| 单词 | motive power |
| 例句 | The stationary earth cannot be the source of that motive power, so the innermost sphere must be moved by the next sphere out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “A clever man will never underestimate the motive power of dust and bones,” O’Connor contends. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z It said it had received 95 complaints alleging that the oil pump may fail, resulting in a loss of motive power while the vehicle is in motion. US opens probe into about 240,000 Ford EcoSport vehicles -NHTSA 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z I provide the motive power, a.k.a. the push. Perspective | The simple pleasures of a simple machine: The push lawnmower 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The FIA rules for a Land Speed Record Car are that "the motive power and steering system… are constantly and entirely controlled by a driver on board the vehicle". Bloodhound Diary: Speedy politicians 2013-09-23T10:21:41Z Gustave Whitehead in flight at an altitude of 4 meters with the motive power provided by a brawny assistant. Recent Bill in Connecticut Proclaims Gustave Whitehead Was Truly the First to Fly, Not the Wright Brothers 2013-06-13T11:45:00.147Z The passing canal-boats with their patient motive power afforded unfailing interest to the little M'Cartys by day, and the swish of the displaced waters lulled them to sleep at night. The Misfit Christmas Puddings 2012-05-22T15:16:50.590Z Will you, please, answer me one question, namely: as you appear to travel about 250 miles in an hour, I want to know in what consists your motive power? The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z He therefore planned a number of crucial experiments such as the “porous plug” experiment, to test the equivalence of heat and motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In quite a number of towns the public water service is 161 artesian, and in a few it is the motive power of electric lighting systems. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z T. B. Robinson, of the Union Army, riding side by side in an old shay drawn by the principal motive power of that day, oxen. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z It's the motive power, so to speak, if you manage to follow my meaning. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z And the heart in turn depends upon the brain, not for food, but for stimulus, for motive power, without which food is inert. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The water after being heated passes into a circulating tank into which steam is introduced; this, mixing with the hot water, gives it additional motive power, resulting in a faster circulation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Still, practically, it was not till after the Crimean war that steam became the leading motive power in our war navy. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z In 1829-30 the use of steam as a motive power on railroads had begun to engage the attention of American engineers. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z But there is a possibility of obtaining energy not only in the form of light, but motive power, and energy of any other form, in some more direct way from the medium. 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 A selfÐmoving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; Ð applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Since the pressure is greater during the expansion, the quantity of motive power produced by the dilatation is greater than that consumed by the compression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A forward section of the main cylinder holds a powerful gas, condensed into liquid form, and used as the motive power, and connected with the machinery by a valve operated by electricity. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Closer observance revealed the motive power to be a multitude of small boys who sat, closely packed together, on benches, holding aloft branches, many of which were wreathed with flowers. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z It has also been found that if the motive power of the generator is not excessive, by checking the motor the speed of the generator is diminished in synchronism with that of the motor. 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 Ring the changes upon these Ethardi and the motive power that each applies, O my wakeful friend; and at least you may lose sight of your own individuality. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z We shall thus obtain a balance of motive power, which may be employed for any purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In front of, and facing, her was Revere, with the oars, which, impelled by his powerful arms, afforded the motive power that speeded the boat on her way. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The train, it was at length admitted, was too heavy for the motive power. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Some of these have Jacquard mechanism attached, and nearly all of them are driven by motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z About that time the road began adding to its motive power; new engines, among them the Theodore Irwin and the C. Zabriskie, were being purchased, and these were all coal burners, bituminous, of course. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z The impossibility of producing by the agency of heat alone a quantity of motive power greater than that which we have obtained in our first series of operations is now easy to prove. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But an increase of the precious metals, in such quantity as to check this tendency, operated as a new motive power to the machinery of commerce. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z One of the principal uses to which it has been put is to act as a temporary motive power for fire engines. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z The motive power must have been a mainspring instead of a weight. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z There was one time, at least, when the upkeep of the motive power suffered a real shock. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z This theory gave no explanation of the source of the motive power produced by expansion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A very large part of the motive power in his plays consists in the temporary yielding to an evil passion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z He must furnish the motive power, the belts, and the oil in the form of proper food, shelter, and kindly treatment. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z I'll give you six months in which to make good as a model superintendent of motive power. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Steam it is which brings untold masses of coal and iron from the bowels of the earth, and converts them into machinery and motive power. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z In the middle of the 19th century the terms “force” and “motive power” were commonly employed in the sense of “power of doing work.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Its motive power consisted of a clumsy engine that moved horizontal bars, upon which were279 fastened a number of oars or paddles. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Only after this was accomplished did they propose to add motive power to keep it above the earth. Story of the Aeroplane 2012-02-05T03:00:08.697Z “Surest thing you know!” was the answer, and in a short time Clay was at work on the motive power, which was not much out of repair and was soon fixed. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z As soon as the vessel dives, therefore, it changes its motive power to an electric motor, which makes no inroads on the oxygen needed for sustaining the life of its crew. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z We might thus obtain without any consumption of fuel a practically unlimited supply of motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Wide and solid knowledge of design, combined with a promptitude of composition that was never at fault, formed the chief motive power and merit of Giulio Romano’s art. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The propeller supplies motive power to the aeroplane. Story of the Aeroplane 2012-02-05T03:00:08.697Z For what but a dealer in this article was that �olus who supplied Ulysses with motive power for his fleet in bags? Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z In order to recharge these batteries and gain motive power for subsurface travel, the submarine has to come to the surface. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Carnot’s Statement of his Principle.5—If the above reasoning be admitted, we must conclude with Carnot that the motive power obtainable from heat is independent of the agents employed to realize it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z And as the motive power of this formidable mechanism of force they could rely on the native suspiciousness of the Parisian populace, exaggerated now into madness by famine and the menace of foreign invasion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z This vexed problem has occupied the minds of engineers and inventors since the introduction of steam as a motive power, and there are several theories of boiler explosions, each having its adherents. Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.?No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:30.823Z The motive power of the sugar-mills is mostly water and steam. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Her father had provided the money, but the motive power, the taste and planning, had been hers. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z We must understand here that each of the methods of developing motive power attains the perfection of which it is susceptible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The Governing of Engines.—Various methods have been adopted for the purpose of varying the motive power of an engine between no load and full load, still preserving, however, a constant speed of rotation. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z Of these, the latter are the most used, on account of their easy operation and their submitting to the greatest stresses with a very satisfactory proportionality of the expenditure of motive power. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z We do not doubt the mechanical genius of inventors—but the motive power. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z But we want economy in time as well as economy in the application of motive power. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Some waste of motive power occurs here because heat is allowed to pass from one body to another at a different temperature, but the waste in this case is so small as to be immaterial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But with the exception of a few special instances, such arrangements are not widely used—at least not for the production of motive power alone. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z It will be seen that the general principle applied for utilizing the motive power is that of direct action. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z The motive power is a Siemens motor driven by storage batteries. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z The walls of his hut are seldom unadorned with an ancient fowling-piece: generally a converted "flinter," modernized with percussion lock, and having an enormous exterior spring for its motive power. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Are other agents preferable to steam for developing motive power from heat? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Before considering the choice, installation, and operation of a gas-engine, it will be of interest to ascertain ix the relative cost of different kinds of motive power. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z It is understood that this motive power is subdivided ad infinitum, since it is spread over all the muscles of the animal. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z That, though, is a small price to pay for the warm, virtuous glow which comes from converting waste into motive power. DIY biofuels: The fat of the land 2011-12-01T16:06:02Z At intervals we pass picturesque cargo-boats, upward bound, and laboriously making their way against the current, motive power being supplied by a gang of watermen hauling on a tow-rope ashore. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Heat, according to Carnot, in the type of engine we are considering, can evidently be a cause of motive power only by virtue of changes of volume or form produced by alternate heating and cooling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The light waggonette, which, with the cart, constituted the sole wheel motive power at Heath Hover, swung easily over the hardened snow; but once under way, Mervyn felt himself beset with misgivings. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z To effect this, he employs two motive powers: the legs, which give the impulse by the croup; and the hand, which directs and modifies this impulse by the head and neck. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z Naturally, in such a country, one meets frequently with sawmills, and here the countless cataracts are found useful in supplying motive power. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z The difference between the motive powers in the economy of society under private property and under Communism would be greatest in the case of the directing minds. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z Wherever there exists a difference of temperature, it is possible to have the production of motive power from heat; and conversely, production of motive power, from heat alone, is impossible without difference of temperature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But in employing any of the many excellent motive powers at command now, and with larger machines, we will be able to surpass the swiftest birds. Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences 2011-11-24T03:00:42.240Z A perfect harmony of forces ought then to exist always between these two motive powers; but the same harmony is equally necessary between the parts of the animal they are intended particularly to impress. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z Yet the long dreary family storm ends in sunshine; the discordant pair are redeemed by Love,—the real motive power of this story,—and one feels that it can never happen again. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z And because of the facility with which alcohol can be compressed it is said to be more effective as a source of motive power than would be expected from its comparatively feeble heat. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z In other words the production of motive power from heat is not merely a question of the consumption of heat, but always requires transference of heat from hot to cold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Indeed, every particle of matter, organic or inorganic, has motive power, and is therefore endowed with a living principle, however sluggish or inert it may appear. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z We must then establish two motive powers, the effect of which balances, without interfering; this, the tension of the rein on the opposite side from the leg will produce in the pirouette. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z It uses up its motive power as fast as it acquires it. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Another chamber contains the compressed air which furnishes the motive power. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Direct transference of heat by conduction or radiation between bodies at different temperatures is equivalent to wasting a difference of temperature which might have been utilized to produce motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z However this may be, it is certain that its motive power acts in reference to adapting means to ends, and is therefore controlled by reason,—a reason that is infinitely superior to human reason. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z The motive power which results from muscular contraction. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z The motive power is furnished by 14 gas engines of a total capacity of 366 H.P. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z In Mechanical Inventions of To-day I have dealt with the uses which can be made of heat as a motive power. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z But the code is dictated by a genuine spirit of reform, and might have worked improvement had it been sustained by a motive power. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Close by, the water has been impounded for a large reservoir, which supplies not only irrigation but also motive power for a cotton-mill employing 2000 hands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The rider can, henceforward, continue his work by operating with a less direct motive power, and without the animal's being impressed by the sight of him. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z The engine is self-acting, and can be driven either by hand or by a steam-engine or other motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Life is an action; the principle of life, whatever may be its nature, is eminently and visibly a principle of excitation, of impulsion, a motive power. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The examination system of Laud had lacked a motive power, and had depended, like his policy, on his fiat instead of vital force. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z They enlarged on the picnics and drives they were going to have, with Hepsy to furnish the motive power. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z She has to use steam as a motive power, which, in the form of coal, has to be brought long distances and at great cost. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z The steam engine was introduced to supply motive power, and only one thing stood in the way of an enormous production of the new staple. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z If there is energy to begin the undertaking it will soon furnish its own motive power. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The motive power was now supplied by a list of honours in classics and mathematics, and among the earliest winners in the first class in both schools was Robert Peel. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Within the body, as a dweller and a motive power, is the ego, the real self. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z He discussed first "whether a single roller gin, operating against a saw gin, will do an equal amount of work with less motive power and less labor." The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z The vessel relied almost as much upon wind as upon steam for motive power, but during the voyage of twenty-five days steam was used on eighteen days. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Sufficient motive power and rolling stock can be obtained much more cheaply for motor truck logging than for a railroad. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z Cupidity is not the motive power; it's simple shortage of the needful—from their point of view. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z The motive power is furnished by twisted rubber bands contained within the tubular body of the machine. The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco 2011-09-06T02:00:11.117Z “All because you, Mother Wit, suggested using the kite for motive power that day,” said her brother, admiringly. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z The idea of using electricity as motive power on railroads is nearly as old as the railroads themselves. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Women whose soul and intentions are pure rule the men they love through their virtues; but women who do not truly wish them well find a motive power in their evil inclinations. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Kites and balloons also were seriously suggested as motive powers. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z He had managed to scrape up a dilapidated cart and harness somewhere or other, and poor old Bob furnished, greatly to his disgust, the draft and motive power. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z If a kite would give motive power to a man skating, why not use a more up-to-date air-power scheme on the ice?” The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z In Gerbert's clock weights were the motive power for the mechanism. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Let us place side by side the dogmas of Christianity and the motive power of the Rationalist, and see which of these two is the gladder life-moulder of man. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Another much-derided suggestion was that the motive power should be a long rope or chain, and the notion was scorned, but we have lived to see many successful lines of cars run by cable. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Otto patented the well-known engine now in extensive use, but long before that year inventors had been at work, attempting to utilize gas for producing motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z He saw the evil lay deeper, and that it could be cured only by giving to Ireland the motive power of independence. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z When portable clocks were invented, the motive power must have been changed from weights to main-springs, and this change in motive force marks an era in the development of the clock. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Yet all this is mere decoration; the wheel-work that moves the whole machine, the indispensable motive power, is the corps of missionaries. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z One may be described, using the contemporary account of it to show what danger was incurred and through what motive powers. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z It differs from a hot-air or a steam engine in that the heat is given to the working fluid by combustion within the motive power cylinder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Nor, on the other hand, will mechanical folk pay a full respect to a barren engine without cylinders and motive power. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z As far back as 130 B.C., we find mention of "heat engines," which employed steam as their motive power, and were used for organ blowing, the turning of spits, and like purposes. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The vitalizing principle of the society, the motive power of this cumbrous mass, was the small nucleus of Arab tribes that had come forth from the heart of the peninsula. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The motive power, the wind, was the same; the opposing force, the waves, less. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z At this point the Garonne enters a fertile plain, and supplies the motive power to several mills. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z The time is very near at hand when all the motive power of the world may be furnished by animal life. The Key to Success 2011-08-13T02:00:28.033Z This trip firmly proved the possibilities of steam as motive power on railways and started the modern era of railroad building. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Over all arose a cloud of frosted breath, which, like incense smoke, became silvered in the light, a certain signal of efficient motive power. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Who can explain the mystery of its motive power? Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z All the machinery in this great plant is driven by electricity from generators whose motive power is supplied by the combustion of gases from the blast furnaces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z They have given us steam as a motive power, the locomotive, the telegraph, the typewriter, the telephone, the automobile, the victrola, the airship. Every Man His Own University 2011-08-04T02:00:22.623Z The first railroad in the United States constructed with the original purpose of using steam as motive power was the South Carolina railroad, a line one hundred thirty-six miles long between Charleston and Hamburg. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z For it shows the individual while still in a stage of growth already reacting on his environment, and becoming a motive power according to the measure of his intellectual and moral endowments. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z A considerable distance is covered in a brief time, the motive power being small horses. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He may now ride, if he so choose, and the machine which carries him furnishes the motive power for operating the supply and cut-off of the grain at intervals. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z A rudder is only useful to a ship that has motive power. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z After a time steam became the sole motive power, and the locomotives were owned by the state. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Electricity in one form or another will undoubtedly be the motive power for air-ships, and every advance in electrical knowledge brings us one step nearer to the day when we shall fly. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z In this country where the motive power is public opinion, the ability to help in forming it is greatly to be coveted. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z He proposed to use gunpowder gas as the motive power. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z It may be that in the mean lies truth, but in exaggeration lies motive power. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Little progress, however, was made in the use of electricity for motive power, because the cost of producing the electric current was so great. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The motive power is gone, and the hopeless man is like a drifting hull in the midst of a wild and desolate sea. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z The motive power to proceed from the hips alone. Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians 2011-07-12T02:00:27.770Z It was probably the earliest attempt to obtain motive power from heat. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z In one form it is motive power, in another it is light, in another heat. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Watches were made possible by the introduction of the coiled spring as motive power, instead of the weight. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z How strangely earnestness sometimes impresses us, even when little else than madness is the motive power! The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z They added that "caveat emptor" ought to be the motive power between man and man in all his mercantile transactions, and that idiots should be left to take care of themselves. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Elevators, which are now so largely used to raise passengers and freight from the lower to the upper stories of high edifices, have for their motive power steam, water, compressed air, and electricity. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z And then, while a warm horse argument grew and thrived among one section, another continued and fostered apace the discussion concerning those just deposited there through the motive power of the quadruped under dispute. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Among his plans were “a planing machine, a crane for lifting heavy bodies, a concentric wheel, and a scheme for using gunpowder as a motive power by explosion, as we to-day employ gasoline.” The Five Best Inventions of the Founding Fathers 2011-07-03T16:21:23Z Immediately over this are two angular-shaped chisel-like cutters, which, on the application of motive power, descend on the horn with an alternating motion, and an inconceivable degree of rapidity and force. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Observe, I am here considering the affections wholly as a motive power; not at all as things in themselves desirable or noble, or in any other way abstractedly good. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z The use of the electric current for these purposes has been found to be perfectly practical, and for heating cars especially, where electricity is the motive power, a portion of the current is economically employed. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z He had not sufficient motive power to enable him to use such an adjustment of oblique propellers as would have ensured simultaneous horizontal and vertical movement. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Either it had made a whimsical dive, or the motive power had failed. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z The motive power is a Corliss engine of one hundred and seventy-five horse power. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z For though a battleship only moves by steam, there are small boats that have canvas as a motive power, and enough of real sailor knowledge is required to make it necessary that instruction be given. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z Of course the great and leading event of the nineteenth century in the matter of inventions relating to ships was the introduction of steam as the motive power. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z In twenty years more steam will be the motive power for carrying all valuable freights, and will be comparatively safe as against pursuing cruisers. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z It is called a double-action horizontal rudder, and if I succeed will give instantaneous control of a flying-machine under all conditions, be it a high wind or the failing of motive power. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z It was run by water brought from McKusick creek, the motive power being an overshot wheel forty-five feet in diameter. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z He believed that the state, or rather the bureaucracy, might be the motive power of national activity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z In fact, there is no modernly discovered practical motive power but what has been found less expensive both as to time and money than horse power. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The exhortations and persuasions do themselves contain the motive power: and instead of arousing himself to action, he is absolutely and necessarily passive under the motives you present. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z The motive power is an overshot wheel, propelled by water from two large springs. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The Irish New Zealander expects his blanket as the grand motive power of believing in souperism. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865 2011-04-19T02:00:18.103Z Wind and water as motive powers have been supplanted by steam and electricity. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z It is the motive power of the government, and unless the judiciary can check it, the courts are of comparatively little worth as balance-wheels in the system. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z These are not the “active principles,” or the “motive powers,” as they have been called; they are the ends of our acting: we simply act in order to gratify them. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z They drove like butterflies in dreams, their motive power indiscernible. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z The motive power was provided by a pair of two-cylinder, compound engines, poised about 8 ft. from the ground, and about 6 ft. apart. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The century thus opened with activity in steam motive power. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The motive power is a reaction waterwheel set in a deep pit, and as all the machinery is concealed, it has quite the appearance of a self-working apparatus. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z But when you talked about understanding and running properly one’s own motive power it appealed to me as being sensible. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z To come more directly to our difficulty, Shelley had the motive power of imagination and the guiding force of reason, but not that of revealed religion. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The motive power was india-rubber in the condition of torsion; the propeller, a screw. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Visions like these, with the ecstasy of certain scenes, are the strongest motive power in Verhaeren's poetic construction. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z The motive power does not seem the resultant of the debate and argument of numerous discordant wills, but to proceed from some one definite inner source. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z These seemed but a motive power to stir man to action and develop the resources of his mind. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z In health one is apt to think that Love is the great motive power of humanity. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z "Strong inducements, my dear sir," Mr. Petersfield, who was a bachelor, said, "religion and malice, the two strongest motive powers in the female, especially the elderly female, mind." A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel 2011-02-15T03:00:18.213Z There the motive power is a large steam-engine, whose agency is visible in all parts of the establishment. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z He furnished the motive power of her existence. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The great motive power of the later politics of the reign was to be found beyond the Channel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The motive power in such cases may be either electric or hydraulic, but the control of the switches or valves that govern the action of the apparatus is electric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Liberal leadership now devolved from Palmerston on Gladstone, thus bringing on the political field a new and immensely powerful motive power. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Never use gunpowder pile-drivers, always prefer steam, hydraulic, atmospheric, or some other motive power. Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z Social expectation, which is the most powerful steady motive power in human life, makes powerfully for prodigality. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The principal use of the stationary engine is confined to the driving of electric generators and the furnishing of motive power in shops and factories. Steam Engines Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 2010-12-20T17:12:10.227Z Their construction varies with the magnitude of the work to be performed and the character of the motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The heart is unlike a simple machine, because its motive power is not applied from without, but resides in its own substance. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The passion to possess and subdue the land was, in the early history of the Republic, the main motive power both of the political and military history of Rome. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil If this machinery is to act smoothly we must improve our motive power, the source of 331 which is human passion and sentiment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The motive power appears to have been obtained by the torsion of ropes, fibres, catgut, or hair. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Atmospheric Railway, so called in consequence of the motive power being derived from the pressure of the atmosphere, or from compressed air. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Air-engine, an engine in which air heated, and so expanded, or compressed air is used as the motive power. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide For the comparatively small tunnels required for aqueducts, two percussion drilling machines are usually mounted on a carriage, the motive power being derived from compressed air sent up the tunnel in pipes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" What imagination does for us is to find a means of stimulating those motive powers; and it does so by providing a supply of objects strong enough to stimulate them. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The chief practical difference between Kit and an automobile, considered as a motive power, was that it did not strain Kit in the least to go slowly. The Jonathan Papers But there is no motive power in experience. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man What had begun in a grim and unworthy joke had become to him the great motive power of his life. The Man Who Rose Again Just before midnight Chicago wired that No. 1—our big passenger-train, the Denver Flyer—had started out on time, with the superintendent of motive power as engineer and a wiper for fireman. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories The same motive power that prompted the pilgrims to court the dangers and privations of this western hemisphere, still pervades the bosoms of those held in bondage by military force. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Religious faith must ever be the motive power of humanity, and whatever might become of despotism, with or without, it is absolutely essential to democracy. William Bradford of Plymouth In each case the ambition of Russia is the motive power, and in each she seeks to play her game with as little risk, and as much gain, as possible. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar What I want is motive power; given that, I can conquer anything. The Man Who Rose Again The division chief of the motive power was a tremendously big Irishman, with a voice like a fog-horn. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories They may be excused for this supposition from the fact that this is the motive power of their actions and they can understand no other. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution If you place so little value on the passion, which since the beginning of creation has, with hunger, been the motive power of the world, your purveyor of romances certainly has a difficult task. The Children of the World It has therefore been long known as Darwinism, although that term has been usually associated with the recognition of natural selection as the great motive power in organic change. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 There was nothing to restrain him, and he had no motive power to make him desire anything else. The Man Who Rose Again The train end of it didn't bother me any; it was the motive power that kept us studying. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories Revenge seemed to be the motive power of his action. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution A blind man who has received mechanical training, general education, or musical instruction, without physical development, is like an engine provided with everything necessary except motive power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" A brake is sometimes as necessary to safety as motive power is to progress. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Its motive power could not be seen, and it was a terrible spectacle, this enormous giant creeping silently along, as though impelled by the breath of a demon. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Trainmen, elevator-men, superintendents of motive power, were spurred with special orders and special bulletins. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories Genuine moral courage is a sterling virtue—the motive power of the true dignity of man. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution They have also definite assessments upon the members at fixed times without which, for lack of a motive power, no such society would long hold together. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The decision to use oil as the exclusive source of the motive power of fast battleships, and of certain types of small cruisers of exceptional speed, is undoubtedly a very significant one. Naval Warfare What is the motive power of this connected atmospheric machinery, whose action and influence extend over the entire globe? The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The motive power of philosophy is no longer the disinterested pursuit of truth, but only the desire of the individual to escape from the ills of life. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy With his other strong qualities he combined the motive power of business—punctuality. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Here, as in every other operation of nature, the sun is the great heart and motive power that is active in the distribution of moisture over the face of the globe. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. The breath is the motive power of the voice. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists If our work is sought to be accomplished by the lash, without any true motive power, it will come to nought. Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work Tackling was rigged with blocks on the ferry rope, and to the side of the raft, and the raft made its first passage, with signal success, the current being the motive power. Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 It is the motive power of philanthropy and would gladly consolidate the human family in one harmonious universal brotherhood by the heavenly law of love which can fraternize the world. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution To worship God in spirit is to yield the unseen but motive powers within us to the unseen but Almighty influences which we recognise as Divine. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I He hopes to become an electrical engineer—an excellent direction for one's ambition just now, we think, for electricity is to be the motive power of the future far more than it is now. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 Ideas are the motive power which turns the tireless wheels of toil. Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency It is at all times difficult to discover the motive power for certain actions on the part of a human being. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing Practically all the cities3 and large towns have electric tramways, and electricity is also used as a motive power on many lines uniting the larger cities with the surrounding towns and villages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" That is what a weak woman can do when love to Christ is the motive power. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians The motive power for a car is a single small pony, and foreigners marvel to see one of those little animals drawing thirty-odd people. The Greater Republic A History of the United States But though the superior excellence of their machinery enabled Englishmen to start in the race of competition, it was the discovery of the new motive power, drawn from coal, which made them win the race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Surely no such homely and commonplace object had ever been the motive power for such consternation, such despairing, sickening disappointment before. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising “Ho, ho, ho!” he roared again! picking up the dead snake by its late motive power—the twine to wit. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt God hates the great things in which love is not the motive power; but He delights in the little things that are prompted by a feeling of love. To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians The water-pipes, the telegraphic cables, the telephone wires, the pneumatic tubes for the postal service, and the piping for the conveyance of motive power, are all sheltered in these underground thoroughfares. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 Mrs. Morris was exactly the motive power wanting; and by her agency interests sprang up, occupations were created, pleasures invented. One Of Them Then his eyes rolled upward, and abruptly he went limp and fell in a heap, like a mechanical doll whose motive power has failed. When the Mountain Shook It belonged to the gods embraced in the category of "gods of invention," and its motive power was magnicity, the same force that propelled the flying men. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Henry himself was but the vainglorious figure in the international pageant; the motive power was the Cardinal. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The motive power is supplied either by mules and oxen, or by steam. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time God seems to have infused into the blood which flows in their veins, something of that motive power which propels them on their way, without allowing them to stop. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Israel's Messianic hope has become the motive power of civilization. Jewish Theology When Archimedes asked for a base on which to rest his lever, he merely uttered the great truth, that some one fixed point is essential to the success of a motive power. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance There are large metallurgical works with electric motive power close to the town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Pauperism runs in the same ruts in New York as in Pennsylvania, and the motive power is the same—ill-spent money. The Children of the Poor It was necessary in the days of sailing-vessels for the captain to understand the movements of winds which furnished the motive power that carried his vessel. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The motive power is that of pushing, the yoke resting against the slight hump above the animal’s withers. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley He had seen Frank very uproarious more than once, in his cups, but here that motive power was lacking. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion We have come to a point where, for a great number of women, the fashions have become the motive power of life, and where, for almost every woman, they have acquired great importance. The Intelligence of Woman The creed in all its forms lies behind worship, which it preserves from idolatry, and behind ethics, to which it supplies a motive power which the pre-Christian system so manifestly lacked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" They built a train of four cabooses or cars, the motive power of which was steam. Seeds of Pine The former did not exist when I first gazed on St. Anthony falls, which now furnishes motive power for its magnificent mills and factories, and the latter was a town of about two thousand inhabitants. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant Besides, her motive power being steam, her sails were only accessory. Toilers of the Sea The motor’s action being rotatory, the winding drum was the only practical way in which to apply its motive power to hoisting. Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 The different kinds of motive power used to actuate cranes—manual, steam, hydraulic, electric—give a further classification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" But there is something mysterious under this surging multitude--I know not what--a motive power unintelligible to us all, which can no more be resisted with sword and spear than the sea itself. A Captive of the Roman Eagles But, as I have said, the motive power always defeats the object by landing it against the target in a mass of splinters.” Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Our motive power is interest in the game.” Lord Stranleigh Abroad The machinery and motive power are used to their utmost capacity constantly, and the economy of larger engines and machines is well known. Rural Health and Welfare Electricity as a motive power for cranes is of more recent introduction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" In other words, they have not in themselves the motive powers which can cause an intellectual advance. The Intellectual Life He was determined, however, to devote his attention to the study of electricity as a motive power. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 The motive power may be either steam, gas, or electricity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" The motive power here is "A brilliant fantasia for the piano by Signor Rumblestominski." The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. For overhead travellers in workshops, and for most of the cranes which fall into our second class, electricity as a motive power has already displaced nearly every other method. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The Septentriones served as an indicator, composed of stars, the motive power of which emanated from the central luminary. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The breath is the motive power, the primary force, to which the larynx and the resonance chamber are but secondary. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. The motive power required for a ropeway will vary with the conditions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" At the same time, he declares himself upon the side of temperate and generous affection and strives to utilise the erotic enthusiasm as a motive power in the direction of philosophy. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Steam is an extremely useful motive power for all cranes that are not worked off a central power station. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" It is then argued that the changes of climate every 10,500 years during the numerous periods of high excentricity have acted as a motive power in hastening on both geological and biological change. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras But in the fickle doldrums of the period when steam superseded sail as our motive power, we drifted apart. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war More shared to the full the keen sympathy with the hopeless misery of the poor which has been the strong motive power of nearly all speculative communism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The first requisite of the steam engine and a prime requisite of all branches of motive power is a sufficient quantity of pure water. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The nights were the most enjoyable, so full of a delicious sense of repose, the stillness broken only by the great heart-beats of the huge engine which formed our motive power. The Pearl of India In an age of machinery the measure of a people's industrial capacity seems to be surely fixed by its motive power possibilities. Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior This relation is the motive power of the great known dramas of the world. Ancestors A Novel The will, as in all magic, is the motive power which acts sympathetically on the object of desire, that object being in a receptive condition. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Duty has real meaning and conviction becomes a motive power. Training the Teacher Besides these, there were a couple of full-rigged European sailing ships, presenting a strong contrast to the mammoth steamers with their invisible motive power. The Pearl of India It supplies motive power to numbers of mills and collieries; and its whole course is over coal strata. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The manipulation of a motive power capable of invigorating both body and mind, is an occupation worthy to employ intelligence and skill. The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery If we should wound those big brutes without shutting off their motive power, they'd chew us into rags, in about three minutes. Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail Toward the head of the balloon, in a position corresponding to that of the fins of a fish, are placed light wings, capable of a rapid motion, which constitute the motive power. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 The speed is less, the effect of the motive power already paralyzed by the force of the stream, and the bottom sown with sharp rocks. Timar's Two Worlds He had discovered the true motive power at last. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror For a very small sum of money the householder will be able to purchase a sufficient number of capsules to ensure motive power for his fan during a week of hot nights. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast Her engines had once formed the motive power of a clockwork locomotive, but they had now been adapted to marine requirements, and made to turn a small screw. Under Padlock and Seal The same thing is accomplished by developing cheap sources of motive power or introducing new commodities which are good substitutes for dearer ones. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The enthusiasm of the amateur is always a more urgent motive power than the restrained and utilitarian industry of the professional. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories He let the model fly the length of the room before he stopped the clockwork and cut off the motive power, allowing it to sink gently to the floor. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror It seems, however, that electricians have been looking in the wrong direction for the solution of using the same wire for alternate current lighting and for motive power at the same time. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast Their ignorance of its source of motive power often prompted them to name it the “self-moving cart,” just as the natives of Shanghai are wont to call the electric-light “the self-coming moon.” Across Asia on a Bicycle New processes are devised, improved machines are invented, cheap motive powers are utilized, and cheap and available raw materials are discovered, and these changes continually disturb the static state. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy You've got to figure that you're there to supply the needed human note—to let these people understand that this Government of ours is not a mere machine with the motive power at Washington. Mystery Ranch His only reasonable course, therefore, would be to sell the vessel to the Tsar, and leave his Majesty's chemists to discover and renew the motive power if they could. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror In the machine indicated the supply of the motive power is direct from the storage batteries, which can be coupled up in any required number according to the exigencies of the road. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast No motive power was visible, but Jason almost hooted with joy at the prominent stink of burnt fuel. The Ethical Engineer A cheap motive power acts in the same way and lowers the costs of producing an unlimited number of goods. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The motive power by which all the machinery of the establishment is driven, is furnished by a stationary engine in the very centre of the works, represented in the plan. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The lungs, as we have seen, are the bellows of our vocal organ; they supply the air which is the motive power on which the voice depends. The Mechanism of the Human Voice One necessity, however, is the provision of motive power, very small though it be, to work the fan or otherwise promote a draught. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast In either case so much motive power is thrown away and to that extent the brilliancy and fullness of the tone are lost. The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation How we Travel.—Pictures showing vehicles and conveyances of all sorts, classified as ancient and modern, or according to the countries in which they are used, or the motive power, as horses, electricity, steam, etc. Primary Handwork But for a week and a day the motive power of the strike was Grant Adams’s indomitable will. In the Heart of a Fool Altruism may be an initial motive power, prompting people to care for the needy and the suffering, but necessity for the preservation of society is more powerful in its final influences. History of Human Society The peculiar action of the minute capillary vessels is considered, by some physiologists, as a motive power in the arterial circulation. 4th. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Both the characteristic features of the modern railway, the iron road and the steam motive power, developed gradually as necessity urged and groping experiment permitted. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways But what is the impetus, the motive power that sets in motion the human species, that makes it pass from one phase of its evolution to another? Anarchism and Socialism Grant Adams, in his office, was the motive power of the strike. In the Heart of a Fool When you first see these monster cars, with no apparent motive power, rushing about the roads and streets and climbing the steep hills of the town, the effect is very strange. The Truth About America This longing of the mind to find causes, and to discover the original motive power, is however a witness to the ineffaceable connection of the idea of power with that of will. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The railway was nearly completed, and the essential question of the motive power to be used had not yet been decided. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways So that the political history of humanity has, "for sixty centuries," had no other motive power than a phantasmagoria of our brain! Anarchism and Socialism But of course liquid air is not indefinitely available, and exactly here comes the difficulty with the calculations of many enthusiasts who hail liquefied gas as the motive power of the near future. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Horses are used in a few of them, but with most the motive power is steam at one end of the route, which works an endless rope. The Truth About America Some of the communications were referred to the general traffic manager, some to the general passenger agent, others to the superintendent of motive power and machinery. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike They are common with inferior dramatists and writers of prose fiction, whose ruder hands need them as convenient motive powers and as vehicles of the expression of a lower view of human nature. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 That was the sop to her inner judge, but the motive power was this: "At any price I must hold him." The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country The town of Avon, two hours from New York, lay along Avon creek, from which its first manufacturing industries derived their motive power. Carmen Ariza Insects in all stages of their growth are creatures of the warmth; the heat is the motive power that makes them go; when this fails, they are still. Ways of Nature At once, with the introduction of this tremendous new motive power, men had begun to build space ships and explore the sky. The Red Hell of Jupiter Henceforth the current will be our motive power, while our ship, no longer a means of transport, will become a barrack, and we shall have ample time for scientific observations. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I In a few years he transformed them into universal motive powers, and of indefinite force. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Doctor, you wouldn’t cut up a machine to discover the motive power, would you? Carmen Ariza When they run into the beam, their motive power is nullified, and down they fall. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Brand grinned mirthlessly, recalling the three years of intensive study it had taken him to learn the refinements of atomic motive power. The Red Hell of Jupiter They are supplied by a large storage battery, which consumes no air and forms the motive power during subsurface navigation. The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner All passions and all possibilities are in the soul of every one of us, at every moment; only the motive power, the circumstance, the incitement, are needed to make us cross the boundary of restraint. Name and Fame A Novel Oh, she attacks the outside of the cup and platter; you question motive power and ideals. Robinetta As friction absorbs a portion of the motive power, so interest absorbs a part of the value of all commodities sold on credit. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 Looked at narrowly, the advantage which inspiration has been to religions has not so much depended on what it taught, as on its strength as a psychological motive power. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion All of the motive power is located under the body of an ordinary phaeton, the hight of which is not increased by the machinery. The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology From the hour when she read Sydney's letter at Florence she seemed to have had a new motive power within her. Name and Fame A Novel “I’ve told you before, I have so much motive power that I don’t know how to use it.” Robinetta The motive power was electricity and in many other respects she was very similar to the Gustave Z�d�, embodying, however, a number of improvements. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons We have already noted, more or less briefly, several instances of the use of wheels "moving by themselves" or the use of a fluid for purposes other than as a motive power. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass It will not give them a truly adequate idea of the force attainable by this new motive power. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 There was no evidence of motive power other than a sudden radiation from its hull plates of faintly crackling streamers of silvery light. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 A motion tends to be continuous; a body set in motion continues to move as long as the impression of the motive power lasts in it. Thoughts on Art and Life The motive power of the modern submarine is invariably of a two-fold type. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The Light Ether transmits the motive power of the sun along the various nerves of living bodies and makes motion possible. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings What the social machinery of our day needs is spiritual force to provide motive power. The Farmer and His Community The cow was sacred, the ox furnished motive power, and, after its usefulness was gone, the muscular old brute had little attraction for the gourmet. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Impetus is the impression of motion conveyed by the motive power to the object moved. Thoughts on Art and Life A propeller, worked by four wheels, furnished motive power. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons There was a sharp crackling at the stern, where, in a narrow space, the reaction motors provided the forward motive power. The Martian Cabal The motive power is the love of Christ. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India The motive power for the elevating grader is either a tractor or five or six teams of mules. American Rural Highways Without superfluous corn for exportation, the State would be unable to meet its obligations, maintain its solvency, or provide the motive power of progress. England and Germany On the other hand the plucky little David had been disabled to such an extent that her crew had to abandon her and take to the water, allowing their boat to drift without motive power. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The Stephenson engines became the motive power of the Liverpool and Manchester road, which was opened for public traffic on the 16th of September, 1830. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses For this Modern School has two opposing wings, moved by two opposing forces, Science being the motive power of the one, and Byron and De Musset the inspiring geniuses of the 134 other. The Book of Khalid In many cases its use is prohibited by such conditions and for all-round service of this character, mules are preferred for motive power. American Rural Highways Here again financial institutions discharged the functions of motive power. England and Germany As an immediate result of the development of motive power in the submarine its speed both on and below the surface of the water as well as its radius of action has been materially increased. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons The crossing of a single water-shed, owing to the necessity for largely increased motive power, would often materially decrease the value of the goods to be transported. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses I wondered how they could move at all, lacking in any kind of motive power as they seemed to be. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Heat may be transformed into motive power by a suitable engine, but there its adaptability is at an end. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery The motive power, of course, was furnished by the atomic disintegration of powdered aluminum. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 There they were; but at that moment the wind came up with a sudden puff, and filled the sail which the genius of the General had added to the motive power of that "yot." Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The question of motive power was left open as between horses and the steam engine, with which Mr. Stephenson was then experimenting. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses This gelatinous mass is known as protoplasm or plasmodium, and the motive power of the plasmodium has suggested to many that they should be placed in the animal kingdom, or called fungus animals. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth He is our life, our motive power, our aim; and so he casts out the root of our sin, and brings us to God. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Any one of them, Carpenter said, was ample for motive power. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 The front limbs, as in the case of a deer, act largely as supports and the real motive power comes from the hind legs. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' A tide-mill, which gets its motive power from the rise and fall of the tide, is therefore worked by the moon rather than by the sun. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly If the base of the brain is the seat of its motive power, his should not be wanting in force. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Is not the fear of everlasting torment in hell the motive power of much which is called Christianity? Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Each life memorable for goodness and nobility has for its motive power some noble thought. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Nor is there any reason why the motive power which could make a man do such noble deeds and lead such a splendid life should be confined to Generals. General Gordon A Christian Hero And if conversion is the result of motive power, it begins in ourselves and by ourselves. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 When this little equipage had been pushed down nearly to the end of that side of the pier from which the passengers were going on board, it stopped, and its motive power looked behind her. The Squirrel Inn It is our faith in the Bible that leads us to read it; and faith here, as everywhere, is the motive power which reason has only to guide and restrain. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors She gulped the reviving food gratefully, strength coming back with the fuel that gave both warmth and motive power. Rimrock Trail They operate on the electric light in your home or on their own motive power at less than 50 cents per year. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The entire motive power that moves his intellect is carnal, sensual and devilish. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 These agencies form a network of motive power which is gradually carrying the reform into all branches of public work. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The motive power of their life has been taken away from them, and they do not know it; they suppose that they can ride with a bridle and saddle, without a horse. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Before the invention of the steam-engine human industries were largely dependent on the motive power of the wind and running water. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use A waterfall for him merely represents so much motive power. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Know how electricity is used as motive power for street cars, trains, and automobiles. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The committee decided that they must have a double track for cars, whatever might be the motive power. 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 Not only the whole direction of the life is changed, but the motive power is different, and the spirit different. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors That one degree changes that engine into a motive power, not now a thing to be looked at, but a thing to go. Days of Heaven Upon Earth Hence machinery can only aid him by increasing the motive power at his disposal. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production The motive power of his mind was thus widely felt and continually in action. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition He invented many mechanical contrivances, and he laid great and just stress on the importance of motive power for successful flight. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Duty, as a motive power, is set aside. Famous Women: George Sand If such were the faults of the machine, those of the motive power were not less glaring. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Now, since the whole of industrial work consists in moving matter, the advantage of machinery must consist in the production and disposition of motive power. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production He has the requisite motive power, but it is not attached to anything. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier The motive power was supplied by twisted strands of rubber which, as they untwisted, turned the airscrew. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force It is the direct motive power of the muscular system. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject And is not the Cross, which is the emblem of self-renunciation and self-effacement, the motive power of our faith, as it is also the embodied ideal of our Life? India, Its Life and Thought Who would destroy the motive power of our religion and wither its fruits of righteousness? The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 When a singer starts a phrase a certain amount of motive power is required to set the vocal apparatus in vibration. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression If, after all, it be found that some greater motive power is required, we must not despair of the invention of such a power. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force And then the ex-moonlighter's tongue rattled on as if it had, as motive power, a greater force than that which sent the oil up through "The Harnett." Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation They might as well be in motion as at rest, since, with the sail as their motive power, it would require no exertion on their part. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Its motive power was calculated and valued, and the long running to waste of its waters deplored. David Fleming's Forgiveness But your Aunt Mary has suffered many things, and has lost her motive power. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls In the consideration of such a book the motive power, the plot, is hardly of moment—it is the workmanship, and what one might term the self-conviction of the novelist, that counts. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Here is found the rude motive power by and on which legislation has to work; sometimes shaping these feelings to its purposes, sometimes shaping its purposes to them. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 They were consequently of light draught, so much so that to obtain the necessary motive power they each had four screw propellers of small diameter, and they carried four eleven-inch guns in two turrets. Admiral Farragut Remove the motive power and allow the machine to slow down gradually. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. Something that had been said about losing one's motive power had struck very deep. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls “They are crazily afraid of everything in the shape of a conveyance run by its own motive power, from a threshing machine to an automobile.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 I see through the motive power: if Parliament has a right to confer power, it has a right to say what sort of power. Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 In its conception, the monitor was simply a round fort, heavily plated with iron, resting upon a raft nearly flush with the water, and provided with the motive power of steam. Admiral Farragut One thing was certain; two sets of bells were brought into play as the signal for changing the motive power. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet Here in Tideshead she had to provide her own motive power instead of being tributary to a stronger current. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls To reach such a result it requires no less than 3,000 workmen and a motive power of 7,000 horses. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Pressed as it is within narrow bounds, it seems to gush with other motive power than merely gravity. The Book of the National Parks It is incredible that the motive power of the appalling tempests on the great planet can be entirely, or even largely, due to the feeble influence of solar heat. The Story of the Heavens Thus, when the signal was given to change the motive power from the internal combustion engines to electricity, they could see the engine stop, and an attendant shift the clutch which engaged the electric motors. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet This means that he must decide as to his missionary motive,—what motive power shall impel him to leave his native land and go to live among a benighted people surrounded by a thousand disadvantages. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The principle of the gasoline engine as motive power is so familiar to the average farmer that it needs but a brief description here. Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine After his intermarriage with Miss Lizzie West he turned his attention to erecting flour, saw and other mills and building and overseeing their steam motive power. A Pioneer Railway of the West Excuse me, but I think that that there basket or ark in which the comfort is enshrined is rather near the conduit through which flows that sparkling liquid which, when vapoured, supplies our motive power. Jonah and Co. In the volume before us, as in all her previously published writings, we see at its best what Christianity is as the motive power of poetry. Old Familiar Faces Culture is the end of life, the spirit of service the motive power. Chapters in Rural Progress We must not allow the impression to get abroad that mere money is to be the motive power behind our efforts.” 'Firebrand' Trevison No doubt the disturbed state of Ireland, which ultimately supplied the motive power for carrying the emancipation act, contributed at an earlier stage to damp the zeal of its advocates. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Man is swayed by the animal propensities of his nature; he is swayed by the moral and religious elements of his nature; but the intellect, by itself, is not a motive power. Humanity in the City In motive power the difference between classic and Christian poetry must needs be very great. Old Familiar Faces She was without any motive power, being towed by a steam-tug, and, getting into the trough of the sea, rolled and sheered so that she could not be towed. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 There are those who have believed that the invention of many beneficent forms of mechanical power would in time, if not in the very near future, supplant the use of animals as a motive power. The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know It remained for a second French revolution, combined with the infatuation of English tories, to supply the motive power which converted a party cry into a national demand for justice. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) The essence of a genius is that almost any one of a dozen passions can be made the motive power of his learning. The Lost Art of Reading All the inventions in creation are not worth anything if your own soul has no motive power and no track to run on. The High Calling As in the case of the steamship, however, Pg. 148the indispensable steam engine of Watt had to furnish the motive power. James Watt The motive power concealed within this agreeable toy was found to be a live rat. James B. Eads This necessary motive power was discovered in steam. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Science is a passion not only in its origin, but in its motive power and in its end. The Lost Art of Reading The motive power of the elevated railroads of New York City is steam, and the quick facilities afforded exceed that of any other country. Shepp's Photographs of the World He could not conceive what was the motive power which caused his nephew thus to thwart and throw him over, standing forward as he did with thousands and tens of thousands in his hand. The Bertrams Their motive power is all wrong and cannot be otherwise; hence their characters, however they may be developed, are all wrong in the sight of God. God's Plan with Men She found herself gaining a consciousness of that peace,—a faith in the care of a Father for His children which was the motive power of Thinkright's life. The Opened Shutters The great motive power of the world is thought. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings The principal trammel which now rests upon the movements of vessels destined to cripple an enemy's commerce—the necessity to renew the motive power, coal, at frequent brief intervals—did not then exist. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 Something in his heart grew cold with pain and horror, and something in his motive power stopped suddenly and halted his feet on the sidewalk in the grade cut below the officers’ barracks. The Search One may be moral, of deep piety, and yet if the motive power of his life is not this love, he is lost, not a real Christian. God's Plan with Men The expansive force of population is, in a sense, the great motive power which moulds the whole social structure; or, rather, it forces together the independent units, and welds them into an aggregate. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill There was nothing new in either the big single propeller fixed to the front of the body, nor in the Gnome engine that afforded motive power. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland He provided his own motive power and used his hypnotic influence only in one direction—that of progress. The Rapids Doubtless moral qualities are of the first rank; they are the motive power of civilization, and constitute the nobleness of the individual; society exists by them alone, and by them alone man is great. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. The boat made its way through the water without motive power, until it grated gently on the sands where Arthur and Merlin were standing. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. A great change has taken place since the time of the deer and beaver: the capitalist has been developed, and has become the motive power. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Whatever may be the scale on which we exercise our creative ability, the motive power must always be desire. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science What was the motive power that impelled the young manhood of Great Britain to this tremendous sacrifice? The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War Behind this whole process of electrification lies the need, created by the Great War, for coal conservation and for a motive power that will speed up production of all kinds. An African Adventure As they approached the shore a barge was seen cleaving the water without visible motive power, and on the barge which was draped all in black were four damsels who wept bitterly. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Plants are stationary mechanisms; they have no need to develop motive power, as animals have, in moving themselves from place to place. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Yet unless it were endowed with motive power, how explain the sudden oddities of its appearances and disappearances? Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World That at length became the dominant thought in his mind, the great motive power of his life. The Day of Judgment The success or failure of the arrangement has not been definitely determined, but whatever the outcome, Laird continued his experiments when he became superintendent of motive power for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1862. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24 There were, however, many improvements still to come, before it could be frankly and fully accepted as the sole motive power. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The horse is used as an immediate source of motive power. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock The development of English manufactures, due largely to the introduction of steam as a motive power, was marked. Historical Essays The oar, with its leverage, its capacity for making the very weight of the crew become a motive power, became in more senses than one the great instrument of progress on the sea. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima This of course had a tendency to elevate me in my own estimation, and was no doubt a motive power to urge me on to success. Twenty Years of Hus'ling It was willing to be raised, but doubtful of the motive power. Mr. Opp It is not merely necessary that its muscles should be large and powerful, its lungs must also admit of deep inspirations of oxygen, whereby the motive power wielded by these muscles may be rapidly generated. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock In order to put them in play a motive power is necessary, for matter of itself cannot produce movement.' Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Electric Railways.—The use of electricity as a motive power has not only revolutionized suburban traffic but it has become a great factor in rural transportation as well. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges It will remain so until we get a better form of motive power, liquid or compressed air, perhaps. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility The Leger had carried two thousand torpedoes and five hundred cylinders of the gases which supplied the motive power. The World Peril of 1910 It is quite evident that a horse fed upon hard grains of oats and wiry fibres of uncut hay or straw must expend no inconsiderable proportion of his motive power in the process of mastication. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock A few years ago the motive power for most manufactures was steam. Diggers in the Earth In the latter part of the nineteenth century copper again reached a high position of importance from the fact that upon it largely depends electric motive power and transportation. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges The motive power for nearly all engines was compressed air. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The Flying Fishes were down in the Solent refitting and filling up with motive power and ammunition preparatory to the general advance on London. The World Peril of 1910 The development of animal motive power is said to be strictly proportionate to the amount of muscular tissue decomposed. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Those who had ridiculed him now sang his praises, and those who had doubted that steam could be used as a motive power were now convinced. Stories Of Georgia The motive power is supplied by a mechanism of my own devising! By Proxy If you construct an engine, and then cram it into a box so narrow and tight that it cannot move, and then crowd on the motive power, what would you expect? Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Help her over the pass," Crosby had whispered—the superintendent of motive power hardly ever spoke aloud—"and she'll buck a headwind like a canvas-back. The Daughter of a Magnate The correspondence between the amount of the motive power of an animal, and the quantity of effete nitrogen excreted from the body, is limited to laboring men and to the lower animals. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock His idea at this time, it seems, was not to construct a steamboat, but merely to convince some of his friends that steam could be used as a motive power. Stories Of Georgia Then let me say, too, that if we love Him, it will be the motive power and spring of all manner of obediences and glad services. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John We turn on the motive power, and it moves at the rate of a mile a minute if we desire it. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch It is plain then that it could be produced by the consumption of motive power, and that it could produce this power. Aether and Gravitation In a general sense we may regard the fat of the animal to be its store of fuel, and its lean flesh to be the source of its motive power. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock This was purchased as being exactly the motive power required. History of the Confederate Powder Works They have motive power, but no directing power. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John But in modern investigation this is distinctly not the case; Darwin's theory, for example, like the undulatory theory, has been a motive power and not an anodyne. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Heat is then simply motive power, or rather motion which has changed its form. Aether and Gravitation For this purpose food is supplied to it, the greater portion of which is consumed in keeping the animal alive, and the rest for the development of its motive power. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Hence, it became desirable to devise methods by which hand labor could be superseded by motive power and machinery; in this I was entirely successful. History of the Confederate Powder Works The one thing which all other summaries of duty lack is motive power to get themselves carried into practice. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Now, as regards motive power, we are entirely dependent on atoms and molecules of the latter kind. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Wherever there is a destruction of motive power, there is at the same time production of heat in quantity exactly proportional to the quantity of motive power destroyed. Aether and Gravitation In order to render fully effective the motive power of the horse, it is absolutely necessary to pay attention to the condition, as well as to the quantity and quality of his nutriment. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock |
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