(Before 2000 or so, you would have handed a written request slip to a librarian, who would have relayed it to the stacks via a 1940s-era netwofk of pneumatic tubes). The worker locates the book in a warren of movable shelves (a space-saving innovation conceived in 1898 by former British prime minister William Gladstone) and places it in a plastic bin.
Remove all furniture, movable shelves and books from your nook.
Wurman et al. [9] proposed a warehouse management system called KIVA system, where many small mobile robots lift up and transport movable storage shelves to improve productivity in the warehouse.
Corner furniture, movable articles, principally cupboards, cabinets, shelves, and chairs, designed to fit into the corner of a room, for the principal purpose of saving space.
Several innovative daylighting systems such as light shelves, fixed and movable reflective louvres, reflective sills, prismatic glazing, light pipes, etc., have been developed to address this problem.
A movable spotlight, it throws sharp shadows from shelves and tabletops.
The Halley Research Station is a movable research facility located on the Brunt Ice Shelf, which juts out from Antarctica's Caird Coast into the Weddell Sea.
In his Chinatown loft, Mr. Hannerz economizes on space by suspending his television from a wall, putting furniture on wheels and partitioning space with movable panels that he made himself with off-the-shelf plastic panels and threaded rods.
They have movable parts".
