Pneumatic motor from the expansion of the gas. These days, using the patent pending 'K'Air Generator', converted to work as a compressed-gas motor, the project should be launched in 2010, thanks to a North American group of investors, but for the purpose of developing first a green energy power system. In the original Nègre air engine, one piston compresses air from the atmosphere to mix with the stored compressed air (which will cool drastically as it expands). This mixture drives the second piston, providing the actual engine power. MDI's engine works with constant torque, and the only way to change the torque
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction free", for lacking the "aura" of the original work of art. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935, "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit"), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes that the "aura" of a work of art is devalued by mechanical reproduction. The subject and themes of the essay have much influenced the fields of art history and architectural theory, and of cultural studies and media theory. During the Nazi régime (1933–1945) in Germany, Benjamin wrote the essay to