Rolls-Royce will provide marine versions of its huge Trent aero engines to drive the water jets that will propel FastShip's vessels.
The underground storage areas are created by removing salt in the rock strata with equipment similar to high pressure water jets.
The Shannon class is the RNLI's most advanced lifeboat and runs on water jets instead of propellers, making it more manoeuvrable in the water.
But what we really care about here are the IPX5 and IPX7 waterproof ratings, meaning this 7.9mm-thick Android's been tested against small water jets and one-meter immersion, respectively.
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Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service teams wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze inside the building, while crews tackled the fire from the outside using large main water jets.
Mr Critchell said water jets were used at the four corners of the building and firefighters had made an effort to salvage as many of the artefacts as possible.
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Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.
Japan's ANA, for instance, is outfitting its new 787 fleet with gender-segregated bathrooms that have windows and bidet-toilets ("Washlets") that offer warm, pressurized water jets for a fresher clean than one-ply paper.
S. in civil engineering from the University of Utah and a masters in design from Stanford, owns more than 50 patents on water control, lighting and air-compression devices, as well as laminar stream technology, which turns water jets into shapes that appear solid and motionless.
TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.
Water will not penetrate the camera even when directly sprayed with jets of water from every direction corresponding to Protection Class 6 (IPX6).
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It scrapes away (rather than evaporates) water using two jets of HEPA-filtered air that reach top speeds of 430 mph and are powered by a proprietary motor that accelerates from a dead stop to 95, 000 rpm in 0.7 second flat.
Clams also soften the sediment by expelling jets of water from between the valves of their shells.
Since its outbreak on Friday, firefighters had used hose reel jets and water shuttled by appliances to the scene to get the blaze under control.
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They are certified to MIL-STD 810G for extremes in temperature, vibration, shock and four-foot drops and have an IP65 rating for ingress protection, which means they are fully protected against dust and can withstand low pressure jets of water from all directions.
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Sensors near Trent's cameras will show how hot the conditions are near multi-celled life forms to make sure they are found in extremely hot rather than jets of cooler water.
In addition to the Mirage Volcano and the Treasure Island lagoon, there are the Venetian Hotel's canals and the Bellagio Hotel and Casino's fountains, with jets that shoot water skyward, choreographed like showgirls to music.
The clarity of the images was astonishing - laying bare everything from the spindly grey-brown chimneys, rising at crooked angles, to the violent pitch-black jets of superheated water to the ghostly swarms of blind shrimp.
The whaling ship blasted its horns and turned on its water cannons, which sent powerful jets overboard.
The performance of a fountain -- as long as clients service those 500 jets that are supposed to shoot water 100 feet into the air -- is guaranteed for at least 40 years.
This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.
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