Called "tian-tsui" (traditional:, simplified:, pinyin: dincu, dotting with kingfishers), kingfisher feathers are painstakingly cut and glued onto gilt silver.
Domestic electrification simplified the operation of percolators by providing for a self-contained, electrically powered heating element that removed the need to use a stovetop burner.
Serial access requires far fewer electrical connections for the memory chips than does parallel access, which has simplified the manufacture of multi-gigabyte drives.
