| 单词 | self-acting |
| 例句 | It said the bump stock device functions as “a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that allows the firing of multiple rounds through a single pull of the trigger.” Supreme Court agrees to rule on whether AFT can ban rapid-fire 'bump stocks' 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z He invented a self-acting machine, worked by a stream of water-drops, for accumulating electric charges, on the principle of the revolving doubler. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Children and young persons may not be allowed to work between the fixed and traversing parts of a self-acting machine while the machine is in motion. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z The self-acting lathe, or engine lathe, implying that there is a slide rest actuated automatically to traverse the tool to its cut or feed. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The outflow passes into another vessel known as a flush-tank, where it accumulates until it reaches the summit of a self-acting siphon. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z One of the most important inventions in connexion with the hosiery trade was the latch, tumbler, or self-acting needle invented by Matthew Townsend and David Moulding of Leicester in 1858. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Besides devising numerous useful forms of galvanometers and other electrical instruments of precision, Werner Siemens was one of the discoverers of the principle of the self-acting dynamo. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z There were no skilled workmen to be had, no self-acting tools, as in our day, and so the first model was only partly successful. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z It differs from a common stop valve in being weighted, and therefore self-acting. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z But we must be sure we have made him a man,—self-acting, guided by reasoned proof, and one who, as Archbishop Whately said, "believes the principles he maintains, and maintains them because he believes them." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z This needle is self-acting, in that it is made to draw its own loop, sinkers being dispensed with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z 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 The eye is a physical, but not a self-acting apparatus, and in general it sees only what it seeks. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The self-acting feed for the drill spindle is actuated by an eccentric on that spindle operating an arm, having a pawl engaging with the ratchet wheel on the lower end of the vertical feed spindle. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Papists, whether foreigners or Americans, are, even in the United States, little better than living automatons and self-acting tools, for the corrupt agents of his royal holiness, the Pope. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z There are my plans for a self-acting syphon. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Here the Grail, the chalice of the Last Supper, is at the same time, as in the Gawain stories, self-acting and food-supplying. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Thus, this mode of teaching sorted out its auditory by a self-acting mechanism. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z In this machine the work-holding table is provided with a hand feed, and the drilling or boring spindle with hand and self-acting feed, the latter being variable to suit different kinds of work. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The leading exhibitor in the line of self-acting lathes, planing, slotting, drilling and boring machines was J. Whitworth & Co., of Manchester, England. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Faculties which are thoroughly self-acting are generally bold and radical. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z She apparently experienced entrancement to absolute unconsciousness, so that she became, for the time being, literally a tool—no more self-acting, and therefore no more responsible, than a pen, a pencil, or a speaking-trumpet. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z The machine was on its finishing round; three seconds more, and the self-acting steam-valve has shut, the engine slows up to a stop, and its builder, with a quickened pulse, bends eagerly forward. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z Next to the hand slide rest lathe comes the self-acting or engine lathe. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Immediately Bessemer made plans of all the machinery required, sent various parts to as many different establishments, lest his secret be found out, and then put the pieces of his self-acting machines together. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Clausius also gave us the extremely important principle: It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided, to transfer heat from one body at a low temperature to another having a higher temperature. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z If the proper study of mankind be man,—which, of course, includes woman,—we are throwing a precious deal of time away on centrifugal pumps, sewing-machines, and self-acting razors. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z In modern times, very few philosophers have ventured to solve the whole problem of the universe by any self-acting, self-producing power in nature. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The lathe has an elevating slide rest self-acting feed traverse and self-acting cross feed, both feeds being operative in either direction. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z This is a self-acting bell-punch, and it will ring whenever you say “Oh, dear!” The Joyous Story of Toto 2011-02-16T03:00:35.520Z He proposed self-acting and continuous systems of brake, and considered a good system of brake of so great importance, that he advocated their compulsory introduction by State legislation. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z Spinning.—Two systems of spinning are in use at the present time, ring spinning and self-acting mule spinning. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z One does not have a plain candlestick: the candle is enclosed in a glass cylinder, and is furnished with a self-acting extinguisher. Household Organization Thus the self-acting tool feed may take place vertically or across the work table at will by simply placing the pinion upon the cross-feed screw or upon the feed rod, as the case may be. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The lock was a self-acting one, but Bob was apt to be careless. Deep Moat Grange We have considered, on a former page, that we are not to look for the self-acting individuals among the workingmen as a class. The Holy Earth Their lien upon the State may have its origin in horses, or anything else; for the State buys anything vendible, from Abdul Rahman's most promising importations to a patent, self-acting corkscrew. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The seventh and last door is that of my dressing-room, which is fitted with a peculiar self-acting lock, a new invention. Black Diamonds The latter, however, have lost most of their former importance in the practice of the machine shop, by reason of the employment of self-acting lathes. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z We hear that an ingenious mechanic at Ipswich has invented a machine to perform perpetual motion, which is described as "self-acting after being put in motion by a screw." Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) If we are to have self-acting men they must be removed from close control, in labor as well as elsewhere. The Holy Earth Although numerous changes have since been made in the self-acting mule, the machine still bears indelible marks of the genius of Roberts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" At first one is tempted to believe that they are self-acting and self-regulating, that they move freely and pass from one state to another according to causes within themselves. Naturalism And Religion The drill spindle is provided with variable rates of self-acting feed, but may also be moved rapidly by hand, and is counterbalanced. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z He's got one o' these self-acting mouths, with a perpetual-motion attachment. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys This is a self-acting weighing machine, which, with unerring precision, tells which sovereigns are of standard weight, and which are light, and of its own accord separates the one from the other. Old and New London Volume I Up this morning at three, coupled my self-acting gear to the break, and had the satisfaction of seeing it pay out the last four miles in very good style. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 In most cases the air is best admitted through the windows, fitted with fanlights falling backwards from the top, and extracted by a powerful self-acting exhaust at the ceiling level. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction It is provided with the usual self-acting feed motion and also with a compound slide rest. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Both the wandering stars and the fixed stars are 'animate beings, divine and eternal', self-acting subordinate gods. Five Stages of Greek Religion There is not, indeed, the self-acting check which convertibility brings with it. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy Here come now into action those most beautiful and ingenious applications of mechanical principles, the working out of which entailed so many years of arduous effort, and which rendered the mule practically self-acting and automatic. The Story of the Cotton Plant Behind were six fire-flies, well supplied with self-acting lamps, which they kept hidden somewhere under their wings. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan There is a separate set of change wheels for each saddle, so arranged as to cut standard pitches up to 3-inch pitch, and for self-acting feeds down to 50 per inch. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Economic society, to be organized successfully, must be built of units that will prove self-acting and self-directing in all matters of purely local concern. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation Better so; the principle of self-government as the self-acting, self-preserving force will be asserted by the total eclipse of great or even eminent men. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Among these names must certainly be placed, ahead of any others that might be named, that of Richard Roberts of Manchester, who succeeded in 1830, after about five years' application, in making the mule self-acting. The Story of the Cotton Plant Those who operate machinery nearly self-acting are operatives. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Slide rests for self-acting or engine lathes are divided into seven kinds, termed respectively as follows: simple, or single, elevating, weighted, gibbed, compound, duplex, and duplex compound. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The units of which the economic system is composed must therefore be self-motivating and self-acting. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation He passed into another spasm, opening and shutting like a self-acting jack-knife. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse It was true about the eau-de-Cologne, for Rosalind, with a self-acting instinct that explanation might be called for, had picked up the bottle on her return journey. Somehow Good It is a self-acting pump of the impulse type, in which force is suddenly applied and discontinued, these periodical applications resulting in the lifting of water. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) The carriage traverse is self-acting and has three changes of feed, by means of the feed cones shown. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The automobile is not self-acting, like the body or like society, but the failure of one of its essential parts like the ignition system, means the failure of the whole machine. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation “Mind is a self-acting substance,” says he; “and hence its activity and independence.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory At the same time he suggested, as an additional means of safety, that the signals of the line should be self-acting, and worked by the locomotives as they passed along the railway. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Further self-acting inclines to lower cars to the levels can sometimes be installed to advantage. Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration But Nägelsbach's stress is almost wholly on the side of the Gods, he seems to have the smallest vision for beholding the free, self-acting man in Homer. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Advancing knowledge pushed them back till nature, "rid of her haughty lords," is conceived as a huge mechanism, self-acting, self-adjusting, and self-repairing. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative If it can, then it is a prime mover which requires only healthy regulation to render it reasonably self-acting, and there is no apparent need of your immortal reason at all. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 “I believe,” he said, “that if self-acting brakes were put upon every carriage, scarcely any accident could take place.” Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Question.—What advantage to the employer is the self-acting stoker for steam boilers? The Stoker's Catechism It conveys to its recipient no self-acting machinery which, without lubricant or engineer will reel off success or impress mankind, as a matter of course. A Broader Mission for Liberal Education Baccalaureate Address, Delivered in Agricultural College Chapel, Sunday June 9, 1901 It is these automatic, self-acting complexes which originate many of the disorders of the mind. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Indeed, the man who took us about told me that the self-acting mule of to-day, founded on the invention of Crompton, is a product of hundreds of minds and I can well believe it. Carl and the Cotton Gin On the original Hetton line, there were five self-acting inclines,—the full waggons drawing the empty ones up,—and two inclines worked by fixed reciprocating engines of sixty horse power each. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Question.—But are not these "self-acting stokers" smoke consumers as well? The Stoker's Catechism The self-acting door shut her out with a bang of contemptuous mockery, and the poor ladies were once more left alone in their misery. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Really, I must get introduced to her, and show her the self-acting fire-extinguisher I have just invented. Fighting the Flames They told me it was Richard Roberts, a Manchester man, who in 1830 improved the self-acting mule and brought it to its present state of practical working order. Carl and the Cotton Gin This was one of the first self-acting inclines laid down in the district. p. 62Stephenson had now much better opportunities than hitherto for improving himself in mechanics. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The spindles are fitted with self-acting motions O 1 and O 2, which are easily thrown in and out of gear. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught It is instinct now—self-acting, deep, and unconscious. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day This tube has a self-acting valve, which closes when the sap has reached the proper height in the pan, and opens again when it has been lowered by boiling. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 But courts are not self-acting institutions, and they are not engaged in academic discussions of abstractions. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time He won the women’s admiration by connecting their cradles with the smoke-jack, and making them self-acting. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Like a waiting-room it is furnished with chairs and tables, and like a cell its door is provided with a strong, self-acting lock. The Grell Mystery The self-emptying principle was accomplished by the introduction of six self-acting valves into the bottom of the boat, through which the water, when shipped, ran back into the sea! The Lifeboat The self-acting discharging tubes emptied it in less than two minutes; and the crew, supported by their cork life-belts, caught the life-lines festooned round the boat’s side for this very purpose, and clambered into her. Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman One man turned a handle at the breech, another kept supplying the self-acting cartridge-box. In the Track of the Troops Pipes from these tuns communicate with a couple of small reservoirs, each of them provided with half-a-dozen self-acting syphon taps, by means of which a like number of bottles are simultaneously filled. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines "Lucretius built a system for himself in his poem ... it has a professed practical aim—to explain the world's self-acting machine to the polytheist, and to disabuse him of all spiritual ideas." The Faith of Islam The place was peopled partly by persons of his choice, and partly by a sort of self-acting magic rather difficult to explain. The Magic City This work of decrepitude is, in some sort, self-acting. Napoleon the Little The line is worked by Morse instruments, usually direct from Chicago to Salt Lake, Hicks's self-acting repeaters being kept in the circuit at Omaha and Fort Laramie. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 The first wire machine that Washburn ever saw was arranged with a pair of self-acting pincers which drew a foot of wire and then had to let go and take a fresh hold. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money A self-acting window, which shall expand with the opening of light in the mornings and evenings, and close up of its own accord as the light increases toward noon, has never been manufactured by man. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity He points out that "the old village community was organized and self-acting," and "possessed a body of officers and servants which made it independent of outside help." The Customs of Old England Public worship, reduced to liturgical ceremonies, no longer preserved anything which appealed to the intelligence; it was more and more becoming a sort of self-acting magic formula. Life of St. Francis of Assisi This center together with the nerves and muscles in question form an automatic, or self-acting, mechanism similar in some respects to that of the heart. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Let the representative be a tongue-bound deputy, and not a free, manly, self-acting agent. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Private capitalism is, in this respect, self-acting, and acts with absolute accuracy, because wage-capital being divided into a multitude of independent reservoirs, its waste at any one point brings about its own remedy. A Critical Examination of Socialism The work of these self-acting muscles is very wonderful indeed. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene And since self-acting mules have been introduced into a very large number of spinning-mills, the spinners’ work is wholly performed by the machine. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Where the birds are plenty and easily captured, the former method answers the purpose perfectly, but when tedious waiting is likely to ensue the self-acting trap is better. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making It was then a notable place of entertainment consisting of gardens with an orchestra, and the ‘Grecian Saloon,’ which was furnished with an organ and a ‘self-acting piano.’ Charles Dickens and Music A self-acting apparatus, of ingenious construction, kept the confined atmosphere sweet and healthy by manufacturing pure oxygen and absorbing carbonic acid. All Around the Moon These magistrates still continued self-acting judges, deciding and condemning without appeal—not mere presidents of an assembled jury, as they afterward came to be during the next century. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 "And you use her, for that particular public building or historic scene, as a sort of portable, self-acting reference library," remarked poppa. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') He is entirely self-acting, and the wells of his autobiography are as deep as the foundations of the world. Prose Fancies There is a self-acting retribution in our evil passions which never fails to operate. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall The system is, as has been shown above, self-acting. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question All animals were considered as automata—that is, as self-acting machines, moved by a something called instinct, for want of a better name. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn The Mechanical Engineering shops join the forges, and in them will be found many of those beautiful self-acting tools for which this age is so remarkable. Rides on Railways The labor of attending to the wheels was great, for the improvements in spinning machinery that have made it self-acting had not then been introduced. The Personal Life of David Livingstone At frequent intervals are self-acting tide-gates for drainage; these are made of the redwood of the coast, which does not rot in the water. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Up a dark staircase we went, and at the summit were half flung back again by another self-acting door. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories It scorns to rule over dead mechanism, and applies itself alone to the living and self-acting. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English She seems to be provided with an almost self-acting nature. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses It is assumed that the régime of the establishment will be self-acting. Recollections of My Youth The moral of the above tale is upon the surface, apparent, and, so to speak, self-acting—a circumstance which happily obviates the necessity of our discussing it together. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 After all, charity is the true self-acting balance to many a sweet untaught nature. The Three Brides He has lost three of his fingers, through incautiously handling a self-acting rat-trap of his own construction; and had his left eye blown out, while investigating the exact interval between combustion and explosion. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 If there is any risk of the instrument getting broken from fall of materials or other causes, it may be fitted with an ingenious self-acting apparatus shutting off the supply. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Self-dependent, self-acting, and self-taught, it is apprehended that few men, with so little means and few advantages, have been in so peculiar a sense the architect of their own fortunes. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers From the first it followed that the substances were self-acting forces; from the second, that they were immaterial units. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time This self-acting cable key was brought out in 1876, and tried on the lines of the Eastern Telegraph Company. Heroes of the Telegraph Thus William Strutt, the eldest, is said to have invented a self-acting mule, the success of which was only prevented by the mechanical skill of that day being unequal to its manufacture. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance As a mere time-piece, it leaves much to be desired; but, considered as a self-acting conundrum, it is full of interest and variety. Clocks A self-acting apparatus supplied the three travelers with air to breathe. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon It took Watt more than twenty years to elaborate his condensing steam-engine; and since his day, owing to the perfection of self-acting tools, it has been greatly improved. Men of Invention and Industry But it gave an increased stimulus to the demand for self-acting machine tools by which the untrustworthy efforts of hand labour might be avoided. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography That time had now come; and when Mr. Sharp introduced the subject, he said he had turned the matter over and thought he could construct the required self-acting machinery. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Perry & Co.'s paper binders, an article now universally used for fastening together loose papers, cloth patterns, etc., are produced in infinite styles and sizes, principally by self-acting machinery. The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Our light, continuous stream of trains can, therefore, be worked automatically, or managed independently of any guard or driver accompanying the train—in other words, I could arrange a self-acting block for preventing collisions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 He had next tried Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. Men of Invention and Industry I had for some years been supplying foreign customers with self-acting machine tools. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography It was arranged that he should proceed with it at once, and after a close study of four months he brought out the machine now so extensively known as the self-acting mule. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Many people, however, do not appear to understand all that is involved in the second requirement, which runs as follows: In case of accident, to be instantaneously self-acting. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 The machine has a 4 in. steel spindle with self-acting variable feed motion through a range of 10 in., and the radial arm is raised or lowered by power through a range of 2 ft. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Mr. Walter next tried Thomas Martyn, an ingenious young compositor, who had a scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. Men of Invention and Industry They could not possibly go wrong in planing and turning, because they were regulated by perfect self-acting arrangements. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography The same James Fox is also said at a very early period to have invented a screw-cutting machine, an engine for accurately dividing and cutting the teeth of wheels, and a self-acting lathe. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers The instrument is called on to become self-acting, and necessarily acts unwisely. Caesar: a Sketch There, the parting of kinds was either self-acting, as in the case of the foolish maidens; or men gave account of themselves, as in the case of the servants with the talents. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII His beautiful "dividing machine," for marking divisions on the circles, four feet in diameter and altogether self-acting—which divides to five minutes and reads off to five seconds is not the least of his triumphs. Men of Invention and Industry The full and steady influx of prosperity that had been the result of many years of interesting toil and cheerful exertion, had caused the place to assume the aspect of a smoothly working self-acting machine. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Like so many other inventions, the idea of the self-acting mule was not new. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers But see, in this recess with curtained way Is a self-acting shower-bath that you may Try in the morning if you're so inclined. Home Lyrics In wagon boilers this is generally accomplished by self-acting mechanism. A Catechism of the Steam Engine The whole apparatus was almost cylindrical, and watertight, save in the self-acting ventilators, which could only give access to the smallest portion of water. Men of Invention and Industry Besides selecting clever labourers, I made an extensive use of active handy boys to superintend the smaller class of self-acting machine tools. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography The origin of this invention was somewhat similar to that of the self-acting mule. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers I screamed and yelled with pain, My feelings to describe, alas! 'twere vain, In the self-acting shower bath I had stepped. Home Lyrics In this contrivance the fire is replenished with coals by a self-acting mechanism. A Catechism of the Steam Engine Mr. Leone Levi has calculated that to make by hand all the yarn spun in England in one year by the use of the self-acting mule, would take 100,000,000 men. Problems of Poverty One of the results was that I largely increased the number of self-acting machines, and gave a still greater amount of employment to my unbound apprentices. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography In the case of many of our most potent self-acting tools and machines, manufacturers could not be induced to adopt them until compelled to do so by strikes. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers But this self-acting machinery follows not the soldier through his campaigns. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 Q.--Have any other plans been devised for feeding the fire by self-acting means besides that of a revolving grate? A Catechism of the Steam Engine The self-acting apparatus is more complicated, and persons wishing it would do best to apply directly to the Company. American Woman's Home The self-acting arrangement was eventually done away with, and hand-gear again became all but universal. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine, Nasmyth's steam arm, and many others. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers "I'm goin' to get up a cure for seasickness when I have time—a kind of a self-acting, automatic belt—I guess there'd be plenty of money in it." Facing the World Moreover, these little pores, which are shaped like the semi-elliptical springs of a carriage, are self-acting valves. Nature's Serial Story They are made to act either by a handle, as in the ordinary water-closet, or self-acting on rising from the seat. American Woman's Home He was sufficiently acquainted with the technical details of mechanical work to enjoy the sight, especially when self-acting tools were employed. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography One of his earliest self-acting screw lathes, moved by a guide-screw and wheels after the plan followed by the latter engineer, cut screws of large diameter and of any required pitch. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers The eye is a physical but not a self-acting apparatus, and in general it sees only what it seeks. The Earth as Modified by Human Action My universal, self-acting, double compound elixir of equestrian ointment will perform a cure in each and every case. Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery He went to where a self-acting mercurial air- pump was standing on a shelf. The Beetle The self-acting machine tools already possessed the requisite ability to plane, to turn, to polish, and to execute the work when firmly placed in situ. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography One of the important branches of practical mechanics to which Clement continued through life to devote himself, was the improvement of self-acting tools, more especially of the slide-lathe. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers These automatic or self-acting fire-alarms can, of course, be connected in the circuit of the ordinary street fire-alarms, which are usually worked by pulling a handle to make the necessary contact. The Story of Electricity I do not know anything more absolutely and sufficiently opposed to the permission of that self-acting which alone, for you, is evil, than reason. Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success It 's a water-wheel, driving a pump that throws a stream into the race that feeds the water-wheel, so that you use the same water over and over again, and the whole concern's self-acting. Such Is Life Let me turn for a time from the Foundry, the whirr of the self-acting tools, and the sound of the steam hammers, to my quieter pursuits at home. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Mr. William Fairbairn has stated that when he first became acquainted with mechanical engineering, about sixty years ago, there were no self-acting tools; everything was executed by hand. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers And when, in 1787, Edmund Cartwright, clergyman and poet, invented the self-acting loom to which power might be applied, the series was complete. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest I should have been far wiser, I know now, if I had bought one of those ready-made, self-acting, fool- proof medicine chests such as are favoured by fourth-rate ship- masters. The Cruise of the Snark They were supposed by him to be percipient, self-acting beings, not under arbitrary control of the deity, and yet God himself was the original monad from which all the rest are generated. A History of Science — Volume 2 Only a few years had passed, and self-acting tools were now enabled to complete, with precision and uniformity, machines that before had been deemed almost impracticable. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography He was the first to employ clay retorts; and he introduced sulphate of iron as a self-acting purifier, passing the gas through beds of charcoal to remove its oily and tarry elements. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers As I possessed some self-acting tools that were specially suited to execute some of the most refined and important parts of the printing machine, the Messrs. Cowper transferred their execution to me. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Most of my own machine tools were self-acting—planing machines, slide lathes, drilling, boring, slotting machines, and so on. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography As before said, the entire function of this most effective machine tool is self-acting. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography He admired the quality of my work, and the beauty of my self-acting machinery. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography |
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