The closest modern parallel to their work lies in control engineering and pneumatic instrumentation.

We also have been working with some scientists and engineers from UPenn to come up with a chemically actuated version of this amoeba robot.

It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on, so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.

On application of pressure to the external ear canal with the help of a pneumatic ear speculum the mass could be seen to blanch.

External links A term paper on the subject published by Brett M. Durham A U.S. government paper Pneumatic Barrier and Beach Pollution an ASCE paper

Using a pneumatic trough, he would mix nitrous air with a test sample, over water or mercury, and measure the decrease in volume the principle of eudiometry.

To determine basic categories of fuzes and adopt Best Practices on fuze mechanisms so as to increase the discriminatory capacity of MOTAPM to the greatest extent and to prevent them from being actuated by the presence, proximity or contact of a person.

The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack up barges, heavy lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.