour the late artist Prince.

The two displays comprised an estimated seven tonnes of fireworks, including 12,000 shells, 25,000 shooting comets and 100,000 individual pyrotechnic effects — the biggest show the city has ever seen.

Because hexamine and 5 - amino - 1H - tetrazole are widely used in the chemical industry, the new formulation could easily be adopted by pyrotechnic producers.

With summer foliage now in its prime, the earth's pyrotechnic sprays and fragrant herbs are wonderfully abundant.

Voldemort's pyrotechnic assault upon Hogwarts may come a little late for July 4, but it is more than worthy of Bastille Day.

He befriends a boy named Russell (Julian Dennison), who has pyrotechnic abilities and who has been bullied and abused at a Dickensian home for young mutants.

Through stunning cinematography, director Viktor Jakovleski takes us inside preparations for the annual pyrotechnic festival in Tultepec, Mexico.

Ghirahim was a villain in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and his fighting style in Hyrule Warriors mixes together both dexterous swordplay and pyrotechnic magic.

For this week's edition of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky take a look at Transformers: The Last Knight, which finds Michael Bay, the maestro of pyrotechnic wreckage, pitting alien robots against the audience's patience for the fifth time.

Hong Kong's reigning champion of pyrotechnic mayhem continues to move outside of his comfort zone with the psychological crime drama That Demon Within, but the results fail to hit the mark as poor plotting, loose direction and an increasingly preposterous...

It's professional hack extraordinaire Joel Schumacher's latest sloppy bucket of pyrotechnic tripe, and not coincidentally the umpteenth summer skinny dip in Jerry Bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle.

Documentary on the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico.

After swiftly establishing, commenting upon and making fun of the most cliché - ridden plot motivation imaginable for an antihero in love, the bulk of the film focuses on Deadpool attempting — in his cynical, trying - not - to - care way — to save a rage - filled mutant teenager with pyrotechnic powers from a super-soldier from the future (Brolin's Cable) intent on killing him, Terminator - style.

Saying but three words throughout, Bang Bang is one of the most interesting characters of the piece, fit with pyrotechnic exploits and all.

Before a side - impact crash, a small, replaceable pyrotechnic in the seat bolster explodes and activates an air bag that can move the passenger up to 2.75 inches toward the centerline of the car.

Pulling over to enter an address, we take solace in the knowledge that, if we get rear - ended while sitting on the side of an interstate under a shady overpass, the Murano CC can choose to deploy its front, side, or side curtain air bags, and maybe even the two pyrotechnic pop - up roll bars in the rear headrests.

automatic pyrotechnic deployment of the rollover hoops should dedicated sensors detect that a rollover is imminent,

The front seatbelts are equipped with pyrotechnic pre-tensioners and load - limiting retractors to help mitigate injuries in a frontal collision.