Lonnie Johnson

In 1968 when I was in high school I built a four-foot-tall remote control robot with pneumatic cylinders that operated his hands. My robot won first place at a science competition at the University of Alabama where my high school was the only African-American school represented. That was a huge moral victory.

American Inventor

Gail Collins

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

American Journalist

James Gleick

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

American Author

W. Edwards Deming

Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

American Scientist

Used often in technical contexts, especially when describing machinery in various industries.

Industry Specific

While typically related to air, 'pneumatic' can also refer to systems using other gases.

Not Just Air

Highlights the way a device is powered - by air pressure, not electricity or manual effort.

Power Source

Conveys that pneumatic tools make jobs easier by providing extra force or speed.

Mechanical Advantage

Requires regular checks and adjustments to maintain air pressure at the right level.

Air Maintenance

Often associated with items like tires, mattresses, and seating for comfort or performance.

Common Uses

 and that allow you not only to touch them but also back-drive them as well. But we've also looked at other ways to create more complex shape change. So we've used pneumatic actuation to create a morphing device where you can go from something that looks a lot like a phone to a wristband on the go.

Shape-shifting tech will...

 makes one of these incredible sounds that sounds nothing at all like a bird in fact the sound that this species makes sounds very much like a man-made sound and is completely out of place in the forest let's take a listen it sounds like a jackhammer or a pneumatic gun or

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 each one which has its own capability to sense temperature and pressure. It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on, so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches. They take the load off, and it becomes, again, compliant.

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 a Scottish inventor redeveloped the pneumatic tire, creating a massive international market for rubber. The Congo had one of the world’s largest supplies. Leopold seized the opportunity, requiring villages to meet ever-greater rubber quotas.

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 to a risky new device an open bottom blocks of wood and iron called a caisson pneumatic caissons are basically large boxes that are placed upside down so that what would normally be the bottom of the boxes up at the top and the open

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 start soldering start looking at hydraulic systems and pneumatic systems and getting your hands dirty very cool and you know there's some nama civil yong-nam us from India sent us a question in advance about your your work

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 Just as a train is about to go, a young couple rush in and they're just about to close the pneumatic doors. And that voice, without losing a beat, says, 'Because of late entry, we're delayed 30 seconds.'

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 So now you know. But do our researchers know? Yes, they do. The jumper has cleverly demonstrated a basic pneumatic system.

The Secret of Compressed...

 she uses a grain of gravel like a pneumatic Ram by breaking it by buzzing her wing muscles one of the few

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 she uses a grain of gravel like a pneumatic Ram by breaking it by buzzing

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