1.   A firm in Maidenhead designed an hydraulically operated bar stool with a large base housing a compressed air tank.

2.   The firm designs and sells magnetic and optical sensors for use on factory production lines.

3.   This firm has been designing precision assembly robots to make integrated circuits for the past Decade.

4.   And the firm designed the master plan for a brand new campus for the State University of New York at Buffalo.

5.   At first, the firm designed sophisticated tax strategies for Hollywood stars like Kirk Douglas, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Clint Eastwood.

6.   A New York firm has designed an ice cream pushcart cooled by solar power.

7.   After getting a green light from Pertamina State Oil Co. and another contractor, the two firms designed the refinery and bought all the parts for it.

8.   But the quality of information depends on how well a firm designs and maintains its Web site.

9.   Engineer Carl Clause, whose Dallas firm designs baggage handling systems, knows a bit about managing flow.

10.   He hired the architect Horace Trumbauer, whose firm also designed Ardrossen, the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Widener Library at Harvard.