It had a movable mechanical arm with a slender proboscis-like pipette at the tip.
Now Mandel does most of his imaging right in his observatory, a simple room with a movable roof he designed and had built in 1990.
Recognising that global warming will make any line based on the watershed of a glacier temporary, the understanding with Austria has for the first time introduced the concept of a movable border.
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The lane would be reversible, with a movable barrier like the one in use on the Tappan Zee Bridge, Mr. Ferrara said, so that it could handle inbound traffic in the morning rush and outbound traffic in the afternoon.
If you mine the newspaper archives for last year, or the year before (well, not exactly, you need for Chinese New Year, which being based on a lunar calendar is a movable feast) you will see many a story about how factories were desperately short of the labour they needed in the big Chinese manufacturing towns.
There have been flops like My Little Composer, a podium with movable notes that let kids compose their own music.
For the most part, the last disruptive change in the book industry was back in the 1400s, when Johannes Gutenberg printed a bible with movable type.
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When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable text.
Movable is a wrist-worn activity band to monitor exercise, but it includes an app that lets you set challenges for your family or group.
In the how-strangely-familiar vein was a game that featured movable pieces shaped like the standard ones used in myriad board games of today, i.e.
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One proposal: a set of giant movable gates to be built on the land separating Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf that when closed could block tidal surges, and when open, improve water flow.
The car storage system itself consists of a 5 meter long movable plate that sits between the front and rear wheels, and is short enough to cater for low, roadster type cars.
The gallery basement is a black-box space filled with movable walls, where the architecture is meant to be invisible.
Six Apart was founded by husband and wife team Ben and Mena Trott, who developed the Movable Type weblogging software as a hobby.
When used on a desk, table, or airplane seat tray, with the kickstand holding the screen upright and the keyboard cover with movable keys, the Pro is a serviceable laptop, especially since, unlike on an iPad or Android tablet, you can use full-fledged PC programs.
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Users are provided with hosting for their site and a Web-based interface where they can enter their posts. (Disclosure: Forbes.com uses the TypePad service to power its blogs, including one by the author of this story.) Six Apart also operates LiveJournal, a popular free blogging service, and sells Movable Type, blogging software which companies and individuals can install on their own Web servers.
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Nobody bats 1, 000, of course--not even the master, and many of the things Verne predicted have failed to appear, such as the movable 10-square-mile island built by a group of millionaires in Propeller Island (1895): Home to a large city, it moved around the Pacific Ocean on electric power.
The system, called Sentinel, includes elements resembling Web browsers, with tabs and movable windows, and forms that are filled out in a question-and-answer format similar to consumer tax software.
The invention of movable type, an innovation of colossal impact, led to a proliferation of books and the dissemination of knowledge.
Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.
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Any team operating within the budget will be allowed to use movable front and rear wings and, crucially, an engine not subject to a rev limit.
Alternative solutions include movable facilities that remove explosives from their casings, cut them into small pieces and burn them in a furnace.
China, a country with over 4500 years of recorded history, gave the world, gunpowder, paper, compasses, movable type, and even the seismological detector.
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When the Internet was young, before Blogger, WordPress, and Movable Type enabled the public to easily publish volumes of information to the world, sites like GeoCities provided a free home.
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Again according to the draft, a person would be considered the owner of real estate if his ownership was registered with the government, or of movable property if he was in possession of it.
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