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Making air do work instead of just sitting there looking useless.
means The branch of physics and engineering concerned with how gases, especially compressed air, can be used to move things and transmit force.
from From Greek *pneumatikos*, 'of wind or breath,' rooted in *pneuma*, 'breath, spirit, air in motion' — the same root that gives us 'pneumonia.' The Greeks tied breath to the animating force of life itself, so a word for 'moving air' already carried a whiff of the soul before engineers borrowed it for air brakes and nail guns.
- origin
- from greek pneuma, meaning breath or spirit
- key trick
- compressed air stores energy like a coiled spring
- everyday use
- powers dentist drills, brakes, and nail guns
- tradeoff
- compressible air means less precision than hydraulics