cylinder

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She is attached to an oxygen cylinder at all times, waiting for a double lung transplant.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Inventor Louis Glass and engineer William S. Arnold created the original coin-in-the-slot phonograph in 1889: It played one song on a metal disk or cylinder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Few breakfasts and refreshment breaks didn’t include someone squeezing a cylinder of icy concentrate into a pitcher, adding water and stirring until it became a drinkable delight.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

First, though the idea of using a cylinder and piston went back to Guericke, there was no recent experience of combining this with steam in England.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton