The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

The success of this approach to cancer treatment rests on the existence of an ' optical window ' in which biological tissue ( i. e., healthy cells ) are completely transparent at the wavelength of the laser light, while nanoparticles are highly absorbing at the same wavelength.

Harley-Davidson's attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met with limited success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary.

When all 133 studies deemed suitable in light of this consideration were re-analyzed, providing data for over 6, 000 patients, the findings suggest an average improvement in 27 % of untreated patients over the term of the studies compared with a 74 % success rate among those receiving hypnotherapy.

In 1704, Newton published Opticks and, at the time, partly because of his success in other areas of physics, he was generally considered to be the victor in the debate over the nature of light.

While the 19th century had seen the success of the wave theory at describing light, it had also witnessed the rise of the atomic theory at describing matter.

At Covent Garden in 1813, in light comedy and melodrama, he made his first decided success.

Plant species that depend on insect pollination may owe reproductive success to their appearance in ultraviolet light, rather than how colorful they appear to humans.

The UK has recently discussed whether to switch to an opt-out system in light of the success in other countries and a severe British organ donor shortfall.

This success helped other bands to sing in Dutch and / or get the spot light.

The trend to light rail in the United Kingdom was firmly established with the success of the Manchester Metrolink system in 1992.

The notion that animals, including human beings, can be taught to react to selected stimuli in a desired way -- by ' brainwashing ' them -- is one that naturally appeals to tyrants and perhaps it was this, along with the favourable light his success was casting on Soviet Russia among western intellectuals, which accounted for the astonishing tolerance with which Pavlov was treated by the Soviet regime.

The plaintiffs ' lawyers were confident that they would be able to win this suit due to the success of the Schwab case wherein tobacco companies were found guilty of fraud-like charges because they were selling the idea that light cigarettes were safer than regular cigarettes.

Such local currency initiatives have been more widely criticized in light of limited success stimulating new spending in local economies and as an unrealistic strategy to reduce carbon emissions.

Such local currency initiatives have been more widely criticized in light of limited success stimulating new spending in local economies and as an unrealistic strategy to reduce carbon emissions.

In 1987 the Duke and Duchess's private chef, a Frenchman named Jean-Pierre Béraud who was also a leading light in the success of the Chatsworth Farm Shop and Chatsworth Foods, took charge of the catering.

As with a few other attempts to use Geissler tubes for illumination, it had a short operating life, and given the success of the incandescent light, Edison had little reason to pursue an alternative means of electrical illumination.

Nikola Tesla made similar experiments in the 1890s, devising high frequency powered fluorescent bulbs that gave a bright greenish light, but as with Edison's devices, no commercial success was achieved.

Steward achieved his most notable early success with welterweight Thomas Hearns, whom he changed from a light hitting boxer into a devastating puncher.

As a supporting actor, his most notable success was as Detective Sergeant Bingham, a light comedy role played opposite Gordon Harker, in the popular Inspector Hornleigh film series: Inspector Hornleigh ( 1939 ), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday ( 1939 ), and Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It ( 1941 ).

This success by two British light cruisers against two much more powerful warships caused Hitler to lose confidence in his surface forces, and the Germans subsequently relied mainly on U-boats to attack Allied shipping.

The precise study of grammar, syntax and style, and the careful criticism of texts by the light of the best manuscript evidence, were upheld by these scholars in the Netherlands when they were almost entirely neglected elsewhere on the Continent, and were only pursued with partial success in England.

That visit convinced Read that Trek ’ s future success depended on building frames from carbon fiber, a material he envisioned could be used to make light, strong frames.

His first play, Didon ( 1734 ), which owed much to Metastasio's opera on the same subject, was a great success, and gave rise to expectations not fulfilled by the Adieux de Mars ( 1735 ) and some light operas that followed.

In 1960, the art historian Kenneth Clark made the point that the success of the composition is a result first and foremost of the accurate handling of light and shade:

These aspects of College life came to light in 1994, through James T. Fitzgerald's book Old Boys, which published some alumni's recollections of the school.

This was particularly true in Malaya, where the light Japanese tanks specially configured for jungle conflict rode roughshod over British forces amply supplied with the Boys anti-tank rifle.

* 2008: Intel reproduces the original 1894 implementation of electrodynamic induction and Prof. John Boys group's 1988 follow-up experiments by wirelessly powering a nearby light bulb with 75 % efficiency.

Thompson began singing in a plaintive honky tonk style similar to that of Ernest Tubb but desiring to secure more engagements in the dance halls of the Southwest, reconfigured his band, the Brazos Valley Boys, to play a " light " version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others made famous, emphasizing the dance beat and meticulous arrangements.

As with much manga and anime, SF and fantasy tropes and environments are common: For example Ai no Kusabi, a 1980s yaoi light novel series described as a " magnum opus " of the Boys Love genre, involves a science fictional caste system.

brings to light evidence that the Jam Boys ' lead rapper attended a prep school, directly threatening his street credibility.

All the Universal Carriers were armed with a Bren light machine gun and one Carrier in each Carrier Section also had a Boys anti-tank rifle.

Although adequate against light tanks in the early part of the war, the Boys was ineffective against heavier armour and was phased out in favour of the PIAT mid-war.

Pictures show them as equipped with what appears to be turrets fitted with a Boys ATR, a machine gun and twin light machine guns for anti-aircraft defence.

At the larger ‘ public school ’ at Kabete all the detached classrooms and houses were designed and built with connecting colonnades, in which respect I followed the excellent example set by States President Jefferson in his beautiful University of Virginia .” The use of colonnades accords with advice given to Baker by T. E. Lawrence, who regarded the tropical sun as " an enemy " and told him “ All pavements should be covered over with light vaulting .” The foundation stone was laid by Sir Edward Grigg on 24 September 1929, and the Prince of Wales School was opened in 1931-( the original idea for the name of the school was Kabete Boys Secondary School, but the first headmaster, Captain Bertram W. L. Nicholson, thought this to be too clumsy and therefore the name of The Prince of Wales School was suggested and eventually adopted ).

Innocently responding to a motorist's request that they shut off a light at his home, the Hardy Boys discover a deep mystery: the man used the name of a man, John Mead, that Chief Collig claims died five years earlier in a car accident.

The four Class 59 / 1 locomotives owned by Hanson ( parent company of the former owners Amey Roadstone Construction ) are similar to the Class 59 / 0 locomotives of Foster Yeoman, the main differences being a revised head light and marker light layout and the fitting of yaw dampers to permit the maximum speed to be increased to.

where λ is the wavelength of the light and N is the f-number ( focal length divided by diameter ) of the imaging optics.

Targets included the AFA ( Stöcken ), the Deurag-Nerag refinery ( Misburg ), the Continental plants ( Vahrenwald and Limmer ), the United light metal works ( VLW ) in Ricklingen and Laatzen ( today Hanover fairground ), the Hanover / Limmer rubber reclamation plant, the Hanomag factory ( Linden ) and the tank factory M. N. H.

The function of luminosity from a given distance L ( r ) N ( r ) determines whether the light received is finite or infinite.

In 1926 the chemist Gilbert N. Lewis coined the name photon for these particles, and after 1927, when Arthur H. Compton won the Nobel Prize for his scattering studies, most scientists accepted the validity that quanta of light have an independent existence, and Lewis ' term photon for light quanta was accepted.

The probability of absorption is proportional to the radiation intensity of the light, and also to the number of atoms currently in the ground state, N < sub > 1 </ sub >.

The rate at which stimulated emission occurs is proportional to the number of atoms N < sub > 2 </ sub > in the excited state, and the radiation density of the light.

If the higher energy state has a greater population than the lower energy state ( N < sub > 1 </ sub > < N < sub > 2 </ sub >), then the emission process dominates, and light in the system undergoes a net increase in intensity.

However when the other noise source is at a fixed level, such as thermal noise, increasing N ( the DC current or light level, etc.

The design consists of a field of light blue ( called " Larkspur " or " U. N. blue "), two narrow parallel horizontal yellow (" Bunting Yellow ") stripes in the bottom half, and a four-pointed white-fimbriated red (" Union Flag red ") star in the canton.

In 1906, a novel electrical method was used by E. B. Rosa and N. E. Dorsey of the National Bureau of Standards to obtain a value for the speed of light of 299, 781 ± 10 km / s.

In a study in 2008, a group of nautiluses ( N. pompilius ) were given food as a bright blue light flashed until they began to associate the light with food, extending their tentacles every time the blue light was flashed.

It was in his Menlo Park ( N. J .) Laboratory that Thomas Edison came up with the phonograph and a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament.

Coherent light emission from a semiconductor ( gallium arsenide ) diode ( the first laser diode ) was demonstrated in 1962 by two US groups led by Robert N. Hall at the General Electric research center and by Marshall Nathan at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

There was a third, important type of collector on Genesis: the concentrator, which collected bulk solar wind, but was discriminating in that it electrostatically repelled hydrogen and had enough voltage that it focused the light solar wind elements ( e. g., C, O, N, S ) onto a small target, concentrating those ions by a factor of ~ 20.

Lastly, in 1926, one year before the theory of quantum mechanics was published, Gilbert N. Lewis introduced the term " photon ", which soon became the name for Einstein ’ s light particle.

The macroscopic quantum coherence ( Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order, ODLRO ) & Onsager ( 1957 ), C. N. Yang ( 1962 ) for laser light, and superfluidity, is related to first-order ( 1-body ) coherence / ODLRO, while superconductivity is related to second-order coherence / ODLRO.

A water jacket W kept the temperature regulated to within 0. 001 ° C. Monochromatic green light from a mercury source Hg passed through a Nicol polarizing prism N before entering the vacuum chamber, and was split by a beam splitter B set at Brewster's angle to prevent unwanted rear surface reflections.

The case came into light during Vishwanath Pratap Singh's tenure as defence minister, and was revealed through investigative journalism by a team led by N. Ram of the newspaper The Hindu.

The white rays issuing from behind the rose at the inner angles between the arms of the cross are the rays of the divine light issuing and coruscating from the reflected light of Kether in its center ; and the letters and symbols on them refer to the analysis of the Key Word-I. N. R. I.