To raise the dancer out of his personal, pedestrian self, Mr. Nikolais has experimented with relating him to a larger, environmental orbit.

he has experimented instead with personal myth-making.

Several dentists and patients with special dental problems have experimented with the device.

Always troubled by poor circulation in his feet, he experimented with various combinations of socks and shoes before finally adopting old-style felt farmer's boots with his sheepskin flying boots pulled over them.

In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as Max Gluckman and Peter Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work.

He experimented with samples by adding vinegar or brandy and found that this resulted in the immediate immobilization or killing of the organisms suspended in water.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

He is credited with the discovery of the element arsenic and experimented with photosensitive chemicals, including silver nitrate.

Initially he experimented with individual cells in series, each cell being a wine goblet filled with brine into which the two dissimilar electrodes were dipped.

It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors.

Reynolds also experimented with laminar to turbulent flow transition in 1883.

German scientists in WWII experimented with swept wings.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

Most of the information was displayed using ordinary ASCII text or ANSI art, though some BBSes experimented with higher resolution visual formats such as the innovative but obscure Remote Imaging Protocol.

He experimented with designing a new apparatus for human propulsion of small boats.

In 1991, the Orioles experimented with longtime TV writer / producer Ken Levine as a play-by-play broadcaster.

In modern times, researchers have experimented with the addition of other materials to create concrete with improved properties, such as higher strength or electrical conductivity.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

Smeaton experimented with the Newcomen steam engine and made significant improvements around the time James Watt was building his first engines ( ca.

Richard Trevithick of Cornwall had experimented with various models of steam locomotive, and in 1805 his work had culminated in an engine for the Wylam Colliery.

Linn had experimented with gasoline and steam powered vehicles and six wheel drive before this, and at some point entered Lombard's employment as a demonstrator, mechanic and sales agent.

The profitable VGN experimented with the finest and largest steam, electric, and diesel locomotives.

The banker Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, just north of Dumfries, had experimented with double hulled pleasure boats propelled by cranked paddle-wheels placed between the hulls, and he got Symington to build the patent steam engine with its drive into a pleasure boat built in 1785 which was successfully tried out on Dalswinton Loch near Miller's house on 14 October 1788.

He carried out controlled experiments on known factors such as the effect of heat, water / steam and alkalinity and experimented on variations of the winding process, such as the type of hair, the tension or tightness of winding, the flatness of winding, the overlap and pitch.

" He also experimented with using gunpowder to make a vacuum that would suck in water ( in effect the first internal combustion engine ) and worked on ideas for a steam engine.

The two men had experimented with steam engine building for years and, as early as 1829, designed a locomotive to burn anthracite coal.

His grandson, Loftus Perkins ( 1834 – 1891 ), most of whose life was spent in England, experimented with the application to steam engines of steam at very high pressures, constructing in 1880 a yacht, the Anthracite.

Using frames based both on the earlier boneshaker and the later — and in many ways completely modern — safety bicycle design, these early steam motorcycles experimented with a variety of engine placement strategies, as well as transmission and options.

'" James experimented with different types of steel wire over the next year, and finally found a spring that would walk.

The United States Army Air Forces experimented with downward-ejecting systems operated by a spring, but it was the work of Sir James Martin and his company Martin-Baker that was to prove crucial.

The following spring, Chapman's teammates experimented with leather helmets similar to those being used by football players ; that year's Spalding Guide declared, " There is nothing ' sissy ' about it.

For a time after the weapon was adopted by Denmark they experimented with dual frontal locking lugs, but decided against it on grounds of cost and weight.

File: Blaise pascal. jpg | Blaise Pascal ( 1623-1662 ): experimented with fluids, formulated Pascal's law in the 1650s stating that the pressure applied to a fluid taken in a closed container is transmitted with equal force throughout the container, proved that air has weight and that air pressure can produce a vacuum, namesake of the unit of pressure: the pascal ( Pa )

Concurrently, through 1974, psychologist John Money at Johns Hopkins Hospital experimented on thirteen XYY boys and men ( ages 15 to 37 ) in an unsuccessful attempt to treat their history of behavior problems by chemical castration using high-dose Depo-Provera — with side-effects of weight gain ( avg.

Fokker initially experimented with mounting three machine guns on the E. IV, but the extra weight rendered the aircraft virtually unflyable, and production E. IVs were fitted with two guns.

Committed to a ' high tech ', light weight, infra-structural approach that was focused towards survival technology, the group experimented with modular technology, mobility through the environment, space capsules and mass-consumer imagery.

They experimented with steel-hulled five-masters, first the barque Potosi ( 1895 ) and in 1902 the huge full rigged ship Preussen with a length of 147 m, 5. 081 GRT, and over 7. 800 tons dead weight.

The multi-discipline triathlon and decathlon events that had been experimented with at the 1904 Games were both absent, as was the 56 pound weight throw.

The car made extensive use of titanium in its chassis and suspension, and Bryant experimented with aerodynamics and with early use of carbon-fibre to reduce weight.

He experimented for two weeks with the rhyme scheme he felt the music called for, sets of triple rhymes, but found that the heavy rhyming " seemed at best to give a pleasant and jingly Mother Goose quality to a tune which should throw its weight around more.

In 1907, the Mint had experimented by striking about two dozen pieces of the same weight as the double eagle, bearing Saint-Gaudens's design, but which had a smaller, thicker planchet.

Rous experimented with weights until he arrived at a relationship between age and maturity, expressed in terms of weight.