Founded in 1723, the company pumped water from the Thames to reservoirs around Westminster through a network of hollow elm trunks.
Another important physiologic system in which peristaltic flow occurs is the lymphatic system, a poorly understood, unidirectional circulatory system that takes up excessive interstitial fluid and macromolecules and propels the acellular fluid (or lymph) through a network of capillaries, vessels, trunks, and lymph nodes to the blood circulatory system.
Under Margaret Thatcher, the government had decided to build a network of new motorways and trunk roads in order to realise her dream of universal driving.
The Chilean government decided to modernize Santiago's entire public transport system, integrating the underground and the private bus networks based on a structure of trunk and feeder services, and a fare-payment by touchless smart card.
In the developing human airways, a network of ganglia and nerve trunks accompanied by Schwann cells can be found by the middle of the first trimester (Sparrow et al., 1999).
After this you plunge into a wonderfully disorientating network of paths, leading under tree trunks and over smooth sheets of granite rock with the vast fronds of tree ferns arching out.
However, only a small proportion of this network consists of main trunk roads (the routes nationales) and motorways.
CNG Fuels plans to target this market by developing a nationwide network of gas refuelling stations on major trunking routes.
From a distance, their trunks are a network of "ski slope" trails where long, broad plates of dark and light gray crisscross.
