In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that, in the event of a failure of the design feature, inherently responds in a way that will...

Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The...

A fail-safe describes a device which, if or when it fails, will cause a minimum of harm. Fail-safe may also refer to: Fail-Safe (novel), a 1962 novel...

Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Expanded from Wheeler's short story "Abraham '59" (originally published...

Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in...

system that is designed to fail safe, or fail-secure, or fail gracefully, whether it functions at a reduced level or fails completely, does so in a way...

is often "inherently fail-safe". That is, change the system design so its failure modes are not catastrophic. Inherent fail-safes are common in medical...

Fail-safes in nanotechnology are devices or features integrated with nanotechnology which, in the event of failure, respond in a way that will cause no...

devices can be either "fail safe" or "fail secure". A fail-secure locking device remains locked when power is lost. Fail-safe locking devices are unlocked...

Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes is a personal finance book written by American investment analyst and politician Harry...

[citation needed] Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later best-seller, Fail-Safe, so closely resembled Red Alert in its premise that George sued on the...

Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick learned that Fail Safe, a film with a similar theme, was being produced. Although Fail Safe was to be an ultrarealistic thriller...

to those provided by GCC and Microsoft Visual Studio. Fail-Safe C is an open-source memory-safe ANSI C compiler that performs bounds checking based on...

is no one to trigger such retaliation. The term fail-deadly was coined as a contrast to fail-safe. Fail-deadly operation is an example of second-strike...

two contestants among them by mutual decision. ^ The Undercover Agent is safe from elimination until his/her identity gets discovered. He/she can give...

one of the green lights in signal 22 fails, the indication becomes the lower speed signal 21 – this is fail-safe. Other nearby countries reverse the role...

assistants had been buried alive ended badly when the signalling systems failed. Luckily, the breathing tube had activated and the assistant was disinterred...

culture, i.e. "Fail fast, fail often." Crash-only software Design by contract Failing badly vs. failing well Fail-safe Fail-stop Fail-silent system Khanna...

Men (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Fail Safe (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Patton (1970) and The Verdict...

major damage, destruction or death Error – Incorrect or inaccurate action Fail-safe – Design feature or practice Failure analysis – Process of collecting...

of Jeannie. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry and Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances...

spans over 2 or more episodes. Sky One aired "Fail Safe" before "Summit" and "Last Stand", although "Fail Safe" follows the two-parter plotwise. Showtime...

The West Wing and The John Larroquette Show. In 2000, he appeared in Fail Safe, which aired live on television. Between 2002 and 2004, he portrayed General...

(1962), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1964), Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express...

Presley vehicle King Creole (1958), Stanley Donen's romance Charade (1963), Fail Safe (1964), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), Elaine May's screwball...

which a component failed "functionally" on the component level. Often a part has only a few failure modes. For example, a relay may fail to open or close...

and no "fail-safe" provisions were needed.: 162–165  For this design component to be approved ("certified") by the FAA without any fail-safe provision...

Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), Brigadier General Warren A. Black in Fail Safe (1964), Marshal Ney in Waterloo (1970), Conal Cochran in Halloween III:...

explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. A safety shutoff valve should be fail-safe, that is close upon failure of any element of the input control system...

which the system is connected. The Fail-Safe Theorem: when a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe. The Vector Theory of Systems: systems...