Smelting, metal products and machine-making fell, as a share of industrial output, from 20% in 1991 to 15% in 1996.
"The archaic system of an X-ray machine and metal detector cannot pick up other potential threats posed by passengers, " Baum says.
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"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.
Mr. Ratner explained that in 2005 Google had a small machine shop, metal tools, a wood workshop, and a welding workshop.
"It's like a big, metal, claw-y machine in 'Transformers, '" she said, to much laughter, during a lunchtime gathering at Google's Manhattan offices.
Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
One day in metal shop Packard caught his fingers in a milling machine while trying to add coolant oil from a handheld spout.
The display doesn't wobble when you set the machine down, and is anchored by two tasteful metal hinges.
But one PlayStation-only game released in June, Metal Gear Solid 4, has been driving sales of the machine.
Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of an 8-foot-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.
Ultimately, too, both deserve to be handled with kid gloves: whichever machine you choose, you'll find the smooth metal finish is quite vulnerable to scratches and greasy fingerprint smudges.
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Abdulmutallab then passed through a walk-through metal detector and put his shoulder bag through an X-ray screening machine, Demuren said.
The machine is made of magnesium through and through, with pressed metal on the lid and a die-cast variety on the bottom.
Demuren said the suspect underwent regular screening -- walking through a metal detector and having his shoulder bag scanned through an X-ray machine.
Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.
Since metal detectors are designed to distinguish gold from iron junk, he dug whenever the machine told him he was passing over rubbish.
Nano bar codes are the molecular versions of traditional bar codes--metal nano-particles that have specific, recognizable chemical fingerprints that can be read by a machine, perhaps a UV lamp or optical microscope.
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