Before the invention of transistors, vacuum tubes ruled the world. The only way to get amplification or switching (or any electrical control of current) back then was to use tubes. But some tube ...

The earliest woolen cloths found in Scandinavia are quite rough and irregular, but cloths dating from the Roman Ages are much finer and closely woven. The more regular cloth has a plain twill weave, ...

Elaine Answer: Well, I think all technology builds on what was known ... This might have worked if the Romans had had steel wire cable, which they did not, of course. But if you have steel wire ...

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His earliest memories, now nearly a century old, may well be of himself as a young ... the food was stored in a special cabinet with sides of wire mesh. Then, perhaps armed with an oilpaper ...

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Chevrolet has presented new Corvettes that have stimu­lated our cranial synapses with exotic new technology ... A steel roll-bar structure is welded to the rear intersection of these frame ...

The structure’s front and rear modules are mirrors of each other, with ‘gigacasting’ construction reducing 86 different steel ...

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We got behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz that took part in the 1924 Targa Florio legendary Italian road race.

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