Milan Kundera claims that the speed of human history is accelerating, cataclysmic events following after one another with mounting speed.
When, in the 1930s, Walter Benjamin wrote of how advertising and film were "pushing script into the dictatorial vertical", he was describing an epiphenomenon: for these were merely the perpendicular labels appended to a simulacrum that, with mounting speed, was encroaching on all reality.
More than that, traffic congestion in London was mounting, making speed of distribution ever harder; the flight to the suburbs was well under way; and working people, through the day, were beginning to get their headline news from radio and television.
CEBU, Philippines -- With pressure mounting to speed up the distribution of aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan, the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington and its strike group arrived Thursday in the Philippines, and officials said relief flights could take place around the clock at two airports.
Sole gyro vertically aligned with the vehicle body frame and two accelerometers pointed in the vehicle's forward and transverse directions together with the built-in odometer or mounted wheel speed sensor form the 3D RISS as shown in Fig. 1.
It means debts mounting at dizzying speed when a £200 payday loan at 4,000% APR is rolled over and extra charges are piled on.
Several minor derailments of members of the class culminated in the serious derailment of No. A800 River Cray at Sevenoaks, Kent, in August 1927, caused by a combination of a surge in the water tanks and the flanges of the locomotive's lead driving wheels mounting the rail at speed due to poor quality track-work.
On the necessity of non-zero speed for motion, a challenge might be mounted that zero speed but non-zero acceleration is motion.
The government has placed huge importance on the construction of high-speed rail, mounting the world's largest public works project.
Steering wheel, mounted on a speed boat, had cracks emanating from one of the fastener holes until final fracture occurred.
Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation is considering a police request to furnish Page Place with a mounted security camera, speed bumps and rumble strips, which create road vibrations that cause drivers to slow.
