Sentences with phrase «many mechanical devices»

Many agricultural - technology entrepreneurs are farmers who've taken to their garages or workshops to build mechanical devices that solve common agrarian problems.

Aircraft designers are keenly interested in the whale's flippers, for they realize that aircraft would evidently need fewer wing flaps or other mechanical devices to alter airflow.

Gravity does not «hate» you when you plunge to the pavement after jumping from a 20 - story building (unaided by mechanical devices).

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

While the article wove together a few strands from the common law, it largely built its case for such a right on «recent inventions and business methods» such as «instantaneous photographs and... numerous mechanical devices [that] threaten to make good the prediction that «what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house - tops.

Because of the nature of the many mechanical devices that are part of the ICU, many patients have one or more of their limbs restrained.

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

I would bet 100 % conformity on the belief that if one jumps from a 30 - story building, unaided by mechanical devices, that one would go splat and be killed.

If the fluid is stirred slowly by a mechanical device (so that there is no diffusion) the droplet is eventually drawn into a fine thread that is distributed throughout the whole system in such a way that it is no longer even visible to the eye.

«O» also has been trained in using the calf jack — a mechanical device used to assist in deliveries.

I mean, it's a pretty safe assumption that until you start breastfeeding, you've never been hooked up to a mechanical device designed to expel liquid from your boobs.

The blanket features fine openwork pattern that can only be knitted using a small number of mechanical devices on Disana's production line.

The fine openwork pattern can only be knitted using a small number of mechanical devices on the Disana family's production line.

With each new model year, the automobile becomes less a collection of mechanical devices and more a sophisticated network of computers linked to one another and to the Internet.

Although such measurements have been performed in much larger scale systems, the latest results were achieved within a micrometer - sized waveguide — a thin wire that guides light — and demonstrated the use of optical torque to induce rotational motion in a microscale mechanical device.

«In a way, one must learn to see things from the molecules» point of view, considering forces such as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device.»

Imagine a single particle, only one - tenth the diameter of a bacterium, whose miniscule jiggles induce sustained vibrations in an entire mechanical device some 50 times larger.

They also had in order to make the contest as fair as possible, contestants and Jeopardy! have to click a little button in order to buzz in, because they didn't want to give Watson an unfair advantage of just being able to electronically signal, they actually built a mechanical button clicker that Watson will then have to trigger and then that mechanical device would have to come down on the button to give us the same amount of delay as the real contestants have.

This technique was then implemented on a micron - scale mechanical device in Schwab's low - temperature laboratory at Caltech.

A mechanical device using the vacuum system, which incorporates the reduced - oxygen method, has been successfully tested on zebra mussels in the laboratory; in November 1996, it too was granted a U.S. Patent (# 5,578,116).»

The effect only works when the mirror is moving through a vacuum at nearly the speed of light — which is almost impossible for everyday mechanical devices.

The researchers are also working on printing an actuator, a simple mechanical device.

Engineer Herman Hollerith won a government competition for a mechanical device to tabulate the 1890 census.

Now of course how he did it, I mean he wasn't ashamed of telling people, like, «Look, it's a mechanical device.

Robots and other mechanical devices have traditionally lacked that open - endedness.

«Perhaps the mechanical device's biggest advantage is that it is not a leech,» she remarks.

«We are rewriting all the books on how mechanical devices work,» says Dorey.

Since the earliest days of the space programme, mechanical devices on spacecraft have appeared to be well within the state of the art.

In the past, Bensmaia said, this classification system has been supported by experiments using mechanical devices to elicit one or more of these specific components of touch.

Ever since Archimedes made an ingenious mechanical device to demonstrate the motions of the sun, moon, and planets, visionary sky watchers have developed increasingly elaborate tools for creating the illusion of seeing the universe from new vantage points.

Although similar mechanical devices have been built in the past to assist in gait therapy, these were bulky and had to be kept tethered to a power source.

Before iPads and PC's, a computer was a human being who carried out calculations by hand or with the aid of mechanical devices.

However there is a limit to how far you can go with a mechanical device — moving parts such as motors can physically only get so small.

«These used to be big, expensive, mechanical devices, but using MEMS technology, accelerometers have shrunk down onto a single chip, which can be manufactured for just a few dollars apiece.»

Abstract: Imagine a single particle, only one - tenth the diameter of a bacterium, whose miniscule jiggles induce sustained vibrations in an entire mechanical device some 50 times larger.

The term «robot» tends to be applied to mechanical devices with or without autonomous intelligence.

In the end, however, Olshansky said people's bodies are not much different from other mechanical devices.

This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart.

As a mechanical engineer, she designs, develops, builds and tests mechanical devices.

(A mechanical engineer is someone who uses physics and materials science to design, develop, build and test mechanical devices.)

Because there are a few options of devices to use for injections, from the traditional syringe and vial to auto - mechanical devices, detailed instructions for administration will be given by the doctor depending on the device to be used (also included will be instructions for reconstituting the medication and storage of it between injections).

Rough texture shell is Black and they can not be opened without some mechanical device.

Of course, there are other mechanical devices that promise us a beach - ready body, the only problem is, the obstacle of clawing over the other gym - goers to get to these fantastic contraptions.

An electrical or mechanical device may be used to help provide auditory or visual feedback on how well or poorly you are using your muscles.

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But the day he discovers another mechanical device has come to visit his dump, the little robot gets stars in his eyes.

As Hugo tries to unlock the secrets of the automaton, Georges» ward Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz, Kick - Ass) becomes his partner in crime, and soon they discover there is much more to the mystery of this mechanical device than it would first appear.

Early in the game the player gains access to a laser pointer, a tool that manipulates mechanical devices as well as the brains of mind - controlled workers.

Disguised as cars, machinery and every other mechanical device imaginable, these alien creatures have been living on our planet since ancient times.

The electro - mechanical device may look simple, even primitive compared to today's technologies.