A benign sessile race, using wheeled mechanical constructs to move and as short-term memory.

In memory of his renowned contribution to the discipline of mechanical engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering building at Heriot-Watt University, in his birthplace of Edinburgh, is called the James Nasmyth Building.

Better yet, bubble memory devices needed no moving parts: the field that pushed the bubbles along the surface was generated electrically, whereas media like tape and disk drives required mechanical movement.

Bubble memory found uses in niche markets through the 1980s in systems needing to avoid the higher rates of mechanical failures of disk drives, and in systems operating in high vibration or harsh environments.

The successor to direct recording voting machines, a direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting system records votes by means of an electronic display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ; that processes voter selections by means of a computer program ; and that records that processed voting data in memory components.

Arthur, Oriana, Bix, and Lee continue to explore the caverns underneath Dinotopia where they come across instantly germinating fern spores, uncut sunstones that appear to store ancestral memory, and mechanical limbs that twitch when the sunstone is brought near.

A direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting machine records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ( typically buttons or a touchscreen ); that processes data with computer software ; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.

Pippin's work shows a strong interest in the mechanical, which he has said stems from an early childhood memory of seeing his father surrounded by the wires and tubes of a television set he was repairing.

Brainiac has a " 12th-level intellect ", allowing calculation abilities, enhanced memory and advanced understanding of mechanical engineering, bio-engineering, physics, and other theoretical and applied sciences, as well as extensive knowledge of various alien technologies.

Component coverage areas include CPUs, motherboards, core-logic chipsets, memory, videocards, mechanical hard drives, solid-state drives, optical drives, cases, component cooling, and other hardware intrinsic to PC building projects.

" building shall be employed for the accommodation of the Edinburgh School of Arts ; whereby the memory of Watt may forever be connected with the promotion, among a class of men to which he himself originally belonged, of those mechanical arts from which his own usefulness and glory arose.

One of the key ideas was that the computer would store a program in its electronic memory rather than programming the computer using mechanical switches and patch cables.

It is a type of nonvolatile random access memory based on the mechanical position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a chip-like substrate.

The Adamists are ' classic ' humans who employ mechanical and cybernetic technology and use implants ( including ' neural nanonics ', essentially computer systems built into the brain which allow anything from enhanced memory and entertainment access to controlling starships ) to achieve their ends.

Latency inherent from mechanical drive performance can also be eliminated by using Live USB or Live SD flash memory to load systems at electronic speeds which are orders of magnitude faster.

A direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting machine records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ( typically buttons or a touchscreen ); that processes data by means of a computer program ; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.

* Being mechanical devices they are more sensitive to physical shock and temperature changes than flash memory, though in practice they are very robust and manufacturers have added several features to the more recent models to improve reliability.

In each case, the unit loads the media into a digital memory chip to prevent premature wearing of the mechanical parts.

It was an improvement on the Z1, using the same mechanical memory but replacing the arithmetic and control logic with electrical relay circuits.

Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.

All CGS mechanical units are unambiguously derived from these three base units, but there are several different ways of extending the CGS system to cover electromagnetism.

In measurements of purely mechanical systems ( involving units of length, mass, force, energy, pressure, and so on ), the differences between CGS and SI are straightforward and rather trivial ; the unit-conversion factors are all powers of 10 arising from the relations and.

This is because there is no one-to-one correspondence between electromagnetic units in SI and those in CGS, as is the case for mechanical units.

This happens for mechanical systems derived from Newton's laws as long as the coordinates are the position and the momentum and the volume is measured in units of ( position ) × ( momentum ).

An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second ( CGS ) system of units, symbol " erg ".

His invention, known as the Polish mine detector, was used by the Allies alongside mechanical methods, to clear the German mine fields during the Second Battle of El Alamein when 500 units were shipped to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army.

The present day measurement of knots and log are determined using a mechanical tow, electronic tow, hull-mounted units ( which may or may not be retractable ), Doppler ( either ultrasonic or radar ), or GPS.

Some of the reasons for the failure of 100 words per minute HF RTTY included poor operation of improperly maintained mechanical teleprinters, narrow bandwidth terminal units, continued use of 170 Hz shift at 100 words per minute and excessive error rates due to multipath distortion and the nature of ionospheric propagation.

Steam turbines are made in a variety of sizes ranging from small < 0. 75 kW ( 1 < hp ) units ( rare ) used as mechanical drives for pumps, compressors and other shaft driven equipment, to 1, 500, 000 kW ( 2, 000, 000 hp ) turbines used to generate electricity.

Transverse mechanical waves ( e. g., a wave on a string ) have an amplitude expressed as a distance ( e. g., meters ), longitudinal mechanical waves ( e. g., sound waves ) use units of pressure ( e. g., pascals ), and electromagnetic waves ( a form of transverse vacuum wave ) express the amplitude in terms of its electric field ( e. g., volts / meter ).

Examples of optical beam steering approaches include mechanical mirror-based gimbals or beam-director units, galvanometer mechanisms that rotate mirrors, Risley prisms, phased-array optics, and microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ) using micro-mirrors.

Many cylinder models have power heads as standard or add-on equipment containing the same sort of mechanical beaters as in upright units, making them as efficient on carpets as upright models.

The Chinese odometer came in the form of a wheeled-carriage, its inner gears functioning off the rotated motion of the wheels, and specific units of distance — the Chinese li — marked by the mechanical striking of a drum or bell for auditory alarm.

In all of physics except electromagnetic induction, the term ' force ' is reserved for mechanical action on ponderable matter and is measured in units called newtons.

These machines included very large hydraulic units for powering the servos that drove the ball screw mounted " A " and " B " drive carriages, a tall electronics cabinet loaded with hundreds of IBM control relays, many dozens of solenoids for controlling the various pneumatic mechanical subsystems, and an IBM 029 card reader for positioning instructions.

Electrically powered models utilise mechanical or electronic speed control units to adjust the amount of power delivered to the electric motor.

It will have more energy-efficient mechanical units, which incorporate the partial use of chilled beam passive cooling and radiant heat.

Electronic video cameras do not have mechanical shutters and allow setting shutter speed directly in time units.

# " Articulated Tug and Barge " ( ATB ) units also utilize mechanical means to connect to their barges.

mechanical transmission ( in multiple units )

Because they operate in the same basic way as mechanical / refrigerative dehumidifiers, window air conditioner units are sometimes used as makeshift dehumidifiers by sending their heat exhaust back into the room instead of outside the space.