The autochrome achieved its color through a single glass plate smeared with millions of grains of potato starch, which were dyed red, green or violet and thus acted as tiny color filters.
That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
You may hand over a few more euros for a single glass of the good stuff, but with dinner and a bella figura floorshow thrown in, aperitivo is not only a not-to-be missed Italian tradition, it is an absolute bargain.
Similarly in 1992 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) put forward the idea of launching 55, 000 "solar sails" into orbit around the Earth, each with an area of 100 square kilometers, the sails collectively producing the same effect as Early's single glass panel.
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The device, which had two different sized arms, also sported a single rectangle of glass in front of the right eye.
The Flat and lustrous, this single pane of glass is totally obstruction-free.
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He announces the shipment of a 65-inch LC-TV model, alongside plans to open a second Kameyama factory capable of producing 8 45-inch screens out of a single piece of glass.
Sheets of glass separated by a vacuum could bring windows' insulating properties up to par with insulated walls, yet allow them to be nearly as thin as single panes of glass.
Kindle Fire HD solves this air gap problem by laminating the touch sensor and the LCD together into a single layer of glass, creating a display that's easy to view even in overhead light, and reducing glare by 25% relative to iPad 3.
At the bar, set in the middle of this garden, I sit one night sipping a glass of Hakushu single malt.
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In the fourth quarter, the company sees glass volumes down low single digits, with price declines slightly higher than in the last two quarters.
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Today, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology announced that its engineers have successfully created "single crystalline Gallium Nitride on amorphous glass substrates" -- an achievement that would allow the manufacturer to produce jumbo-sized LEDs from normal glass, including window panes.
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They persuaded their frogs to expose a single toe and then slowly moved the glass surface on which this toe was standing.
Boyden and Forest, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, developed a robotic system to record activity of a single neuron in the living brain using a tiny glass tube.
He spends about a month creating a single orb, which involves cutting and layering sheets of glass with graduating and diminishing circumferences, then honing the shape with a chisel.
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His lifetime consumption of tobacco is a single puff on a cigarette, his only alcohol intake a glass of champagne once a year.
In Corning's wholly owned display business and Samsung Corning Precision, total glass volume is expected to be consistent to down low-single digit percentage sequentially, depending on the level of normal seasonal inventory correction expected from panel manufacturers.
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In-cell display tech eliminates that middle layer of glass, combining the LCD and touch sections of the display into a single layer.
Flaws sees Q1 glass volumes up year over year, but don in the mid-single digits sequentially, in line with previous Q1 declines.
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Asked for an example of how Glass would be used, he said he wanted a viewfinder for his single lens reflex camera.
As part of the celebration, one could have a picture taken with the former and current mayors (after you relinquished your wine glass, which I was reluctant to do, because it contained some excellent single malt I'd brought along in a flask, fearing, correctly, that Gracie Mansion, where the events was held, would be serving only wine).
The British cars were disqualified because they used non-dipping single filament quartz iodine bulbs in their headlamps, in place of the standard double filament dipping glass bulbs, which are fitted to the series production version of each model sold to the public.
The Goldman analyst sees LCD glass volumes down 10%-15% sequentially in the first quarter, worse than the single digit decline the Street is expecting.
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Some married women are afraid of being accused of "breaking up the family" and are expected to put up and maintain their silence, while single women I know are worried of being seen as "weak" as they strive to break through the glass ceiling in their male-dominated professions.
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