The earth current suffices to actuatethe bells, but, in order to effect a call, the inventor is obliged to run them continuously and to interrupt them at the moment at which he wishes to communicate.
This machine, which is 2 meters in length by 1 meter in width, requires a one-third horse power to actuate it.
In order to actuate such an apparatus, it was necessary to have a motor that was possessed of great elasticity, and that nevertheless presented no complications incompatible with the application that was to be made of it.
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other.
It is difficult to conceive what preposterous principles can actuate men, to induce them to such a mode of decision.
Let us then not talk but with great deference and humility; with great tenderness and charity; with great thankfulness to the author of every good gift,--when we speak of the different systems that actuate the Christian World.
But if these are the things which actuate men in their service of God and man, can it be legitimately said that the Christian motive is pure and disinterested?
On the contrary, merely correct action may be ethically worthless, and conduct obtains its moral value from the motives or intentions which actuate and determine it.
Many expedients were indeed tried by this industrious tribe, of whom some were making themselves wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
As these currents arrive they actuate a pencil, similarly furnished with levers, so that it moves in a path which exactly corresponds with that of the sending pencil.
Every reservoir aboard a long train in rapid motion may at the same instant, by a touch from the engine-runner, actuate the brakes so as to stop the train in the shortest possible time.
It is well toactuate these extinguishing-lighters, which may be located at a distance, not by a contact button, but by some pulling arrangement, which is always much more easy to find in the dark without much groping about.
Only suppose that nation to possess the same feelings which actuate every breast in this House; which actuate the American people.
This was done without impeding the motion of the compass card by causing an electric spark to jump from a light pointer on the card to a series of metal plates round the bowl of the compass, and actuate an electric alarm.
Such an electromagnet is a more powerful device than a swinging needle, and better able to actuate a mechanism.
The first two are based on a method of varying the strength of the current in accordance with the curves of the handwriting, and making the varied current actuate by means of magnetism a writing pen or stylus at the distant station.
We can turn inward, and contemplate the motives which govern, and the views which actuate us.
Now we often wonder at things done by our fellow men--are unable to discover the motives which actuate them--perhaps frequently mistake them.
MY DEAR SIR, Every liberal motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours, concurs in directing me to you, as the person to whom the following Work should be inscribed.
F is a disk rotated from the driving mechanism of the shaping machine, and having a [T]-shaped slot G G, in which is secured a pin to actuate the rod E.
The first usually employ fly ball governors which actuate cams or stops to trip the valves for the steam cylinders.
He was void of any of these feelings which actuate men to do good.
But he was perhaps equally void of those which actuate men to do evil.
He talked to them without putting out all his powers, and listened to them without any idea that what he should hear from them could either actuate his conduct or influence his opinion.
The heart is so very strange in its vagaries, and the reasons and causes which actuate it are so curious and varied, that it is impossible to discover all the hidden springs that set it in motion.
Whatever inconveniency may attend the democratic principle, it must actuate one part of the Gov^t.
If this policy should still actuatethe small States, the large ones cou'd not confederate safely with them; but would be obliged to consult their safety by confederating only with one another.
If for any reason, therefore, the movement of the control switch should fail to actuate the main switch, the indicator lamp will not be lighted.
It enters more into common life; moulds the heart and affections; and, by touching those principles which actuate men, reforms their conduct, and brings them nearer to that model of perfection which it describes.
Here he is as much conscious of power to command such limbs, as a man in perfect health is conscious of power to actuate any member which remains in its natural state and condition.
If the body that you actuate be not the very body that I see there, but some duplicate body of your own with which that has nothing to do, we belong to different universes, you and I, and for me to speak of you is folly.
That body of yours which you actuate and feel from within must be in the same spot as the body of yours which I see or touch from without.
The motives that determine the voluptuary, that actuate the debauchee to risk their health, are as powerful, their actions are as necessary, as those which decide the wise man to manage his.
