There are other dimensions for flaps.

There's other ways of making flaps.

This base has a lot of flaps in it.

If I make the flaps skinnier, I can use a bit less paper.

What if I want to make something that has a lot of flaps?

They were using vacuum tubes, very narrow, sloppy techniques to get actually binary behavior out of these radio vacuum tubes.

And on one particular day, the campers were jumping through inner tubes, They were diving through inner tubes. And I thought this would be great fun.

Text Wind tunnel tests Narrator The wing has no steering controls, no flaps, no rudder.

They were shrinking vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller.

And I took out a centrifuge and dry ice and needles and tubes.

There were a dozen tubes coming in and out of my body.

The core comes up as these cylindrical tubes of limestone.

TS Yes, they're servos with cams that pinch these rubber tubes.

So you get 250 of these in the mail in little tubes.

Home cooking remained the norm, but its quality was down the tubes.

These are the distances of the tubes which make it walk that way.

So, there's 40 of these tubes, like a V 40 engine running the memory.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

Some mad scientist is going to jab your arm with a needle and take four tubes of blood.

So, the proportion of the tubes in this animal is very important for the walking.

So the valves at the bottom of those tubes there are like radio controlled airplane valves.

What's clever is the way the fly flaps it, which of course ultimately is controlled by the nervous system, and this is what enables flies to perform these remarkable aerial maneuvers.

And indeed, this is just one of the examples of the junk that flows across the tubes in these Internets here.

You're basically opening up the tubes that drain fluid from the middle ears, which have had them reliably full.

And that was the end of the shrinking of vacuum tubes, but it was not the end of the exponential growth of computing.

They actually used 6J6, the common radio tube, because they found they were more reliable than the more expensive tubes.

It's a joint of tubes. You start by teaching angles an acute angle, a right angle, an obtuse angle, a straight angle.

On the left you can see a lava tube forming at a recent eruption Mount Etna in Sicily and this is the way these tubes form.

And we sat down, we did the physics of eggbeaters and self aligning tubes and all the rest of that kind of thing, sent it off to a journal.

So my doctor got the ENT, the top guy at the clinic, to come down and give me surgery to move the tubes around my voice box.

In 1950s they were shrinking vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller. They finally hit a wall they couldn't shrink the vacuum tube any more and keep the vacuum.

Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move and even survive on their own.

The memory was in cathode ray tubes a whole bunch of spots on the face of the tube very, very sensitive to electromagnetic disturbances.

I had hoped my voice would be saved, but my doctors knew that the breathing tubes going down my throat might have already destroyed it.

What in the design that made the difference is the boarding tubes the boarding tube gives to the bus the same performance as a subway.

It is provided with its own powerhouse containing large diesel driven generators, air conditioning equipment, and cooling towers required to cool the thousands of vacuum tubes in the computer.

They took a DNA origami, organized some carbon nano tubes, made a little switch, you see here, wired it up, tested it and showed that it is indeed a switch.

About 20 percent of all the nation's programmers were wrapped up in this thing, and it led to an awful lot of what we have today. It also used vacuum tubes.

The Elvie Pump however, is completely silent, has no wires or tubes and fits discreetly inside a nursing bra, giving women the freedom to move, hold their babies, and even go out while pumping.

But the problem was that the gamma detectors were these huge, bulky tubes, and they were filled with these scintillating crystals, and you just couldn't get them close enough around the breast to find small tumors.

The company ECIMETAL had to redistribute the 4 million tubes it had ordered from this company among other suppliers, thereby losing a market that is near Cuba and had the potential to step up supplies.

I know Bill Joy was talking to you about the wonders of carbon nanotubes, so I'm going to talk to you about the wonders of carbon macro tubes, which is charcoal.

In late 2004, the Mexican company CCL Container S.A. de C.V. de México, from which Cuba had ordered lithographed aluminium tubes for packaging cigars, was bought by a United States company.

Those guys drinking all the tea with sugar in it were writing in their logbooks, trying to get this thing to work, with all these 2,600 vacuum tubes that failed half the time.