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A device based on a 100-PW laser could be at least 10 times shorter and cheaper than the roughly $10 billion machine now envisaged, says Stuart Mangles, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2018

Bouncer ended up moving to the country with the Mangles, but not before he fathered a litter of puppies in Anson's Corner.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2015

Who knows?—on the analogy of "Squiggles" she might come to call him "Mangles!"

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"The end of life as decreed by Mangles and his creatures is to go whacking round and round for ever," said the Cat.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

A Fuller, for scouring old coats and redressing them; A Taylor to fashion; and Mangles for pressing them.

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various