Articles about machinery

The Toy - 12-1-2003

WHEEL COOL When does a wheelbarrow become a toy? When it’s equipped with a flat-free tire, roll bumper to protect soft surfaces during dumping, and — get this — a disc brake operated via a handle-mounted lever. In fact, the JEEP WHEELB...

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...aside, this Jeep is a serious piece of hauling machinery. The six-cubic-foot tub is hewn from 1.4mm...

Whatever Happened To Biosphere 2 - 7-15-2008

BIOSPHERE 2. CARS TO SHARE WITH OTHERS. EVEN AN ECO-FRIENDLY VODKA! WE EXPLORE A FEW OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR GREENING UP THE WORLD ONE BUILDING, RIDE, AND DRINK AT A TIME.

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...all the electrical, mechanical, and plumbing machinery is housed. For tour times and additional...

page 5 - 1-15-2003

Development Business in Paradise Caribbean efforts to diversify mean vacation heaven could also be nirvana for your company.

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...and tax deductions for investment in buildings, machinery, and equipment. At the same time, the island''s...

page 2 - 2-1-2005

First comes love, then comes marriage then comes incorporation, payroll, and staff meetings.

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...the farm; the rest they bottle themselves with machinery they recently installed. They even sell some on...

page 2 - 5-15-2006

Underground living quarters. The world’s longest fence. And the moniker of Opal Capital of the World. This is Coober Pedy. ON HANDS AND KNEES, I shift the crumbled earth in all directions, searching for a glimmer of hope amid the...

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...sink the money back into bigger and better machinery and then never find opal again (anyone who''s...

page 2 - 1-1-2007

I Got Yer "Busy" Right Here! I HAD PLANNED TO wish you a happy new year, but I am just too busy. And that worries me not that I am too busy but that I say I am too busy. Everybody these days says they're too busy. Have you notic...

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...tomorrow." Polite mendacity lubricates the machinery of human interaction. Without it, we are no...

The Greening of the Santa Monica Pier - 7-15-2009

THE SANTA MONICA PIER’S Ferris wheel has held reign as the world’s only solar-powered wheel for the last decade -- but last year the California amusement got even more energy efficient when it was replaced with the nine-story $1.5 million Pacific Wheel, which lifts riders more than 130 feet above the Pacific Ocean, lights up the sky with 160,000 energy-efficient LED lights, and generates more than 71,000 kilowatt hours of renewable photovoltaic power from sunlight.

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...repainted, and restored back in 1980, while its machinery was replaced in 2006. You can just go to...

page 2 - 6-15-2009

There is a trio of new and recently refurbished golf courses in St. Andrews, Scotland, just begging for your attention.

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...looks as if it juts into the bay. Though modern machinery went into its making, the course feels timeless,...

page 1 - 8-15-2009

Looking to burn rubber (and possibly a battery)? Do you feel the need for (relatively moderate) speed? At the 24 Hours of LeMons, all you need in order to race is a cheap car and a sense of humor.

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...race -- takes one look at this affront to sleek machinery and then scrunches up his face like he’s just...