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...nufacture artificial workers is the same thing as to manufacture gasoline motors. The process must be of the simplest, and the product of the best f... ...r. A table with odds and ends, a sofa and chairs, a writing table with an electric lamp, on the right a fireplace. On a small table back of the sof... ...dy on board the Ultimus. DR. GALL That's ugly. DOMIN Fabry, telephone the electrical works. BUSMAN Fabry, my boy, don't. The wire has been cut. DOMIN... ... revolver) Well, then, I'll go. R. U. R. II-61 BUSMAN Where? DOMIN To the electrical works. There are some people still there. I'll bring them acros... .... DR. GALL Not firearms. FABRY and HALLEMEIER rush into the room carrying electric cables. FABRY All right, Hallemeier, lay down that wire. HALLEMEIE... ...about it all. FABRY Ready! DR. GALL What's that wire for, Fabry? FABRY The electrical installation. Now we can run the current all along the garden r...

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...uder D - electronics B Rapid-prototyped Cartesian robot Rapid-prototyped electric circuits John Sargrove Software and communications ... ...o one can make money by selling RepRap. ● Target cost of raw materials, motors, chips etc: $400 Economics ● Material supply - biomass. ● Br... ... Darwinian Engineering ● 19 th century: steam power ● 20 th century: electric data ● 21 st century: Darwinian engineering ● History doesn’t hap...

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...shoes, fertilizer, and cement for domestic use; handwoven carpets for export Electric power: 476,000 kW capacity; 1,390 million kWh produced, 90 kWh p... ...pare parts, machinery and equipment, some food products and con- sumer goods Electric power: 1,840,000 kW capacity; 4,900 million kWh produced, 1,610 ... ... (1985 est); asphalt, bitumen, petroleum products, metals and metallic ores, electricity, oil, vegetables, fruits, and tobacco Imports: $335 million (... ...dustries: petroleum, light indus- tries, natural gas, mining, petrochemical, electrical, automotive plants (under con- struction), and food processing... ...ction), and food processing Crude steel: 842,000 metric tons produced (1982) Electric power: 3,148,000 kW capacity; 12,410 million kWh produced, 540 k... ...il Imports: $730 million (f.o.b., 1986); fuels and lubricants, machinery and motors, motor vehicles, beverages and tobacco, foodstuffs Major trade par...

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...teeper, but sustainable, trend line. Information technology is as revolutionary as electricity. No, more than electricity. Stock valuations are rea... ... a large net creditor. Charles Kettering, head of the research division of General Motors described consumeritis thus, just days before the crash: ... ... conscious of real values. On November 3, 1929 the shares of American Can, General Electric, Westinghouse and Anaconda Copper were still substantia... ... income generated by the new asset, so profit is under-stated. And what if a hydro- electric power station starts to operate three of its ten turbin... ... supposed to guarantee an uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Brit... ... of energy with varying relative prices (example: the relative prices of oil versus electricity), etc. This kind of equipment is really an option: t...

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...f “internal money” – a voucher bearing a money value. Thus, an unemployed electrician can offer his services to an unemployed teacher who, in return... ... offer his services to an unemployed teacher who, in return will give the electrician’s children private lessons. They will pay each other with vouc... ...internal money” – a voucher bearing a monetary value. Thus, an unemployed electrician can offer his services to an unemployed teacher who, in return... ... offer his services to an unemployed teacher who, in return will give the electrician’s children private lessons. They pay each other with voucher ... ...da). They use a form of "internal money" – a voucher. Thus, an unemployed electrician exchanges his services with an unemployed teacher who, in retu... ...small companies, with less than 100 workers. Even behemoths, like General Motors, now resemble networks of small, autonomous, businesses and profit ...

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... handled. transmitted, and stored: and in the case of TOP SECRET information. this order forbids electrical transmission ezcept in encr:-'pted form. o... ...writers and other communications equipment than for such things as diathermy machin•• industrial motors, and the like, even though the teleprinters we... ...f a chrOnology for you. In brief: any time a machine is used to process classified infor­ mation electrically, the various switches, contacts, rela)'l... ...ueezingthrough with them? Masking, which is the notioD of deliberately creating a lot or ambient electrical DOise to over­ ride. jam. smear out or oth... ...ve and maintain such balance proved impractical. Hydraulic techniques were tried to pt away from electricity. but were abandoned u too cumbersome: exp... ...ng the adoption of some standardized input-output devices or which the archetype is an automatic electric typewriter called Flezowriter which can type...

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...d spring-mounted needles to pass through the holes in each card, creating an electrical loop that ad- vanced the reader’s tally for a particular hole ... ...pocket knife, but many of those are highly specialized. 7 By this reckoning, electricity is an amazingly adaptable technology, as is plas- tic (hence ... ...g. Stove Slot toaster Generally, toasters are dedicated to heating bread. An electric stove can be adapted for that task as well as for many other me... ...for regulators who request it through legal process. 39 Automak- ers General Motors and BMW offer similar privacy policies for the computer systems, su... ...as been hemorrhaging 10,000 members a day. Notes to Pages 21–23 254 General Electric’s GEnie sank to 20,000 lonely members... A pple snipped the conn... ... 308 laches defense to prevent sandbagging is seen, for example, in Webster Electric Co. v. Splitdorf Electrical Co., 264 U.S. 463 (1924) (denying cl...

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...ove­ ment for product safety. I'm sure you're aware of his battles with General Motors." "I'm sorry. You're right. This is a grass-roots movement. I... ...-percent of our energy. I've been assured that coal and oil, plus dam-generated electricity will be more than ade­ quate to fill this nations needs."... ... The two men walked through twisting corridors lined with large steam pipes and electric conduits before they came to a The Soul Bearer sign that ... ... door open not really knowing what to expect. He surveyed the room. It was the electrical room that controlled the dry cleaning opera­ tion. At the ...

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...etc.” Still the clear dark holds up unblemished. The only warn- ing is the electric skin-tension (I feel as though I were a lace- maker’s pillow) and ... ...ws or rolling head over heels from nose to midships, and to the crackle of electricity around and within us is added once or twice the rattle of hail—... ...t-rates by hurling steel hulls at ninety knots across tremblingly adjusted electric tensions, one must not complain of any rudeness in the reception. ... ...ther name—went on for at least two hours, and natu- rally produced violent electric derangements. My compasses, of course, were thrown out, my bow was... ...ing” in the centre of a main-trav- elled road where, at the best of times, electricity literally drips off one’s stanchions and screw blades, is unnec... ...etent Plane and Dirigible Driver, acquainted with Petrol Radium and Helium motors and generators. Low- level work only, but must understand heavy-weig... ...FE, SAFETY, AND COMFORT. MY HYDRAULIC BUFFER- STOP CANNOT RELEASE TILL THE MOTORS ARE WORKING UP TO BEARING SPEED, THUS SECURING A SAFE AND GRACEFUL F... ...’s bow-rudders—(Lavales patent grooving). Wove steel beltings for outboard motors (nonmagnetic). Radium batteries, all powers to 150 h.p. (in pairs). ... ...n of those parts. Magnificently 171 Kipling appointed landaus and covered motors swept in and out of the drive, and the air was gay with the merry ou...

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...nd the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympian... ... artificial stone. Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade. Pawed-over ... ...uild- ings, their faded unpleasant colors. The street was clut- tered with electric-light poles, telephone poles, gasoline pumps for motor cars, boxes... ...it would be in the evening, all lighted up—and not with no lamps, but with electrics! And maybe a gentleman friend taking you to the movies and buying... ..., till it became too cold, they sat on the porch, bawling to passers-by in motors, or to neighbors who were raking the leaves. The dust became golden ... ...ehead. But you never did look at Vida Sherwin in detail. You couldn’t. Her electric activity veiled her. She was as energetic as a chipmunk. Her finge... ...; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors. This month of romance she was eager to understand his hobbies. She ... ...of the road was familiar to every breakfast table. Even in this new era of motors the citizens went down to the station to see the trains go through. ... ...ls; they exist to fatten on the farmers, to provide for the townsmen large motors and social preferment; and, unlike the capitals, they do not give to...

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... medicine-cabi- net, so glittering and so ingenious that they resembled an electrical instrument-board. But the Babbitt whose god was Modern Appliance... ...silver, the plain twin beds, between them a small table holding a standard electric bedside lamp, a glass for water, and a standard bedside book with ... ...simple and laudable architecture, and the latest conveniences. Throughout, electricity took the place of candles and slatternly hearth- fires. Along t... ...slatternly hearth- fires. Along the bedroom baseboard were three plugs for electric lamps, concealed by little brass doors. In the halls were plugs fo... ...e vacuum cleaner, and in the living-room plugs for the piano lamp, for the electric fan. The trim dining-room (with its admirable oak buffet, its lead... ...brake on!” “I do not! And you—Always talking about how much you know about motors, and Eunice Littlefield told me you said the battery fed the generat... ...hood; the authority on everything in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Phil... ...g between the huge yellow side of the trolley and the jagged row of parked motors, shooting past just as the trolley stopped—a rare game and valiant. ... ... be- hind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. He sought to regain his lost d...

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...enue, in the harsh winter radiance, waiting till a break in the torrent of motors laden with fashionable women should let her cross, and saying to her... ...ns, as he leaned back, gave out a breath of her scent; and in the glare of electric light at the station he saw at his feet a rose which had fallen fr... ...me in a palace, with a steam yacht lying off the door-step, and a flock of motors in the garage; look around you and see. And did you ever imagine tha... ...e blistered wall-paper, the dusty wax bouquets under glass globes, and the electric lighting so contrived that as you turned on the feeble globe hangi... ...hich she changed her dress-makers, did over her drawing-rooms, ordered new motors, altered the mounting of her jewels, and generally renewed the setti... ...a beaming unconsciousness of perspective, adored large pearls and powerful motors, caravan tea and modern plumbing, perfumed cigarettes and society sc... ... her, and she seated herself under the trees near the Rond Point. Lines of motors and carriages were beginning to animate the con- verging thoroughfar...

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... the young man with the flaxen beard, evidently puzzled. “He means send an electric telegram,” volunteered the third, a pleasant-faced youth of ninete... ...hin, and on the upper edge a little stud 45 H G Wells like the stud of an electric bell. He pressed this and a rapid clicking began and ceased. He be... ...ew, shouting as they passed, shouting as they receded, until the globes of electric light receding in perspective dropped down it seemed and hid the s... ...abble Machines and pre- vent the people gathering that they turned off the electric- ity—and put this damned darkness upon us. Do you mean to say—?” “... ...ess. He watched them ap- proaching, drawing nearer past first this blazing electric star and then that; the minatory roar of the crowd over whom their... ...ble, and it was possible to attach pneu- matic wheels or even the ordinary motors for terrestrial tragic to them, and so carry them to a convenient st... ... machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators, slaughter-house machines and harvesting ...

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...t the most exciting novel conceivable on the little table that carried his electric standard. He joined the fingers of his opposed hands very carefull... ...n if the night is dark. By-the-bye—about the light—” “Full moon,” said the electrician. “I looked it up.” They went back and consulted with Cossar. He... ... upon which young Redwood was soon to crawl—stretched to the grill-guarded electric radia- tor that was to warm the whole place. A man from Cossar’s h... ... oiliness and tip the men a sixpence); there were roads and tracks for big motors and vehicles—roads made of the inter- woven fibres of hypertrophied ... ...call ‘em the Great Unwashed—You know. We’ll alter all that. And we’ll make electricity light and cook and clean up for them, and all. Fancy! They make... ...ake a nice reser- voir, and we could make a big place here to generate our electricity and have it all simply lovely. Couldn’t we, brother? And then p... ...ith its varied traffic, omnibuses, trams, vans, carts, trolleys, cyclists, motors, and a marvelling crowd—loafers, women, nurse-maids, shopping women,...

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...ays bring out old stored-away vehicles and odd people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapidated old racing motors with huge pneumatic ty... ... people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapidated old racing motors with huge pneumatic tyres. Once our holiday-makers saw a horse and c... ...inding rivers interrupted at intervals by the banked-up ponds and weirs of electric generating wheels. It was dotted with bright-look- ing, steep-roof... ...ed enclosures like gardens and rickyards and great roofs of barns and many electric dairy centres. The uplands were mottled with cattle. At places he ... ...Once or twice as the rope dragged over cables he found his hair erect with electricity, and once he had a slight shock, and sparks snapped about the c... ...against a telephone pole, and for a tense instant he anticipated either an electric explosion or a bursting of the oiled silk, or both. 61 H G Wells ...

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...beam fell on the pavement; and as Granice sprang from his cab the editor’s electric turned the corner. The two men grasped hands, and Denver, feeling ... ...y. Where? Why, in one of those no-questions- asked garages where they keep motors that are not for family use. I had a lively cousin who had put me up... ...o the house, pried open the pantry win- dow and climbed in. I had a little electric lamp in my pocket, and shielding it with my cap I groped my way to... ...proof of his guilt. Even if he had not been so incurably sick of life, the electric chair seemed now the only alternative to the strait-jacket. As he ... ...perceptible gesture, and a moment later, as if an answer to the call of an electric bell, a clerk looked in from the outer office. “Sorry, my dear fel...

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...ard and hear the clink and clatter of hansoms and the quick quiet whirr of motors; I go in vivid recent memories through the stir in the lobbies, I si... ...Street indeed, but the old playing fields are unaltered except for the big electric trams that go droning and spitting blue flashes along the western ... ... H G Wells dining-room sideboard like a palace with a large T antalus, and electric light fittings of a gay and expensive quality. There was a fine bi... ...about friendship, and lost her thread 129 H G Wells and forgot the little electric stress between us in a rather me- andering analysis of her princip... ...ok- shelves and bookcases and every sort of convenient fitting. There were electric heaters beside the open fire, and every- thing was put for me to m... ...ide the open fire, and every- thing was put for me to make tea at any time—electric kettle, infuser, biscuits and fresh butter, so that I could get up...

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... of the cheek. “Oh, I must stop worrying!” she exclaimed. “Unless it’s the electric light—” she reflected, springing up from her seat and lighting the... ...ds, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller’s window lit by electricity. And be- tween the two, what a long stretch of vacuity! How dre... ...d: “Sit down a moment.” She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery... ...nis-courts to shooting- galleries, from bridge and whiskey within doors to motors and steam-launches without. Lily had the odd sense of having been ca... ...d be described as dim: in actual fact, Lily found her seated in a blaze of electric light, impartially projected from various ornamental excrescences ... ...oned before them on his nurse’s knees. They were succeeded by Mrs. Hatch’s electric victoria, in which that lady reclined in the lonely splendour of a...

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...ls above the plain, and I have no doubt they felt extremely uneasy. As one motors through these ripe and beautiful towns and through the rich valleys ... ...here is not a cable in the place that is not immediately accessible to the electricians. We visit the dynamos and a vast organisation of switchboards…... ...ries, and so forth of the organisation. As we go about we pass a string of electric trolleys steered by impor- tant-looking girls, and loaded with she...

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...ause she had almost all the things I’ve always wanted: clothes and fun and motors, and admira- tion and yachting and Paris—why, Paris alone would be e... ... his door, and stumbling over the threshold groped in the darkness for the electric but- ton. The light showed him a telegram on the table, and he for... ... stered brown-counterpaned bed, the framed card of printed rules under the electric light switch, and the door of communi- cation with the next room. ... ...ave a vague laugh and said: “It’s really time to light up.” He pressed the electric button with one hand while with the other he opened the door; and ...

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... lined up and marched in a column of fours to mess. A few red filaments of electric lights gave a dusty glow in the brownish obscurity where the long ... ...sleep or a man hastily undressing, stretched, lighted by occasional feeble electric-light bulbs, to the sergeant’s little table beside the door. “You’... ...s some- thing inside him trembled with excitement. “Anybody know where the electricity turns on?” asked the sergeant in a good-humored voice. “Here it... ...mess.” 29 John Dos Passos It was pitch dark in that part of the camp. The electric lights had a sparse reddish glow. Fuselli kept straining his eyes,... ...ne of the lowest of three tiers of bunks roughly built of new pine boards. Electric lights placed here and there gave a faint reddish tone to the gloo... ...e of plane trees. Their riotous chirping could be heard above the sound of motors starting that came from a shed opposite the mess shack. The sergeant... ...s … ss-t!” They were quiet. Above them they heard the snoring of aeroplane motors, rising and falling like the buzzing of a fly against a window pane.... ...n go off in the direction from which they had come. Meanwhile the throb of motors overhead grew louder and louder. “Well?” came the officer’s voice. “... ...“Any damage done?” asked the major. Through the silence the snoring of the motors sing-songed ominously overhead, like giant mosquitoes. “I seem to he...

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...ral ones— 4 The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors evolution is towards motors and leglessness, etc., etc., etc.” Now there is no calculation that ... ...as domestic servants in some huge institution with lifts, vacuum cleaners, electric lighting, steam heating, and machinery that turns the kitchen into...

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...ersonalities capable of sustained relations, not mere opportunities for an electrical discharge. Yet we rate the impulse too highly. We do not admit t... ...was no reply. “Hullo!” he repeated. The sitting-room was empty, though the electric light had been left burn- 47 EM Forster ing. A look of relief cam... ..., pointing to the Mansions with the spout of the wa- tering can. “Turn the electric light on here or there, and it’s almost the same room. One evening... ...the evening. London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in ... ... counters and brass bars that began and stopped for no possible reason, of electric-light globes blossom- ing in triplets, of little rabbit-hutches fa... ...d by the clang of our civilisation, and drew up by the roadside to let the motors pass. Oniton had been a discovery of Mr. Wilcox’s—a dis- covery of w... ...aul had cabled a humorous message; Charles was to meet them with a trio of motors at Shrewsbury; Helen had refused her invitation; Tibby had never ans...

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...ly. I pride myself on not being one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity... ... great quantity of highly susceptible copper wire which gorges itself with electricity and gives you no light whatever. But here and there occurs a sc... ...the police for holding up trains. It was he who had the idea of holding up motors cars—in the South of Europe: a welcome idea to a desperate and disap... ...alling from the hill] Here are the soldiers. They are getting out of their motors. 148 GB Shaw DUVAL. [panicstricken] Oh, nom de Dieu! THE ANARCHIST....

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...f roads and means of transportation, our ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do no... ...tion was closely associ- ated, as effect and as cause, with application of electric agencies to means of communication, transportation, lighting of ci... ...ion is the fruit of experimental science. Railways, steamboats, elec- tric motors, telephone and telegraph, automobiles, aeroplanes and dirigibles are...

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...nd as it were, closing the passage, and yielding support, but there was no electric current. A blank was there instead of it: I couldn’t find anything... ... go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed, it seemed to come in wav... ...g an “active unim- passioned temperament.” In other words, shrews are the “motors,” rather than the “sensories,”[207] and their expressions are as a r...