Also new is an advanced canopy system for positive guiding; loop control and positioning for transfer from the thermoformer to the trim-press feed system; an updated servo ejector system for increased rigidity and higher performance; updated drive system for positive drive and reduced flex; and an updated
treadle lift for smoother lift with the moving platen in any position.
Students will carve, whittle spindles, steam bend an oak bow, wedge joints, and turn on a 200-year-old foot
treadle lathe.
I'm on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university student - this year, it's Jordan Schermerhorn of Rice University - and we have seen fields here being irrigated for the first time, powered by foot pedal
treadle pumps (resembling elliptical machines from an American gym).
As this report has already mentioned,
treadle pumps have been particularly successful.
* The collaborative designed a
treadle pump that can be used to pump fresh ground water in semiarid areas such as Tanzania.
In Untitled (Theater), a sewing-machine
treadle that might represent the infernal machinery of the underworld is connected to an upside-down eggbeater set up above a horizontal plane like a totem for some unknown civilization; the eggbeater towers over the tiny metal figure sitting near it, suggesting humanity's smallness and impotence in the face of the mechanical structure of destiny.
Even before Gompertz, back in Germany in 1817, Johann Cad Siegismund Bauer had designed (but probably never built) a
treadle mechanism to drive the rear wheel of a draisine.
"I used to use my gran's sewing machine, which still had a
treadle.
Much of the filming takes place with the camera as a companion to the artist, positioned at eye level directly across from her at her dining room table, or standing beside her while she makes work at her
treadle wheel.
You won't see a
treadle (I learned on one) machine anywhere unless the owner has an antique on display.
Among the innovations Polak has championed: a $25 foot-operated "
treadle" pump designed to irrigate small plots of land and drip-irrigation systems that costs as little as $3.
We told how the invention creates energy by using a
treadle device, which is located under the desk, to power the computer it is connected to above.
Here, let me do it!" Women of my age have in their lifetime acquired a wide range of skills that they no longer need, from operating a
treadle sewing machine to skinning rabbits and darning socks.
