They also give information which will aid in the design of a more satisfactory instrument for the measurement of the normal pressures.

Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.

The design of the bow and the manner of holding it descend from the older viol instrument family.

The MICAS instrument was a design success, but the ultraviolet channel failed due to an electrical fault.

However, because the SEM image relies on surface processes rather than transmission, it is able to image bulk samples up to many centimetres in size and ( depending on instrument design and settings ) has a great depth of field, and so can produce images that are good representations of the three-dimensional shape of the sample.

The chromatic harmonica uses a button-activated sliding bar to redirect air from the hole in the mouthpiece to the selected reed-plate, although there was one design, the " Machino-Tone ," which controlled airflow by means of a lever-operated movable flap on the rear of the instrument.

The disadvantage is that this design limits the pitch of the instrument because string lengths are more fixed and lighter strings are needed to lift it much more than a tone.

The result of the lute's design is an instrument extremely light for its size.

Pressure range, sensitivity, dynamic response and cost all vary by several orders of magnitude from one instrument design to the next.

George Cammann perfected the design of the instrument for commercial production in 1852, which has become the standard ever since.

Sax's patent expired in 1866 ; thereafter numerous saxophonists and instrument manufacturers implemented their own improvements to the design and keywork.

In 1851, Irish physician Arthur Leared invented a binaural stethoscope, and in 1852 George Cammann perfected the design of the instrument for commercial production, which has become the standard ever since.

In the Church of England, some liberal clergymen interpreted natural selection as an instrument of God's design, with the cleric Charles Kingsley seeing it as " just as noble a conception of Deity ".

A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally known or reasonably ascertainable, by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers.

Improvements to instrument design and metal making in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance led to an increased usefulness of the trumpet as a musical instrument.

The bore is actually a complex series of tapers, smaller at the mouthpiece receiver and larger just before the flare of the bell begins ; careful design of these tapers is critical to the intonation of the instrument.

Since the late 1980s, numerous instrument makers, including Eric Jensen, Francois Danger, Jan Goorissen, and Jonathan Wilson, have experimented with the design and construction of electric viols.

One of the design objectives of the instrument is to disturb the circuit as little as possible and so the instrument should draw a minimum of current to operate.

This large-holed instrument could produce greater volume of sound than other flutes, and Boehm set out to produce his own large-holed design.

The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, a modified helicon, was created by J. W. Pepper – a Philadelphia instrument maker who created the instrument in 1893 at Sousa ’ s request using several of his suggestions in its design.

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.

Michelangelo was the most distinguished of several noted architects who helped design it.

); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

The design by Gaudi was not followed in some aspects.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

The mechanical and logic design was worked out by Dr. Atanasoff over the next year.

The design, development and construction of the center was conducted by Kurt H. Debus, a member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's original V-2 rocket engineering team.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

Commodore's design choice to remain with the 68000 architecture ensured that code was backward-compatible across the Amiga line.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

The original design was to include a private art gallery, but this was never built.