It contained approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) of wire, 280 dual-triode vacuum tubes, 31 thyratrons, and was about the size of a desk.

The queue manager is responsible for the issue queues, which can be set up in various ways depending on the help desk size or structure.

A laser projection device approximately the size of a computer mouse projects the outline of keyboard keys onto a flat surface, such as a table or desk.

Some time later Teller used similar language in a letter to Paul Nitze, who was preparing a new round of strategic limitations talks, stating that " A single x-ray laser module the size of an executive desk ... could potentially shoot down the entire Soviet land-based missile force ..."

Kyoto held a year-long celebration commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Genji in 2008, with poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera ( where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed ), and women dressing in traditional 12-layered Heian court and ankle-length hair wigs.

Introduction of the Siemens system 7. 500 hardware family, ranging from desk size models for use in office environment to large models with water cooling.

Depending on the size of the library, there may be more than one desk ; at some smaller libraries all transactions may occur at one desk, while large urban public libraries may employ subject-specialist librarians with the ability to staff multiple reference or information desks to answer queries about particular topics at any time during regular operating hours.

Most finished models are designed to be tiny, of a size suitable for an office desk decoration.

This kind of armoire desk is a morphological descendant of the famous Wooton desk by its size and by the necessity to constantly store papers to shut it.

When a pedestal desk is doubled in size to form a nearly square working surface, and drawers are put on both sides to accommodate two users at the same time, it becomes a partners desk.

During elementary school, they had to make a specialized desk for him, due to his size.

The armoire desk is the closest modern relative to the Wooton desk in its size and form.

A campaign desk is an antique desk of normal size which was used by officers and their staffs in rear areas during a military campaign.

A Cheveret desk is an antique desk of very small size which features a single drawer under the writing surface.

Because of this intended venue and its small size it is in a sense a cousin to the telephone desk.

: It's only about the size of a desk so it's small enough to fit in almost anywhere.

The size of the entire platform is roughly that of a large desk.

The master bedroom has a queen size bed, desk and television.

By bringing greatly increased quantities of paperwork to daily life, the duplicating machine and the typewriter gradually changed the forms of the office desk and transformed the nature of office work.

While he was speaking, one of two news editors who had been standing by the newsroom's two wire machines pulled a bulletin from the Associated Press machine and began walking toward Cronkite's desk with it.

" Fiala reached into a desk drawer, removed an Uzi machine pistol and aimed it at the two men.

* GB patent 868, 753 – Improvements in or relating to Calculating Machines – Norbert Kitz, Robert Milburn, Christopher Webb: Bell Punch Company Ltd., 1961 ( first application Sept. 6, 1956, filed Sept. 6, 1957 ),-Electronically controlled key operated office desk type calculating machine capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

In a waiting room there may be a system whereby the queuer asks and remembers where his place is in the queue, or reports to a desk and signs in, or takes a ticket with a number from a machine.

The answering machine put voicemail by the desk, and then it went back into the network.

In 1983, Peterborough was equipped with its own studio, using a 12-channel Audix mixing desk made in the county and two Studer B67 tape machines, with a third machine for editing in a neighbouring office.

Jill calls and the message goes to the answering machine, saying she " better have a good damn reason for not calling ," Anne wordlessly responds by tossing a raptor claw on her desk.

A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel audio tape recording, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.

' while tapping a machine gun on his desk.

• The show included an on-set fax machine ( at the time the show ran these were just becoming popular ) and Vizard regularly read out Viewer faxes and rang viewers from the phone on his desk.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

The cavernous depth, cluttered with antiques, echoed to her hard heels as she walked directly to the office in the rear and took the seat at his desk.

He stood there staring with disbelief at the vacant desk.

Looking around slowly, he saw a marble fireplace, a desk, a low bookcase of mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of glass panes in the doors.

When everything had been done, Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

He looked down over the banister at the hotel desk, with the telephone and pen set.

Mickey found himself leaning against the desk, with stiff hands, panting for breath.

Seated in front of the desk, Hank said, `` I'm looking for some information with very little to go on, Sheriff ''.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Alec leaned on the desk, holding the clerk's eyes with his.

He stopped and looked at the picture of his son, the picture on his desk which had changed with the years from a laughing baby to a candidate for Hanford College.

" He is constantly stressed out due to having to deal with Beavis and Butt-Head: he shakes when he speaks, he is frequently rummaging through his desk for prescription medications including Maalox, and in one early episode, he is even shown guzzling a bottle of Old Crow bourbon whiskey.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

In 2001, he collaborated with design company IDEO to come up with the “ perfect cubicle ”, a fitting creation since many of the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates.

The winery displays several of Coppola's Oscars along with memorabilia from his movies including a desk from The Godfather and a restored 1948 Tucker Sedan.

The remaining checks, made out to " Treasurer General of the Republic " ( a position that ceased to exist after the revolution ), were shown stuffed in a desk drawer in Castro's office during a television interview with the leader years ago.

A help desk is an information and assistance resource that troubleshoots problems with computers or similar products.