To ensure this, Hurley devised an automatic arrangement, so that an electric bell was set ringing whenever a current was passing; the night-watchman would then note the fact in the log-book.
The Lucas Automatic Sounding Machine was situated on the port side of the forecastle head.
Since RM&S had their hands full and also had expected an automatic renewal of their lease, there weren't too many politic smiles when I broke the news.
We now had to kill the automatic ID on the outer door and put it on manual.
They can't stop the process, since it's always set up to be automatic after a certain percentage of stock has been acquired.
Roger turned from the automatic food dispenser and stared at a wizened little man standing beside him, grinning up at him toothlessly.
The Polaris was on automatic control, and everyone was assembled in the messroom.
He pulled the tiny ship up to one thousand feet, leveled off, set the automatic pilot, and took his first close look at Tara, four and a half light years from Earth.
Put the ship on automatic flight, attack-approach pattern number three.
Yes, sir," was Tom's automatic answer, and then he caught himself.
In his mind, he saw Loring setting the trigger on the bomb, adjusting the controls, setting the automatic pilot, and then pressing the acceleration button.
Now try out the automatic blowers for the main tubes!
GOOD SPORT: A man whose soul is equipped with automatic lubrication.
A small, magical, automatic hinge that can swing the doors of Chance in any direction.
So intent were the Hun airmen upon their task of scattering the little flotilla that they failed to notice the danger until the seaplane opened fire with her automatic gun.
The sense of discipline overcame the midshipman's almost automatic inclination to grip whatever came nearest to hand.
In his excitement Oberfurst fingered the sensitive trigger of his automatic pistol, remembering only just in time that even the slightest touch was sufficient to fire the weapon.
At the end of five minutes the buoy was drawn under the surface and taken on board the "U" boat again, by means of an automatic winding machine and a system of "air lock" doors.
He withdrew the firearm, to find that it was a powerful weapon of the automatic type.
It did not explode, so he shot him with an automatic revolver, an American Browning.
Von Herrnung was himself armed with a Browning automatic pistol.
I had one cartridge left in my automatic revolver, and not a single bomb with which to return the compliments of the German's mitraille.
Automatic expressions, instinctive overflowings of emotion into motor channels, like the cry of pain or the shout of joy, are not aesthetic.
The reader who is unacquainted with physiology will thus be enabled to appreciate the better these marvellous devices, far more marvellous, by reason of their absolutely automatic action, than any creation of human hands.
Automatic machinery is now used in large gasworks for both operations.
It plays an especially important part in telephonic installations to draw the attention of the subscribers, forms an item in automatic fire and burglar alarms, and is a necessary adjunct of railway signalling cabins.
An interesting detail of the system is the automatic regulation of air-pressure in the main reservoir by the air-pump governor (Fig.
By working a number of automatic transmitters through a distributer, a thousand words or more per minute are easily dispatched over a single wire.
Nor must we forget that it is aided by an automatic "stop," the iris, the central hole of which is named the pupil.
Automatic electric printers of some kind or other are to be found in the vestibules of all the principal hotels and clubs of our large cities, and in the offices of bankers, stockbrokers, and newspaper editors.
By means of Wheatstone's automatic transmitter the rate can be increased to 400 words per minute.
I am making what I call the Missouri Pacific and Strasburg Cathedral Automatic Wonder, with the Golden Ark of the Covenant.
The knife was slashing cigar-boxes to pieces at railway speed when the reporter opened up with: "Are you the man who makes anautomatic world's fair and St. Louis Exposition with a knife?
The gray suit you can easy cut down fur Luke, there--" She droned on, the other woman making dry automatic sounds of assent.
Reels of the automatic persuasion have not received the unstinted approbation of anglers.
His automatic could shoot six times before I could swing that thing on him once.
With his automatic pistol still covering Ford, Prothero spoke to Pearsall.
The automatic creature is subject to the laws of its construction, you perceive.
The secret of Captain Baskelett's art would seem to be to show the automatic human creature at loggerheads with a necessity that winks at remarkable pretensions, while condemning it perpetually to doll-like action.
Brodie's hand dived into a pocket, and he produced a particularly vicious looking automatic pistol.
He it was who opened the fray, and the peace of the night was suddenly disrupted by the loud bark of an automatic pistol.
If the island were still on automatic it would be forced to go around the entire nation," said Green.
As long as this island was on automatic it couldn't pass those inhibitories.
He'd been a passenger on a freighter when it had unaccountably blown up, and he'd been forced to leave the dying vessel in one of those automatic castaway emergency shells.
There was a sound of clambering feet, and as his acute hearing caught it, a sort of instinct thrust his hand into his coat pocket where an automatic pistol lay.
The automatic smile on his face had broadened noticeably, and Ruxton felt that now, at least, it was inspired.
For he had taken the bow seat, and his loaded automatic was in his pocket still.
As he sat he swayed gently to the motion of the vessel, and for the first time became aware of the automatic change to artificial light in the room.
Automatic Destination Detector--and other refinements of instrumental installations of the passenger ships, Pilot O'Malley had to work out his position for himself.
An autocratic minority ruled in Germany, anautomatic majority rules in France and England.
Has anyone ever witnessedautomatic acting that left a profound impression?
It is purely automaticin its operation, requiring only two men to work it.
The new teacher then unlocked his alligator-skin grip, and took out a Bible and a new self-cocking weepon that had an automatic dingus for throwing out the empty shells.
She asked me in a low, musical voice to please destroy the deed, and then she took one of them Smith & Wesson automatic advance agents of death out from under her apron and kind of wheedled me into saying I would.
But one day the under-sheriff served his patent automatic warrant on a young man who refused to come down.
The speed of the work was dependent upon the operative, as he determined by his lever movement the instant at which the automatic serrating hammer should be released.
But the results in this case and in other similar experiments which I carried on showed that the new automatic connection did not extinguish the after effects of the previous habit.
The same selection could be useful in the opposite direction, as many economic occupations, especially in our time of automatic machines, demand a quick and often rhythmical transition from one activity to another.
Young people, to whom, in spite of long trial and the best will, it seems impossible to supply certain automatic machines, become excellent workers at much more difficult labor in the same establishment.
Nevertheless he succeeded in moving a lever on an automatic machine which stood near by whenever a certain wheel had made fifty revolutions.
Only when this new habit has been made automatic by a training of several months can he advance to a level at which whole groups of words are perceived as telegraphic units.
In that serious difficulty automatic pumps, controlled by an electrical device, at once began forcing out the water.
There were automatic devices in the various control cabins, as well as in the main engine room, which told instantly if a leak had been sprung in any part of the craft.
The command, though low, was uttered in a tone of deadly menace, and Dorothy saw the blue-black muzzle of an automaticrevolver pointed at her heart.
Her right hand gave a quick twist and Martin Lawson dropped the exploding automatic with a scream of mingled rage and pain.
She knew that he was doing the only thing he could to save her life, so she kept right on staring in front of her without moving, while the Chinaman held the automatic within a foot of her head.
Dorothy fired three shots from Lawson's automatic into the lock.
Give us each an automatic and I'll wager that there isn't a combination in this neck of the woods strong enough to do us up.
Give 'em each anautomatic and they're worth twenty ordinary men.
As the card falls, it is tilted into place against the pile of preceding cards, an automatic receiver holding them together, the operator clearing away the pile from each division as it becomes full.
The tabulating process is completed by an automatic recording and printing system, somewhat along the stock ticker plan, connected with each dial.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "automatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
