The New Yorker, January 10 , 1942P. 9 Demolition of the Japanese Pavilion on the site of the World's Fair brought to light the fact that the famous hand-embroidered murals were hand-embroidered only to the height of six feet, machine-embroidered for several feet above, and painted at the top.
By Margo Dawson and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, January 10 , 1942P. 9 Demolition of the Japanese Pavilion on the site of the World's Fair brought to light the fact that the famous hand-embroidered murals were hand-embroidered only to the height of six feet, machine-embroidered for several feet above, and painted at the top.
The crane did not collapse or fall, but a worker who was midway up the 212-foot machine was hospitalized with severe injuries to his right arm.
As if those statistics were not enough, here are more: The Staten Island wheel will be almost three times the height of the largest Ferris wheel in the United States, the 212-foot machine at the Texas State Fair.
We were riding tandem, and Holly's grip on me tightened in direct proportion to our altitude as we ascended to Ptarmigan Pass and up along 12,400-foot Machine Gun Ridge.
The 20-foot machine can produce 600 gallons of clean water per day.
The portable 4-foot-by-1-foot rectangular machine shoots out laser pulses from up to 90 feet away and analyzes the resulting scattered light pattern to identify what it hits -- solid, liquid or gas -- in 60 seconds or less.
The 11-foot-long, 7-foot-high machine will be on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., until May 2009, when it will be moved to the Seattle area, to the home of Nathan Myhrvold, a former executive at Microsoft.
In "Martinete," she achieved sleek synchronization as three dancers passed up long ruffled skirts in favor of black pants — all the better for transforming their stomping feet into machine guns.
However, when out about eight hundred feet the machine began pitching again, and, in one of its darts downward, struck the ground.
The function of the electric foot rehabilitation machine is to help patients who need physical therapy for a foot.
