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The company Mario Carnagh was founded in 1929 and boasts of a presence on the market of machine-tools, both in Italy and abroad, from more than 80 years. Characterized by the first Mario Carnaghi.
Nowadays it is a big Company in the Milling World and the third generation Mario Carnaghi is the CEO.
As there exists high power demand in several remote areas and even to the industrial areas, my idea is to develop regional power plants especially solar power plants; i.e to construct solar plants in every region, so that we can directly give the power to required homes, industries etc..
The UroCycler Automatic Bladder Management System serves indwelling catheterized patients as a magnetic prosthetic sphincter system which allows their bladder to function in a normal cyclic manner. This is important because, without the UroCycler, more than 99,000 American children and adults die each year from fatal catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) .
The main objective of this project is to determine the characteristics of accidents involving vehicle submersion and to overcome these characters to save the human life.
This can be made possible by designing a vehicle along with a hull beneath it, in such a way, that it overcomes the upright buoyancy force and prevents the vehicle from submersion.
The Exam Table Paper Shredder is an idea for physician's offices. This idea is simply to feed exam table paper into a shredder that has a cord with a button that can be stepped on to activate the process of shredding the soiled table paper. This process would be fast and efficient,
NOW THE UMBRELLA IS COMPLETE ...Every home or car has a regular umbrella. Why not have the Two-N-One UmbrellaSlicker?
*Do your clothes ever get wet from the rain?
*Have you ever left an outdoors sporting event because it started to rain?
*Have you ever walked with a regular umbrella which dripped water down your back?
A Portable Emergency Ventilator (PEV) is a device that provides ventilation to a person who is incapable of breathing on his or her own. The device’s ability to provide air to a patient’s lungs could potentially save a patient’s life in an emergency situation if the device is working properly. However,
This is a new method of manufacturing thin multi-crystalline Silicon photovoltaic cells.
The method involves a centrifuge that is able to run efficiently at the melting point of silicon. The size of the centrifuge is about 12" in diameter and approximately 15" in length. It spins at fairly low speeds on a horizontal axis.
Mass Trapping of invasive destructive insects, compost them into fertilizer and feed them to the plants they intended to destroy without the use of pesticides.
Global warming, international trade and natural processes have dramatically influenced the proliferation and destructive influence of specific species of insects. Forestry,
KneeStim intelligently uses neuromuscular electrical stimulation to contract quadriceps muscles in synchrony with patient movement, turning each joint loading instance into a muscle building repetition. This device is intended to provide improved, accelerated, cost-effective rehabilitation assistance to patients managing knee osteoarthritis or recovering from knee replacement surgery.
Quadriceps strength, or lack thereof,
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