For 141 years, physicists have pondered a deceptively difficult question—what would happen if a sprinkler worked in reverse? Two camps formed—one arguing that a water-sucking sprinkler would have to spin clockwise, and another camp pushing for an counter-clockwise motion. Scientists from New York University took care of the problem by designing just such a device, […]
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Florida college student tampers with sprinkler system, breaks into pump room through vent: police
FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Florida Gulf Coast University student was nabbed after he allegedly tampered with a building’s sprinkler system and broke into a pump room by crawling through a vent, university police said. Nathan Eggleston, 28, was arrested and charged with damaging property, burglary of an unoccupied structure and interfering with firefighter equipment […]