Since the carousel elements are moveable, adults and kids alike scramble into seats and buckle themselves into the mouths of giant fish or aboard boats, pushing pedals and pulling levers to make the machines rock and spew steam. .
According to the results of the tests, the effective parameters on the penetration rate of the rotary drilling machines were divided into three classes: specifications of the machines, rock mass properties and chemical component of intact rock.
If they've learned anything from 30 years of ploughing their machine-rock furrow, it's how to balance lushness and minimalism to stunning effect: Slow, for instance, creeps up on you in stages, its blues guitar riff giving way to a fuzzy gospel choir; My Little Universe is cut-glass techno, each beat pristinely picked out.
And then there's the music, which slips a softly stroked, super-70s radio-pop satin bomber jacket over some lithe synth'n'drum-machine rocking shoulders (Nick used to be in a band with Pip Ladyhawke - and it shows).
"This house becomes a time machine," Mr. Rock said.
SWINE Funky retro décor, including a pinball machine and rock 'n' roll photos, defines this two-story restaurant and bar.
While working at the University of Turin on the construction of a compressed-air ram to supply extra power to locomotives on steep grades, Sommeiller conceived the idea of adapting the machine to rock drilling, for which steam power was not suited because of the difficulty of transmitting it over distances.
It mingled drum machines and rock guitar, adding synthesizers and samples, with Mr. Jones singing and Don Letts sometimes rapping or toasting, Jamaican-style.
In a cavernous, dimly lit plant that is filled with enormous grinding machines, the rock is purified, reduced to powder and formed into small pellets.
