It looks like a hair dryer from Mars.

Industrial designer Brooks Stevens developed the first electric dryer with a glass window in the 1940s.

Throughout its long history, centrifugal forces have often pushed the country into disarray and disintegration.

Increased migration is, indeed, a daily fact in our centrifugal and global modernity, but it isn t only a negative one.

Steam turbines can also be used directly to drive large centrifugal pumps, such as feedwater pumps at a thermal power plant.

However, instead of exhausting this air, the dryer uses a heat exchanger to cool the air and condense the water vapor into either a drain pipe or a collection tank.

Particles that experience a force, either due to gravity or due to centrifugal motion will tend to move in a uniform manner in the direction exerted by that force.

So they ended up an Iron Age European society, virtually unable to make their own iron. A second item on my checklist is climate change. Climate can get warmer or colder or dryer or wetter.

That justification will not convince economists, who prefer a dryer sort of reasoning. But it is not out of place to remind ourselves that economists and bureaucrats need not always have things their own way.

In the United States, the U.S. Fire Administration in a 2007 report estimated that clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths, and 400 injuries annually, with 80 (12,700) of the fires in residential buildings.

Earth orbit A spacecraft enters orbit when it has enough horizontal velocity for its centripetal acceleration due to gravity to be less than or equal to the centrifugal acceleration due to the horizontal component of its velocity.

The best steam turbine at the time, invented by Gustaf de Laval, was an impulse design that subjected the mechanism to huge centrifugal forces and so had limited output due to the weakness of the materials available.

With such a battery, an average electric ray may electrocute larger prey with a current of up to 30 amperes and a voltage of 50 to 200 volts, a similar effect to dropping a mains powered hair dryer into a bathtub.

From the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia s violent self destruction, and Czechoslovakia s peaceful divorce to today s centrifugal pressures in Europe, the West, and the major emerging countries, fragmentation has been fundamental to international relations in recent decades.

These conflicts have taught Africa that, in order to contain the centrifugal pressures that encourage fragmentation within our relatively new states, a conscious effort must be made to nurture and entrench national unity, which must include democratic practices.

Historical precedents indicate that forcing disparate nations and states to unite under a single idea whether communism in the Soviet Union, socialism in Yugoslavia, or a shared currency in the eurozone generates centrifugal forces that can trigger the union s collapse.

For them, manufactured discontent in Ukraine s Russian speaking regions which have embraced a centrifugal tendency greater than in any other European democracy impels them toward the system of managed democracy found in Russia in order to protect their continued misrule.