`` The equipment was fine '', Rob stated, standing up.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

Early equipment was very flimsy ; ;

More aerial and underground equipment was installed as well as office improvements to take care of the expanding business.

special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;

He was in his car with his camera and equipment bag in less than two minutes, and it took him only three more to reach the corner, a block from Columbus Avenue.

The spy ring also was particularly interested in ASDIC, the underwater equipment for detecting submarines, it was testified.

If A-Z could buy Ticonderoga cheaply and use their presses and dies and other equipment, if William could hit precisely the right promotion note, if the money hurdle was not insurmountable.

Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.

Her own sound production equipment was essentially more instrumental than vocal.

Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.

An operator was needed to operate the control switches to set up its functions, much like the electro-mechanical calculators and unit record equipment of the time.

Another challenge was a serious shortage of horses and equipment.

" The pair's first task of the moonwalk was to unload the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), along with other equipment, from the Lunar Module.

The phaser effect was originally a simpler implementation of the flanger effect since delays were difficult to implement with analog equipment.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

Italy was providing $ 20 million of developmental funding as well as several millions worth material, equipment and related services.

Benjamin was the intellectual of the three and at a young age he conducted chemical experiments with his father's photographic equipment.

A rapid reduction in personnel and active equipment was to be carried out in parallel with a general re-alignment of strategic interests.

This period is most widely regarded as " The Golden Age of Hi-Fi ", when tube equipment manufacturers of the time produced many models considered endearing by modern audiophiles, and just before solid state equipment was introduced to the market, subsequently replacing tube equipment as mainstream.

they may have a ' cuddy ' cabin, where the front part of the hull has a raised solid roof to provide a place to store equipment or to offer shelter from wind or spray.

Older, vacuum tube ( valve ) based equipment is generally much less vulnerable to EMP than newer solid state equipment.

Most tape-punching equipment used solid punches to create holes in the tape.

Such systems include refuse paper and plastic fuel production facilities that convert wastepaper / plastics into an easy-to-handle solid fuel, equipment that converts old tires into highway paving materials and tiles, and machinery that sorts glass bottles by size and color.

The meaning of the term " lo-fi " has changed over time ; in the 1970s vacuum tube equipment was considered the lower fidelity alternative to the new semiconductor solid state equipment, although some still consider valves the only " pure " way of listening to music.

The Elliott Company, owned by the Carrier Corporation from 1957 until 1979 and by United Technologies Corporation until a 1987 buyout that returned the company to a privately-owned status, only to become an Ebara Corporation subsidiary in 2000, has always had a solid reputation in the dynamo, turbine, and large rotating equipment industry.

* Hits-A player is hit if a paintball leaves a solid, quarter-sized mark anywhere on the player's body or equipment.

This phenomenon is of concern to the military as the EMP may damage solid state electronic equipment.

In 2005, some telecommunications equipment companies began using solid etalons that are themselves optical fibers.

Despite the school's low prestige, Mitsuda received solid instruction from his professors, most of them practicing musicians who would take Mitsuda to gigs with them to help carry and set up equipment.

While early answering machines used magnetic tape technology, most modern equipment uses solid state memory storage ; some devices use a combination of both, with a solid state circuit for the outgoing message and a cassette for the incoming messages.

Such devices usually use a liquid fuel ( usually a petroleum derivative or some kind of alcohol ), but gaseous fuels like propane and solid fuels such as wood shavings and hexamine are also used depending on the stove design ; while two-burner models are commonly used for front-country campstoves and function much like residential gas stoves, backpacking stoves generally put out a much more concentrated and less powerful flame and require lightweight cooking equipment (" billycans ") made of aluminum or titanium rather than more typical kitchen-type utensils.

All wood-based structural use panels can be cut and installed with the same ease and types of equipment used with solid wood.

These newer cars ( units 1800 through 1885 ) use modern AC traction motors with solid state controls manufactured by General Electric, can only operate as mated pairs, and can partially interoperate with the older three series of cars in emergencies or non-revenue equipment moves, but normally are not interoperated in revenue service.

Although the modern solid state transmitting equipment requires much less maintenance than the older units, an extensive network of stations, needed to provide reasonable coverage along main air routes, is a significant cost in operating current airway systems.

Using the sensory equipment available to the Culture, Minds can see inside solid objects ; in principle they can also read minds by examining the cellular processes inside a living brain, but Culture Minds regard such mindreading as taboo.

Hughes Mk7 fire control system with laser rangefinder and solid state ballistic computer ; passive night vision equipment, Urdan cupola.

More specialized equipment is needed to dim fluorescent, mercury vapor, solid state and other arc lighting.