The most notable design aspect of Murray-Latta chairlifts is the way the cable carrying the loaded chairs can sometimes sag as much as 10 feet below the unloaded cable during long gaps between support towers.

The main reason Murray-Latta entered the skilift market in the first place can be attributed to Premier W. A. C. Bennett, who promoted British Columbian business.

Murray-Latta lift in operation.

In 1868 a Michaux cycle was brought to Coventry, England by Rowley Turner, sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company ( which soon became the Coventry Machinist Company ).

In 1904, six years after Burroughs ' death, the company moved to Detroit and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

* Oral history interview with Alfred Doughty Cavanaugh Cavanaugh discusses the work of his grandfather, A. J. Doughty, with William Seward Burroughs and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

Sellenraad describes his long association with Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the impact of World Wars I & II on the sales and service of calculators, and adding and bookkeeping machines in Europe.

Smith reviews his 46½ year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( later Burroughs Corporation ).

* An historical Burroughs Adding Machine Company / Burroughs site

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

* 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.

Stories of The Operas with Illustrations .... Camden, New Jersey, U. S. A .: Victor Talking Machine Company.

By 1901, ten-inch ( 25 cm ) records were marketed by Johnson and Berliner's Victor Talking Machine Company, and Berliner had sold his interests.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, educational shows like Sesame Street, Vision On and The Electric Company routinely showed bits that involved Rube Goldberg devices, including the Rube Goldberg Alphabet Contraption, and the What Happens Next Machine.

In 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records.

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company ( 1886 ), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( 1904 ), then the Burroughs Corporation ( 1953 ) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

* June 1 – Edward Lyon Buchwalter, Captain of American Civil War, President of Superior Drill Company, President of American Seeding Machine Company and first President of The Citizens National Bank of Springfield, Ohio ( d. 1933 )

** Lewis Machine and Tool Company

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

A few companies, including the Victor Talking Machine Company and Pathé, produced record players using compressed-air loudspeakers.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

The Machine Tool Division is currently producing Brown & Sharpe single spindle automatic screw machines, grinding machines of many types, and knee and bed-type milling machines.

When a Java technology-enabled web browser processes a page that contains an applet, the applet's code is transferred to the client's system and executed by the browser's Java Virtual Machine ( JVM ).

We could, alternatively, choose an encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring < M >.

If M is a Turing Machine which, on input w, outputs string x, then the concatenated string < M > w is a description of x.

It is also rumored that PAM actually stood for " Personal Arcade Machine ", as the majority of games for the system ended up being arcade conversions.

Machine translation, therefore, is believed to be AI-complete: it may require strong AI to be done as well as humans can do it.

The band's music is described as a blend of genres, including hard rock, funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, jazz and ska and is often compared to that of Rage Against the Machine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone.

It is also heard on Daft Punk's Alive 2007 album in the track " Too Long / Steam Machine ".

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

" Machine gun " is therefore largely synonymous with " automatic weapon " in the U. S. civilian parlance, covering all automatic firearms.

The MP5 is actually designated as a " machine pistol " by Heckler & Koch ( MP5 stands for Maschinenpistole 5, or Machine Pistol 5 ), although some reserve this designation for even smaller submachine guns such as the MAC-10 and Glock 18, which are about the size and shape of pistols.

The Japanese-made Uni-Vibe, designed to simulate the modulation effects of the rotating Leslie speaker, provided a rich phasing sound with a speed control pedal, and is heard on the Band of Gypsys track " Machine Gun ", which highlights use of the Uni-Vibe, Octavia and Fuzz Face.

Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( Fanfare for Great Woods ) ( 1986 ): This piece is joyfully exuberant, brilliantly scored for a large orchestra.

While most weapons are designed to be used exclusively in one manner or the other, FM 3-22. 68 " Crew-Served Machine Guns ", describes how the M249 can be used either as a machine gun or as an automatic rifle: " Both the M249 automatic rifle and the M249 machine gun are identical, but its employment is different.

The Steyr TMP ( Tactical Machine Pistol ) is a 9 mm blowback-operated, rotating-barrel weapon that is 282 mm long and that can fire 800 – 900 rounds per minute ; despite its small size, lack of a stock, and the fact that it is called a " tactical machine pistol ", it is often classed as a compact submachine gun.

The British Foster mounting was specifically designed for this kind of application, fitted with the Lewis Machine gun, which due to its design was unsuitable for synchronizing.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

* Midas is referenced in the 2009 song Rabbit Heart ( Raise It Up ) by British band Florence + The Machine

However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).

Many of the British musicians and bands that had embraced psychedelia went on to create progressive rock in the 1970s, including Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and members of Yes.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

From 1943 the Americans and the British agreed upon a Combined Cipher Machine ( CCM ).

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

The Soft Machine, a British group, included the song " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire " in its 1969 album Volume Two.

ARM ( formerly Advanced RISC Machine and Acorn RISC Machine ) is a reduced instruction set computer ( RISC ) instruction set architecture ( ISA ) developed by British company ARM Holdings.

* PennyMachines. co. uk, British Penny Slot and Amusement Machine website

* Isabella Summers, the songwriter, producer, remixer, and member of a British band, Florence and the Machine, originated in Aldeburgh.

British progressive rock band Soft Machine is named after Burroughs ' novel The Soft Machine.

British author H. G. Wells ' 1895 novel The Time Machine is an early example of time travel in modern fiction.

* British progressive rock band Soft Machine has songs " Pataphysical Introduction " parts I and II on their 1969 album Volume Two.

In 1929, Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records ( in British English, " gramophone records ").

Based in the city of Hannover ( the founder's birthplace ), the company had links with the U. S. Victor Talking Machine Company and the British Gramophone Company, but those links were severed at the onset of World War I.

* The Battle for Kohima 19440: The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment-The Machine Gun Battalion of the British 2nd Division ISBN 1-873907-00000001-X.

* Lone Star Toys, the name used by British company Die Cast Machine Tools Ltd ( DCMT ) for its toy products

Talk-O-Phone produced disc phonographs ( gramophones in British English ) very similar to the earliest " Victor " machines of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

The British jazz / rock band Soft Machine included a track titled Snodland on their 1973 album Seven.

In British politics, the term ' Millbank Machine ' or ' Millbank tendency ' ( a play on ' Militant tendency ') has been linked with the activities of spin doctors.

In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13, 360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.