Among other exciting developments is a FF2 million (£250,000) contract to build, out of composite materials, a human centrifuge.

Prof Brian Cox simulates the strength of gravity on other planets through a human centrifuge in Holland.

Human centrifuges are exceptionally large centrifuges that test the reactions and tolerance of pilots and astronauts to acceleration above those experienced in the Earth's gravity.

The second significant experimental facility constructed was the first human centrifuge in the allied countries, pioneered by Dr. Wilbur R. Franks and his colleagues.

The US Air Force at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas, operates a human centrifuge.

PART of a giant human centrifuge to train fighter pilots is pictured about to leave the Courtaulds Aerospace Advanced Materials site in France.

The US Air Force at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico operates a human centrifuge.

At all stages of training, astronauts undergo physical conditioning, including time in a human centrifuge located at the ACC, and a program of microgravity flights, carried out in Russia.

I can't show you our work, of course, but they've got some interesting equipment here that isn't too highly classified, like the human centrifuge and the rotating room in which they study problems of equilibrium. . . . Well, it was just a suggestion.

Outstanding features will be the human centrifuge in the center of :envihab as well as areas where the amount of oxygen can be reduced and an area where pressure can be used to simulate altitudes of up to 5,500 meters.

Tethering members at the University of Buffalo swim team to what Professor Pendergast called a human centrifuge, the researchers tested 20 different swimsuit designs by propelling swimmers around a special doughnut-shaped pool at the University of Buffalo.

The IAM obtained a decompression chamber (moved from the Physiological Laboratory) in 1945, and this was supplemented by a climatic chamber in 1952, and human centrifuge in 1955 (the latter facility is still in operation and was designated a Grade 2 Listed Building in August 2007).