In
childhood many of us may have at some time dreamed of having an Aladdin's lamp that would give us a happy existence, full of all sorts of wonderful things.
Martin Luther
, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, was the eldest son of a miner who subsequently owned several foundries and was thus able to send his son to the University of Erfurt to prepare for the law.
A Shock
absorber not only absorbs the shock, but it absorbs the rebound from the shock so that the energy of sudden impulses, the violent reactions in machinery or structures, are eliminated almost instantly.