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Book-scanning robots digitize delicate texts

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The Bavarian State Library employs two machines called ScanRobots that digitize all of the books in the library. The project will scan around 7.5 million pages and is expected to be finished by 2009.

Author: Dumiak, Michael
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2008
Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing, Optical instruments and lenses, Libraries, Libraries and Archives, Public Libraries, Optical Scanners, Usage, Design and construction, Technology application, Scanning devices, Robots, Robot, Digitization

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New tech, old fuel

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This article discusses the oil shale present in Estonia which is supplying 90 percent of the electricity to the state.

Author: Dumiak, Michael
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2007
Government domestic functions, Electric Power Generating, Electric Power Generation, Electric services, Estonia, Natural resources, Electric power production, Oil-shales, Oil shales, Natural resource policy

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Cells on ice

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Development of cell archive which can preserve frozen cell specimen for decades by Germen researchers is discussed.

Author: Dumiak, Michael
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2006
Cells (Biology), Cells, Storage

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