| 单词 | mechanical device |
| 例句 | He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He picks up the instrument and opens it to find an exquisite system of cogs and wheels turning inside, resulting in a mechanical device that is capable of telling time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s embarrassing to spend all your time with a seven-year-old girl, but Jimmy is always fiddling with his mechanical devices, so what am I supposed to do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a he; it’s an it. It’s a mechanical device, and, as such, has no name.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Leo spotted Piper’s knife, an old leather-bound book, a few interesting-looking mechanical devices, and enough gold to give Hazel’s horse a stomachache. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “A plumping mill is a mechanical device run by water power. It lifts a hammer and drops it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A series of mechanical devices moves the pin downward until it drops into the hands of a man in a chamber below who affixes it to his face. Mika Rottenberg: ‘Bowls Balls Souls Holes’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He observed people “making errors – sometimes serious ones – with mechanical devices… computer operating systems… even airplanes and nuclear power plants.” Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z His skills as a draftsman, especially in watercolor, obviated any assist from a mechanical device. ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ Review: An Unclear Creative Influence 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z He is curator of the Sanctuary’s museum and inventor of extraordinary mechanical devices, including a flying metal owl, which unfortunately calls to mind the annoying bird from Ray Harryhausen’s stop-action movie “Clash of the Titans.” Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But Friel's artistry turns what might be a mechanical device into something more complex by constantly shuffling the two roles. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z “The job of a good mechanical device is to help the puppeteer show life and character as intuitively as possible,” Mr. Dimbleby said. ‘Crow’ Features Birds by Handspring Puppet Company 2012-07-06T21:58:46Z But for gloves and woolens and luggage and certain kinds of mechanical devices, you want the homemade product. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z Even so, this is the kind of standard mechanical device that makes it hard to argue with people who insist that Broadway musicals, rife with push-button jukebox affairs and gaudy movie knockoffs, are largely insufferable. ‘Kinky Boots’ at Kennedy Center struts, kicks and empowers — just by the book 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In a variety of mediums and techniques, artists “are trying to expand outside the canvas,” Alemani said, in some cases with mechanical devices that interact with various forms of life. A Venice Biennale Informed by the Pandemic Will Spotlight Women 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z For many generations in the postindustrial age, puttering around with the mechanical devices that surrounded us was practically a rite of passage, and for many, a way of life. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z True to the title, there are a few hysterically funny moments as a couple of Victorian-era British doctors and an amateur inventor stumble into the creation of a mechanical device to pleasure women. Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O 2012-05-15T14:30:20Z There is a music box quality both to his overdetermined narrative structure and fondness for mechanical devices. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z When Rodriguez was transferred to UW Medical Center last December, Bellingham doctors had already added a balloon pump — a shorter-term mechanical device that helps pump blood — near her heart to support it. To save a young mom, Seattle transplant doctors had to become pioneers 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms Letby said she noticed Child A's "hands and feet were white" so she started to use a neopuff - a mechanical device specially designed for neonatal resuscitation. Lucy Letby says baby boy's death was unexpected shock 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z A lot of the mechanical devices, either drawn or used in the studio, are there because they make causality visible. Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Because no solid materials are stable at such high temperatures, mechanical devices cannot contain the plasma in which fusion reactions occur. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z The exponential distribution is often used to model the longevity of an electrical or a mechanical device. High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z The exponential distribution is often used to model the longevity of an electrical or mechanical device. Introductory Statistics 2013-09-19T00:00:00Z Strategies include adding mechanical devices such as rock bolts or ensuring that water can drain away. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If the damage is extensive, coronary replacement with a donor heart or coronary assist device, a sophisticated mechanical device that supplements the pumping activity of the heart, may be employed. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device. How Measuring Time Shaped History 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z "After all," he continued, "a trap is a mechanical device that has mechanical characteristics. What gets tricky is it's being used for a biological system, namely an animal." In a world that still traps animals, can science ever limit suffering? 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The invention: Jones created the “Howard H. Jones Collegiate Football Game,” a 1930s board game that featured a mechanical device that launched a tiny ball for punts, kickoffs and field goals. USC football coaches: Glory and gaffes, from Gloomy Gus to Lincoln Riley 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s the ability to create, in software and through electronic and mechanical devices, the human sense of sight, and then act on it. John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next? 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Although the connotation of the term “pump” suggests a mechanical device made of steel and plastic, the anatomical structure is a living, sophisticated muscle. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z For many decades in New York, for example, voting machines were simple, lever-operated mechanical devices. Opinion | Election Problems, and Solutions 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s work, a walk, yard work and tinkering with clocks and other mechanical devices that keep him going and keep him happy, his son Mark Wanner said. 90-year-old Mandan barber still clipping along 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The cost of repairing the mechanical device that raises banners will take a major bite out of the town’s budget, Hollaway said. Vandals tear down ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner in small Virginia town 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Foreign governments clamored for systems that seemed clearly superior to the old clunky mechanical devices, but in fact were easier for U.S. spies to read. ‘The intelligence coup of the century’: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z That might take decades, if not centuries, considering the complexity of a mechanical device with a thumb and four fingers. If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z McKellars says the implantation’s key contribution was to shine a spotlight on artificial heart research and raised public expectations that such technology would one day work, that better mechanical devices would be forthcoming. Texas: 50 years since first artificial heart implant surgery 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Prairie Heart Institute announced Monday the collaboration will improve services for those with advanced heart failure, heart transplants and mechanical devices to aid circulation. U of Chicago, central Illinois heart-care groups team up 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z And she examines real mechanical devices — flying doves, bellowing statues and gliding Buddhas — devised by virtuosic technicians from the Mediterranean to China. Loop quantum gravity redux, ancient automatons, and the weirdness of tropical flora: Books in brief 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The latter category included agricultural equipment, weaving kits, mechanical devices, books like “Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia,” and digital technologies and related theoretical texts, such as Norbert Wiener’s “Cybernetics” and the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, a programmable calculator. The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Asheville regulations prohibit vehicle parking on sidewalks and sales of mechanical devices on streets or sidewalks. Scooters directed off streets in 1 North Carolina city 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z It ignited a new enthusiasm for imagining mechanical devices and spare parts, she says. Texas: 50 years since first artificial heart implant surgery 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The team developed tools to work through the hundreds of permutations, including punched cards and a mechanical device with rotors that mimicked Enigma, which, for uncertain reasons, the team called a bomba. Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Cars are fast becoming not just mechanical devices but sophisticated four-wheeled computers. Why car makers must adapt - or die 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This level of fine motor control is why the stunted motions of a mechanical device are a caricature of the graceful fluid movements of any animal. Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The combined efforts of Harper doctors and G.M. engineers would produce a miraculous machine — a mechanical device that would temporarily replace Mr. Opitek’s heart. When Detroit Muscle Powered a Breakthrough in Heart Surgery 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z This story proves that so-called Modern Medicine is a dual-edged sword, given its slap-dash approval process for mechanical devices implanted increasingly to treat or replace failing body parts. Opinion | Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z "And to show people how well he was and that he could live a full and active life with a mechanical device implanted into his body." What's it like to live with a mechanical heart? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z For this reason, replacing the human heart with an off-the-shelf mechanical device is a great ambition of cardiologists and surgeons. Opinion | Happy Anniversary, Heart Transplant 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Underneath the sheet metal, new cars also usually have fewer mechanical devices and more electronic components than earlier models, a change that allows for advances simply by changing software. Would You Like My Car to Make You Some Water? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z This game, which is played in the pub gardens of Kent, involves batsmen or women hitting a rubber ball that is fired upwards from a mechanical device - the trap. The weird and wonderful world of pub games - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Flywheels capture rotational energy in a spinning mechanical device, which slows down and releases energy when power is needed. Alphabet turns to molten salt to store clean energy 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z “The joy was about sightseeing, and being on a mechanical device.” Breakfast in the sky offered on Wildwood Ferris wheel 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Shannon's brilliance also spilt over into inveterate tinkering and a lifelong fascination with mechanical devices. Information technology: A digital genius at play : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z When a player strikes a key, it sends an electric signal to a mechanical device tucked into a stone staircase hidden in the cave. How Mother Nature and a Pentagon Mathematician Created the World's Largest Instrument 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Indeed, it may not be about mechanical devices in any way. USGA, R&A send notice that use of ‘green-reading materials’ is next on rules radar - Golf Digest 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z White feels romantic about mechanical devices the way children sometimes feel romantic about robots. Jack White’s Infinite Imagination 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Marathon agreed to spend millions to shut down a flare — a mechanical device used to combust waste gases — and install systems that capture and recycle gases that otherwise would be sent to flares. Exhibit features pollution’s effects on Detroit neighborhood 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Happily, it is being preserved as a purely mechanical device, driven by a weight that is wound up every week and allowed to drop slowly. Restoring a Cross High Above Manhattan, Stone by Stone 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z It was unclear what kind of pocketknife Kyler found in his backpack, but school policy prohibits any knife with a blade three inches or longer, as well as pocketknives opened by a mechanical device. 7th-grader suspended after reporting pocketknife to school, mom says 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z That’s because it’s in love with love and friendship and the act of creation — both of mechanical devices and the self. ‘Microbe and Gasoline’: Michel Gondry at his simple, quirk-free best 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z So write about the moral deficiencies or errors of the political leadership who designate targets and means, but don’t waste time on mechanical devices. Drones save U.S. soldiers’ lives 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z But most gambling addicts play video poker, slot machines or other mechanical devices, Simeone said. Beating the odds 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The opening and closing of the valves that let air into the cylinder and exhaust gases out used to be regulated by a mechanical device operated by the engine’s camshaft. The incredible shrinking machine 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z And other electrodes embedded in a fitted cap can capture signals from the brain and direct them to a computer or mechanical device. How a Paralyzed Man Is Walking Again 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Erico, which is based in Solon, Ohio, manufactures electrical and fastening products for use in electrical and mechanical devices, including telecommunications, fire protection, and heating and air-conditioning equipment. Pentair Agrees to Buy Erico Global for $1.8 Billion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The rise of universities and improvements in technology — printing presses, clocks, mechanical devices — encouraged the reexamination of its tenets. Where human questioning led us 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Others don’t understand the reason that they are supposed to wear the “squeezy boots” or other mechanical devices that keep blood moving in our legs and feet. Preventing Blood Clots 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z But there will be contemporary touches such as prosthetics and mechanical devices. Colorado mining town site for upcoming movie 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Every day, several mechanical devices anticipate and attend to his every need. Broken Age: The Kickstarter success-story is finally complete and the worth the wait 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Jones said, “Any time a human being can survive an accident involving an airplane or any type of mechanical device is a good day.” Bloodied Harrison Ford asks, 'Where am I?' after plane crash in Venice 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z A mechanical device, the Hertzberg clock runs purely on kinetic energy like the rocking pendulum and dangling weight system of a grandfather clock. 19th century jewelers’ clock still ticking 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Hard drives—like propellors—are mechanical devices bound by mechanical limitations. NetAppVoice: Flash Costs Less Than Disk (Yes, Really!) 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Hard drives, like propellers, are mechanical devices bound by mechanical limitations. NetAppVoice: How To Make Your Business Faster, And At Lower Cost 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z More advanced installations are equipped with mechanical devices that track the sun across the sky so that the panel is always facing direct sunlight. Kake turns to solar power for energy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z “We’re just trying to see how we can create comfortable mechanical devices for the body,” he explains. Cyborgs From Sierra Leone: Polymath David Sengeh Brings Prosthetics To The People 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Abraham explained that unlike active solar heating systems, the passive solar models used design, angles, and materials to attract and store heat instead of any mechanical devices. NC high school students work with solar power 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z "Even the best mechanical devices, designed for the sole purpose of driving or putting balls, cannot produce completely consistent shots. And neither can the best players!" The Grit Factor: Bob Carney 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The concept is much broader than merely a mechanical device. Accumulated Capital of Centuries Going Up In Smoke 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “And then we decided just in case any of those were compromised, we would put a mechanical device on the phone that physically jams the microphones.” New Infrared iPhone 5 Case Lets You See Through Walls 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z A modern car isn’t the mechanical device many of today’s older drivers grew up with, said Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another participant in the driving forum. How safety advocates work to keep older motorists safe She became interested in science and math and became an assistant to Charles Babbage, who developed the first computer as a mechanical device. Lessons In Tech And Business: AMC's New Halt And Catch Fire 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z "We initially thought this might be a mechanical device," said Professor Weiming Li, a neurobiologist on the team that undertook the study. Bizarre 'vampires' heat up for sex 2013-06-27T08:48:20Z So the engineer came up with a mechanical device and a small chemical intercession. Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? [Excerpt] 2013-04-05T18:15:00.207Z The geometrical drawings were also extended to produce early versions of engineering drawings of mechanical devices such as projectiles, pulleys, aqueducts, gears, catapults, ramps, and various forms of hydrodynamical and land-based mechanical instruments. The Science and Art of the Diagrams: Culturing Physics and Mathematics, Part 1 2013-03-22T12:45:00.207Z In May, 2011, Obama became the first American president to use the autopen to sign legislation when he directed that the mechanical device be used to sign an extension of the Patriot Act. ‘Fiscal Cliff’ bill signed into law via autopen 2013-01-03T12:02:00Z In the class he learned about electrical circuitry, hydraulics, computerized control systems and how to provide maintenance to a variety of mechanical devices. Can Community Colleges Put Americans Back to Work? 2012-11-28T15:15:36Z A woman named Boilermaker, who can fix any mechanical device, is their super. City Room: In a New Spin, Spider-Man Relocates to Brooklyn 2012-09-30T15:00:29Z The mechanical device created a vortex, a swirl, spinning the water so the minerals wouldn’t cling to the pipes. Can Soil Replace Oil as a Source of Energy? [Excerpt] 2013-04-05T18:15:00.207Z In an emerging field called digital manufacturing, 3D printers enable the production of physical mechanical devices, medical implants, jewelry, and even clothing. Why I believe that this will be the most innovative decade in history 2012-06-25T11:00:12Z Drives are mechanical devices with motors and moving parts: flash operates with electrical signals. 6 Reasons Solid State Memory Is The Biggest Story In Computing 2012-06-14T21:01:10Z At the moment, people with severe heart failure have to rely on mechanical devices or hope for a transplant. Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle 2012-05-22T23:12:24Z Workers are replaced with mechanical devices wherever possible. You?re the Boss Blog: Can my woodworking shop compete with one in Germany? 2012-05-11T11:00:59Z Many other forms of heliostats have been designed, the chief difference consisting in the mechanical devices for maintaining the constant direction of the reflecting ray. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He understood—for he had felt—the fascination of knowledge apart from its application to mechanical devices; he did not disdain to devote his great powers to the service of mankind. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z It was principally devoted to the trial of various mechanical devices which had no success whatever,—such as metal rings; frameworks of canvas or of paper placed upon the table; plates on pivots and spring-keys. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It involves the employment of no mechanical devices of any kind, and it allows of obtaining currents of any desired frequency from an ordinary circuit, direct or alternating. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z It was Mr. Cheney’s third heart operation: the first was in the 1980s for coronary bypass, and the second was when the mechanical device was implanted. Cheney Heart Transplant a Recent Decision 2012-03-26T04:49:23Z With the aid of electrical or mechanical devices adapted to it, it is used for the automatic regulation of the temperature of rooms warmed artificially, and as a fire alarm. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The mechanical value of a given amount of power cannot be either increased, diminished or destroyed by means of any mechanical device or appliance whatsoever through which it may be transmitted. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z In the presence of facts so evident, it is almost incredible that they wish to impose upon us instruments, needles, and mechanical devices. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The accompanying sketches also illustrate improvements made by Mr. Tesla in the mechanical devices used to effect the shifting of the brushes, in the use of an auxiliary brush. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z While Mr. Cheney had been active and mobile with the mechanical device, his experience with it “was not event free,” said Dr. Reiner, who declined to specify the issues or say whether any were life-threatening. Cheney Heart Transplant a Recent Decision 2012-03-26T04:49:23Z No satisfactory scientific explanation of the modifications in the pitch effected by the partial obstruction of the bell, whether by the hand or by means of certain mechanical devices, has as yet been offered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The mechanical devices for transmitting motion from the lead screw to the carriage are shown in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z They will produce it in abundance; they will probably perfect some mechanical device, a poem-jenny, perhaps, which will produce a standard poem in a short time and gradually do away with the home-manufactured article. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z I have tried it, and sundry other mechanical devices over very rough roads. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Patients just do better than they do with a mechanical device. Cheney Heart Transplant a Recent Decision 2012-03-26T04:49:23Z In these workshops young Cyrus McCormick probably got his first love for mechanical devices. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z A mechanical device on the barge shot the machine and pilot into the air. Story of the Aeroplane 2012-02-05T03:00:08.697Z The most approved mechanical devices, including statistical machines, have been installed under Captain Gooch's direction. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z The musical accompaniment and songs became minor features; the lively action, elaborate mechanical devices, dumb show, strong contrast of virtue and evil, and the happy ending remained the essentials. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z O′�graph, a mechanical device for drawing the outline of a bird's egg.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Apollo, that the player-piano roll was a mere mechanical device, not an unauthorized copy of sheet music. SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat 2012-01-18T14:06:04Z A mechanical device, or a new type of ship which might destroy this menace six months hence, would not have helped us, for by that time Germany would have won the war. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Of course we may rule out the mechanical device. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Many mechanical devices in common use may be traced to the patterns furnished by nature. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Before, researchers worked primarily with simple "linear" mechanical devices, whose vibration frequency remains the same no matter how vigorously they vibrate. Using Light to Flip a Tiny Mechanical Switch 2011-10-23T18:00:41Z The word gin is an abbreviation of engine, and in former days was often used to denote a handy mechanical device of any kind. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The first is Babbage’s Difference Engine, a mechanical device to calculate the values of polynomial functions. Building a New Computer Based on 19th Century Plans 2011-09-23T05:53:01Z Under the second head we may consider the mechanical device known as the grid, grille, or screen. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z “The electronic age is upon us,” said Pastor, “and there are numerous mechanical devices for obtaining information.” Details released of 30-page questionnaire for potential jurors in trial of MJ?s doctor 2011-09-10T09:15:55Z He loathed the thing, tell himself as often as he would that it was nothing but a mechanical device to supplement Nature. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z With these mechanical devices, the use of the pen becomes the easier. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z The hospital has been using mechanical devices to support patients with end-stage heart failure since the 1980s. Plastic heart gives dad new life 2011-08-02T19:23:52Z The great hobby of his life had been to fill his house at Littlebury, in Essex, with mechanical devices of the most absurd and fantastic kind. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Five to fifteen minutes should be allowed for each entr’acte unless the usual waits are to be avoided by some mechanical device. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The earliest mechanical device intended to produce perpetual motion is that known as the overbalancing wheel. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z The relief afforded is immediate, and the cause of relief, a simple mechanical device, is apparent. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Altogether he obtained more than thirty patents for mechanical devices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The number of artists who have taken advantage of this mechanical device is not large, but it includes some of the first masters. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The other hypothesis, that the Cahokians used copper knobs or copper rivets and other mechanical devices to secure sheets of copper together, seems more likely. Researchers Explain Ancient Copper Artifacts 2011-06-15T13:52:00Z Scientists around the world are investigating various ways to regenerate heart tissue, but for now people with severe heart failure must use mechanical devices or hope for a transplant. Scientists show heart can repair itself, with help 2011-06-08T17:02:27Z The effect only works when the mirror is moving through a vacuum at nearly the speed of light -- which is almost impossible for everyday mechanical devices. Moving Mirrors Make Light from Nothing 2011-06-03T21:15:06.353Z In various mechanical devices, where two corresponding parts work within the other, the receiving part is often known as the “female,” as for example in the “male” and “female screw.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z With each new model year, the automobile becomes less a collection of mechanical devices and more a sophisticated network of computers linked to one another and to the Internet. Hack My Ride: Cyberattack Risk on Car Computers 2011-05-31T11:45:00.250Z Numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that "what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops". Law v technology 2011-05-21T11:47:59Z His ideas were sound and a good many of his mechanical devices turned out excellently. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Drawing and mechanical devices absorbed his interest, and nothing gave him greater delight than to visit the shops of mechanics and there with his own hands to work out his new ideas. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z All artificial or mechanical devices, such as hour-glasses, watches, clocks, chronometers, etc., are simply contrivances for the more convenient application of that general and natural standard to all particular events. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z When an organ or tissue is irreparably damaged or traumatically destroyed, no amount of drugs or mechanical devices will restore the patient back to normal. Lab-grown urethra 'world first' 2011-03-08T01:33:15Z "When an organ or tissue is irreparably damaged or traumatically destroyed, no amount of drugs or mechanical devices will restore the patient back to normal," but he said cell-based therapies offer a potential cure. Scientists grow viable urethras from boys' cells 2011-03-07T23:34:40Z A mechanical device spreads these missiles out as they fall from the aeroplane, so that they cover an area of about 200 square yards when dropped from a height of 500 yards. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The dining-room was a mass of mechanical devices, of lifts and electric heaters and telephones to everywhere, the small tables were all polished wood spread with slips of real lace. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z He was quick too in seeing a mechanical device—that was clear from the way he handled the lamps. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z He devoted himself to the problem of flying, studied the wings of birds and produced a series of mechanical devices, tending toward the solution of that problem. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Each finger weighs under 1.5 ounces, which is an advantage because many amputees abandon mechanical devices because of their weight. Cockroach Inspires Robotic Hand to Get a Grip 2011-01-10T16:48:00Z In the meantime, the windpipe is functional without the cells - acting as a sort of mechanical device before the stem cells transform it into an organ, Giovannini said. Doctors: Transplant advance in windpipe cancer 2010-07-30T16:00:00Z Given, then, the idea of counting, and a mechanical device to aid computation, it still remains necessary to obtain some notation in which to record results. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude They were using a mechanical device for extinguishing the candle, and it was tried several times one morning, and always, to my surprise, from the right side of the stage. Life on the Stage This is an early form of what is known as the Murphy button in our time, though it was not the first suggestion of a mechanical device to aid the repair of intestinal injuries. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The keynote is cooperation in securing, with an enthusiasm which amounts to missionary zeal, the best and most uniform methods, with special reference to mechanical devices. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The calling device has no mechanical function co-acting with any of the other parts of the telephone and may be considered as a separate mechanical device electrically connected with the line. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. Since then, there have come from time to time reports of teams taking signals by mechanical devices. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside I had fully expected that, by some ingenious mechanical device, my luggage would be landed simultaneously with myself, and placed on certain square yards of the American Continent set apart for our temporary use. Fragments of an Autobiography Nor were these merely primitive mechanical devices that we would surely despise now. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Their chemistry and their electrical and mechanical devices amazed and astounded him. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Leon was passing into a hypnotic, sleep, caused by the ingenious mechanical device coupled with the skilfully prepared surprise which the mind had received. A Modern Wizard There must be a variety of mechanical devices to negotiate and subtly maneuver all the effects that are to be brought out to artistic and wholesome conclusions. The American Country Girl "You can—well, let's say that you can 'interfere' with electrical or mechanical devices, can't you?" Cue for Quiet The more general employment of automatic carriers and other mechanical devices for doing the work once done by the children would alone tend to check such a movement, if it existed. The Children of the Poor And you used mechanical devices such as this little metal egg to get here. Fair and Warmer This machine is provided with mechanical devices for stopping it on the failure of a sliver, and on the completion of a predetermined length of lap. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Cobber had been looking for a spy mechanism, a mechanical device in Jadiver's body. Tangle Hold But besides these call-notes, birds produce special sounds during the season of reproduction—some by instrument, others by voice, others again by the aid of mechanical device. Territory in Bird Life They had seen no bookkeeping machines, none of the elaborate mechanical devices used in Sol Cluster to record the pulse of commerce. Thompson's Cat With the constant development of mechanical devices, there was always a new machine devised to help the operation of its fellow. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 After the mechanical device had landed them some fifty feet above the rocks, they ascended several flights of stairs, a man with a torch leading the way. A Prince of Good Fellows When the liquid boils, the capsule expands, and by certain mechanical devices regulates the gas supply so as to produce exactly the temperature required. The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente He had never used a mechanical device—how could he have lost it then? The Instant of Now In fact the telephone wire, more than any other mechanical device, is destined to aid in "improving" the burglar out of existence. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast When the canto fermo is in notes of equal length and is sung without intermission, it is of course as rigid a mechanical device as an acrostic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Every rise of wages above a certain measure causes the employer to look to further improvements in his plant, calculated to substitute will-less, automatic mechanical devices for human hands and human brain. Woman under socialism So great is the symmetry and so graceful are the shapes that one is led to suspect the employment of mechanical devices of a high order. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 Bows and arrows were the nearest thing they allowed themselves in the way of mechanical devices.” Ultima Thule He could still hold a book and turn the pages; but it was improbable that he could do so for long, and he was amusing himself by inventing a mechanical device for doing this. The Thread of Gold My guide said they only emerge from their tunnel at night, and proved it by an ingenious mechanical device made of straws attached to the door. Under the Maples He and the others slept at times, for the crew that handled the craft very evidently knew the exact course, and there were mechanical devices that insured their safety. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 As if working by some mechanical device, the figure which stood by each torpedo climbed through the trap-doors, jumped out a second later, and came running to the head of the field. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Here, and later in Philadelphia under the name of the Duryea Motor Corporation and other corporate names, he continued for a number of years to build automobiles, vacuum cleaners and other mechanical devices. The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology We cannot, in this case, suggest that drawings of clocks and of perpetual motion devices occur together by more than a coincidence, for Villard seems to have been interested in most sorts of mechanical device. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass The introduction of the linotype machines, rapid and multiple presses, and other mechanical devices, which vastly increase the output of every shop that adopts them. Commercialism and Journalism These were not all electrical, some used tanks of compressed air, others acetylene, and various mechanical devices, such as the spring starters. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair I had supposed they came from some mechanical device, fastened to the end of a long pole, but as a matter of fact, they were made by the monkey's teeth. The Film of Fear This is as true of any part of the social structure as it is of mechanical devices. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation Mechanism is a word of wide meaning, denoting any combination of mechanical devices for united action. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions From the other protruded what seemed to be a part of a toy, or some real mechanical device having also wheels in its construction. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer Your mechanical devices are wonderful, but as regards your philosophies, the least said of them the better. When Dreams Come True The causes which keep the celestial spheres poised, and which control their motions, are far more wonderful than any mechanical device. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language Every new mechanical device, every advance in business organization or in science, which makes the world more tolerable for most of us, makes it impossible for others. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He found, as every artisan finds, that exact drawing is necessary not only to the study of existing mechanical devices, but particularly to the successful design of new parts. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History His mind was fertile in mechanical devices, so that if one proved troublesome, he could always turn his attention to another. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force To be capable and efficient in one's work is a splendid thing; but efficiency can be made a great mechanical device that robs life of far more than it returns it. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit Several mechanical devices have been invented for milking, some of which have been tested bacteriologically as to their efficiency. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying There is something in the catalogue of mechanical devices which almost affects the mind with fatigue. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 Afranio's was the age of ingenious mechanical devices applied to musical instruments, many of which, like Afranio's, being mere freaks, did not survive the inventor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" They are either so absurdly over-ornamented as to have their usefulness completely impaired, or else they are the usual mechanical device equally complicated and hideous. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature The earliest mechanical device for carding fibers was invented by Lewis Paul in England in 1738 but not patented until August 30, 1748. The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines It’s a mechanical device to keep his blood in circulation; that’s all. The Place of Honeymoons Burgess, who liked Frohman immensely, tried to get him to take charge of this piece, but Frohman would not listen to the proposition about the mechanical device. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man A young man so fearless, so energetic, and so able to invent mechanical devices at sudden need, was bound to succeed in a business like this. James B. Eads I thanked Providence for the perfection of the Han mechanical devices when I reached the station. The Airlords of Han This is true not only in cases of automatic writing in which the hand is directly employed, but also in those in which some mechanical device such as the planchette or the ouija board intervenes. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers The mechanical device may also be displaced or destroyed, leaving the trap without a seal. Elements of Plumbing He disliked the introduction of mechanical devices into the Lancashire weaving mills. Aviation in Peace and War There is no uniform key for any given song, for the Indians have no mechanical device for determining pitch to create a standard by which to train the ear. Indian Story and Song from North America The mechanical devices which may be used for each of these operations are various, and they may be combined in various ways to make the complete train of machinery necessary to the complete process. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Drugs will not help you, mechanical devices will not do the work for you, though they may aid you. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The constant and rapid adaptations to fashion, the new mechanical devices introduced, and the labor situations are factors to be considered. The Making of a Trade School "When you've got a mechanical device as good, or nearly as good as a virtuoso, you've got something of enormous importance to the whole world." The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players When the trout bites, you strike him and land him by hand, without the help of rod or landing-net or any other mechanical device. Days Off And Other Digressions A mechanical device, however ingenious may be the construction, or however accurate the workmanship, can never possess what is called perpetual motion. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon Everything normal; all mechanical devices were operating perfectly. Egocentric Orbit The lack in this instruction has been in specific trade application and flexibility as to method, artistic needs, and mechanical devices. The Making of a Trade School Dickie and Dr. Knott together in that bedchamber, experimenting with unlovely, mechanical devices for aiding locomotion and concealing the humiliation of deformity, were almost forgotten. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Immense as the influence of mechanical devices may be, they cannot by themselves decide a campaign. Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 Practical Treatise on the Combustion of Coal: Including descriptions of various mechanical devices for the Economic Generation of Heat by the Combustion of Fuel, whether solid, liquid or gaseous. 8vo. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Unlike the first volume, which is more elementary in character, this volume contains illustrations and descriptions of many combinations of motion and of mechanical devices and appliances found in different lines of machinery. Practical Pointers for Patentees The third section of the work describes in detail the various mechanical devices which have been patented for carrying out the treatment on yarn and cloth. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 Nor will any mechanical device assist you, for nothing can successfully defeat the wandering of the mind. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 With all the single mindedness of religious fanatics they continued to observe the strange mechanical device. Jubilation, U.S.A. In treatment he uses simple remedies, is not affected by polypharmacy, and suggests many ingenious mechanical devices. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield No one is competent nowadays to say surely of any ordinary mechanical device that it is absolutely new. Monopolies and the People He was not merely a printer, he was also a literary man; and, when he devoted himself to printing, he took to it as an art, and not as a mere mechanical device. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 No one claimed this reward, but the spirit of invention was nevertheless awake, and experiments in more than one mechanical device were being made about the middle of the century. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England And then one of the circles, by mechanical device, was raised into the air above all the others. Tarrano the Conqueror The horizontal position is the easiest for the amateur who has a vice or handscrew, because he may hold the work securely with a mechanical device and so avoid the unnecessary risk to his fingers. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Frequently these fail, and it will be necessary to restrain the child from scratching the face by the use of some mechanical device. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It cannot be appeased by any mechanical device. The New Society These photos will have opened the eye and the mind of many a sleeping one as to what can be done by way of mechanical device to approach the direct charm of life in nature. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets That is one thing in which your mechanical devices are superior to anything my own race developed before we became pure intellectuals. The Skylark of Space I delved in far enough to find a mechanical device, if there had been one. Ten From Infinity Military operations today are largely a question of motive power through mechanical devices. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 The Well-tempered Clavichord for one hour a day is of more value to a pianist technically and musically than an army of mechanical devices. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques To any government that was clear about values, that saw all problems in their relation to human life, the tariff would be an incident, a mechanical device and little else. A Preface to Politics At the back of the transmitter there was a mechanical device which regulated the intensity of the sound. Rimrock Jones Through methods of realisation.—It will readily be seen that the forms assumed by a motive depend greatly upon the character of the mechanical devices employed. Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466. The perfection of mechanical devices and the refinement of methods here exhibited would seem to be in advance of the achievement of this people in other directions. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 Baboons use poles as levers, stones as hammers, and seem to understand the more simple mechanical devices. The Human Side of Animals The greatest variations found in brick presses are in the means adopted for actuating the ram; and many ingenious mechanical devices have been applied to this end, each claiming some particular advantage over its predecessors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Saving Teeth Some dentists and physicians have until lately given too much attention to the saving of teeth, without fully realizing the dangers of infection from the mechanical devices employed. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science It is not until the historic age that we have the potter's wheel, the oldest and first mechanical device mentioned in history. The Story of Porcelain Men communicate information to one another by voice, gesture, drawing, writing or other mechanical devices. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life It was not a mechanical device within the image. The Mark of the Beast The Woodbury machine, one of the earliest mechanical devices for the manufacture of brushes, which was invented in America about 1870, produced brushes of this kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A mechanical device had been thought of, by which this could be done. Three Years' War Name four mechanical devices, or machines, found in the skeleton and state the purpose served by each. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools For example: If a cannon ball were to be fired off by some mechanical device a million miles from where there was any ear to hear, would there be any sound? The Recitation He was an erratic genius, and had taken up various occupations without much success, besides having invented valuable mechanical devices which had brought him no profit. The Story of Cooperstown In order to get satisfactory and economical service and a long life, any range or mechanical device must be kept clean. Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use We depended upon Germany for many of our toys: France expects the Anglo-Saxon nursery henceforth to rattle with the mechanical devices which will provide meat and drink for her maimed soldiers. The War After the War Purpose of Striated Muscles.—The striated muscles, by their attachments to the bones, supply motion to all the mechanical devices, or machines, located in the skeleton. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools As in the case of the Scarabæus sacer, the exact spherical form is produced without the mechanical device of rolling the ball. Social Life in the Insect World When employed as a mechanical device to represent the hair of the head, we get the Roman Empress disguised as a sponge or a honeycomb. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Mr. Spencer took intense interest in mechanical devices. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie It is the same with reading, writing, playing upon musical instruments, the manipulation of all sorts of mechanical devices, the thousand and one other muscular activities that become what we call habitual. The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency The mechanical device employed for this purpose is known as The Lever.—The lever may be described as a stiff bar which turns about a fixed point of support, called the fulcrum. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools There appears to be no mechanical device for removing the ashes out of the cellar. If You're Going to Live in the Country Shading is as easily accomplished as in music and the development of this art need not be inhibited by a lack of mechanical devices and light-sources. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Wise men can, indeed, imitate this device, but a single seed will in a few months construct many scores of these mechanical devices. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service If a given mechanical device accords strictly with theory, it will come out all right practically. Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology There is required, in the first place, a mechanical device or machine which is so constructed as to produce a certain kind of motion. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools This is the reason why no mechanical device, be it never so skillfully contrived, can ever take the place of the living artist. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation The mechanical devices to insure easy rotation are similar in all respects to those previously described for the motor. General Science Furthermore, in these experiments no attempt was made to control the factor of pressure by any mechanical device. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Exaggerated types of mischievous children and freakish adults, and equally freakish and unthinkable mechanical devices, are favorite subjects. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals In the production of motion three important systems are employed—the muscular system, the nervous system, and a system of mechanical devices which are found mainly in the skeleton. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools No mechanical devices can take the place of face to face question and answer. A Library Primer But, nevertheless, gas is saved, because when the mantle is adjusted to the gas jet, the pressure of the gas is lessened by a mechanical device and hence less gas escapes and burns. General Science For the sake of more careful study, however, the rod should be moved at a constant rate by some mechanical device, such as the pendulum and works of a Maelzel metronome removed from their case. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. But now scenery was imperatively necessary to a dramatic performance, and a sort of passion arose for mechanical devices and decorative appliances of a novel kind. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In most places they form mechanical devices for supplying special movements, and in certain places they provide for the support or protection of important organs. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Honour the instrument by which we rule ourselves; but worship not a mechanical device, and call not a means an end! Lewis Rand Hence, some mechanical device for periodically reversing the current is necessary, if the motor is to be of commercial value. General Science No formula or canon of proportions or other mechanical device for the attainment of perfection was allowed by this vital people entirely to subdue their love of life and variety. The Practice and Science of Drawing Some mechanical device is necessary for sealing this can, and this is the sealer. Every Step in Canning The bones of the hand provide a mechanical device, or machine, for grasping, and the arm serves as a device for moving this grasping machine from place to place. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools The truth of the matter is that our mechanical devices have gone so far toward taking the place of manual labor that we only have one line of physical development—our athletic sports. Keeping Fit All the Way Over the well was a great leaden lid of extraordinary weight, and by a certain mechanical device this lid was closed on the well every evening at sundown. Waysiders Scenical representations and mechanical devices in Italy had long been made a fine art, and an English traveller and critic observes that our painting compared to theirs is only daubing. A History of Pantomime It contained every facility for his various new designs, and in it he anticipated many advances in electrical science and in mechanical devices, which have made the civilization of our day so remarkable. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars It preserves the form of the body, protects important organs, and supplies the mechanical devices, or machines, upon which the muscles act in the production of motion. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools The only mechanical device used by the President is a simple, unoffending golf-club. Keeping Fit All the Way The successful motion picture expresses itself through mechanical devices that are being evolved every hour. The Art of the Moving Picture Lastly, there are men, and a great many of them, who appear to be quite incapable of coherent thought, yet can handle machinery or any mechanical device to a marvel. The First Hundred Thousand Spinning-machines, power-looms, and all the mechanical devices, acting, among other operatives, in the factories and workshops, are but so many laborers. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style The skeleton, or bony framework, which preserves the form of the body and supplies a number of mechanical devices, or machines, for causing a variety of special movements. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Outside of business enterprise and diplomacy—the political extension of business—mechanical devices have lost the surprise reaction and resentment which they originally set up. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators Those walls, floors, and ceilings, for instance, through which no sound of human origin, unaided by mechanical device, could penetrate, must have cost a mint of money. The Penalty Down these the stretchers are beginning to pass, having been raised from below decks by cunning mechanical devices which cause no jar; and are being conveyed into the cool shade of the dock-shed. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand Some other chance meeting with a human machine, a mechanical device, an infinitesimal microbe that happened to be at the same place at the same time brings disaster or death. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment The wagon is the mechanical device, the horse furnishes the energy, and the driver supplies the controlling force. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools It was many days before I reasoned out the cause of this sound; and until I did I supposed it was produced by some mechanical device resorted to by the detectives for a purpose. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Sarpi, in the seventeenth century, thanks a correspondent for the gift of one of these mechanical devices. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti There were reading desks, mechanical devices for holding books, perfect light, quiet as in a church, and no approach but across the huge adjoining room. The Damned Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph was mainly an invention employing powers and agencies through mechanical devices to produce a given end. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction —prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. The Devil's Dictionary It also did much to rescue work, industry, and mechanical devices from the contempt in which they had been held in communities founded upon the control of a leisure class. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Not only was it a new industry, one without shadow of prototype, but the mechanical devices for making the lamps, and to some extent the very machines to make those devices, were to be invented. Edison, His Life and Inventions He had six play-rooms, all filled with the most expensive toys and ingenious mechanical devices. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories The labor of a single worker increased in effectiveness many times; in other words, the labor cost of a unit of production greatly diminished with the improvement of mechanical devices. The United States Since the Civil War A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. The Devil's Dictionary The words and forms he employs to express thought seem sometimes mechanical devices for that purpose, rather than an utterance which suggested itself naturally to a mind where the thought was vitally present. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare No mechanical device, however efficacious, can produce symphonies or pictures or works of any kind with the high degree of excellence of which the hand is capable. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece They came to the great things like these, seeking something, usually some mechanical device, to take away to their own work. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love It is a mechanical device, with a lever, fitted into a slot at the top, which extends half way around the circumference and is held in place at the bottom by a fixing pin. Over the Top The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. The Devil's Dictionary He realized that he was falling into a routine, was giving conventional directions, relying upon the printed prescriptions and mechanical devices. The Web of Life Some are sectioned, and operated by electric motors, vividly illustrating the latest mechanical devices. The Jewel City Fourier anticipated many inventions, mechanical devices for taking the place of handiwork in the household, among others. My Friends at Brook Farm This roof concealed a loft, from which gods and goddesses or any appropriate properties could be let down by mechanical devices. A History of English Literature Much may be done by utilization of mechanical devices to save time and energy. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study Have I been the author of the seven liberal sciences, and consequently of all learning, have I been the patron of all mechanical devices, to be thy inferior? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 We obtained our object, thanks to a mechanical device, one which has no precedent in the annals of industrial art. Topsy-Turvy He was then directed to a seat on a mechanical device that moved in a circle; and as he sat there he looked through the powerful glasses of the immense telescope. Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory This many-sided man liked to toy with mechanical devices. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. He covered the plant from top to bottom, and no wheel stopped turning, no mechanical device gave way, without his instant attention. The Silver Horde Yes, thousands of yet untenanted graves yawn for the future victims of these mechanical devices. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Which made him reflect irritably that of all the mechanical devices of a mechanical age the thing he hated most of all was a telephone! Little Miss By-The-Day To them are to be added the difficulties which result from a desire to employ in a serious drama mechanical devices of a kind that custom associates only with children's pantomimes and idle spectacles. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time These memories refer, perhaps, less to any special game than to the mechanical device of which that game is a particular instance. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic More than fifty patents were granted under the Patent Act of 1790, and mechanical devices were coming in so thick and fast that the department heads apparently found it inconvenient to hear applications. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Learning how to operate simple mechanical devices is different from learning how to program new tools capable of commanding sophisticated technology and of controlling tremendous amounts of energy. The Civilization of Illiteracy Hooke was the first curator of the Royal Society, and when anything was to be investigated, usually invented the mechanical devices for doing so. A History of Science — Volume 2 Their manufacture has continued until the present day although much limited, largely because of the employment of mechanical devices which seek to safety monetary instruments. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. In an age for which machinery has accomplished such heroic service, the dependence upon mechanical devices acquires quite unprecedented dimensions. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students We can readily trace the source of energy in mechanical devices. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business The personal touch of handwriting is obfuscated by the neutral camera-a mechanical device, after all. The Civilization of Illiteracy Huygens was one of the first to adapt the micrometer to the telescope—a mechanical device on which all the nice determination of minute distances depends. A History of Science — Volume 2 The method of continually pouring in water through a little tube, like the manner of communicating force through the volume of the liquid to a small metal plate, is an absurdly primitive mechanical device. The Magic Skin For he found the young inventor in the experiment shop, surrounded by a mass of papers and all sorts of mechanical devices. Tom Swift and His Air Scout, or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky In either the expenditure of energy is as dependent upon known causes as is the activity of the mechanical devices mentioned above. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business Instead of manipulating a huge lathe, or forge, or exceedingly complicated multiple mechanical device, you manipulate temperatures and pressures and vary the reaction medium. The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war He had enormous and poetic admiration, though very little understanding, of all mechanical devices. Babbitt |
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