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  • Last week, vacuum-pump maker Edwards Group said it wouldn't proceed with its IPO because of market uncertainty.

    Russia's Euroset Postpones IPO Margot Patrick 2011

  • The one I think will be cool is the Remote Control Wallcrawler Spider-Man that uses vacuum-pump technology to let the wall crawler climb the walls.

    Toy Fair 2008: Hasbro Announces Toy Line Featuring Spider-Man | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • On Wednesday, Alcatel said it will sell its vacuum-pump business to German firm Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG for € 200 million.

    Alcatel-Lucent Returns to Profit Ruth Bender 2010

  • This fall, Spider-Man will scale bedroom and family room walls everywhere with the REMOTE CONTROL WALLCRAWLER, a remote controlled toy Spider-Man with amazing motorized vacuum-pump technology that allows Spidey to literally crawl up and down walls!

    Toy Fair 2008: Hasbro Announces Toy Line Featuring Spider-Man | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • The remote-controlled Spider-Man toy, which incorporates vacuum-pump technology, actually crawls ups and down walls.

    Figure Hot | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Resealing the bottle with a vacuum-pump cork can help.

    Ask Tip Sheet 2007

  • On the Thursday after Caspar Harvey's lunch I mentioned the sick filly to my grandmother and found her one step ahead of the facts; no real surprise, she read newspapers at vacuum-pump speed and from her own long experience at writing them, understood all the inferences they left out.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • The balance had to be drawn off with a little vacuum-pump; and Thyrsis would watch the tiny jets as they sprayed upon the glass bulb.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • On this same floor is the vacuum-pump room with a glass-blowers 'room adjoining, both of them historic by reason of the strenuous work done on incandescent lamps and X-ray tubes within their walls.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • On this same floor is the vacuum-pump room with a glass-blowers 'room adjoining, both of them historic by reason of the strenuous work done on incandescent lamps and X-ray tubes within their walls.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

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