It is the function of the state to provide port facilities in the form of docks, piers, warehouses, grain elevators, mechanical equipment, etc.
Peter Cooper's mechanical mind saw that higher buildings would demand mechanical lifts, and so he provided a special elevator-shaft.
Men who seldom or never before labored with their hands devoted themselves to agriculture and the mechanical arts with a zeal which was at least commendable, though not always well directed.
Each man is a part of it and each part's greatest ambition is to respond to the shouted word of command as a mechanical puppet responds to the touch of a spring.
Mechanical invention is discouraged, except as it assists astronomy.
It contained every facility for his various new designs, and in it he anticipated many advances in electrical science and in mechanical devices, which have made the civilization of our day so remarkable.
There are no mechanical modes of propulsion in the streets of the City of Light.
Electrical science and its application is understood, great stores of mechanical experience and wisdom can be drawn on, and yet in most of the mechanical work, hand work, the toilsome method of the Pharaohs of Egypt prevails.
Beating, beating, beating upon my brain substance this ceaselessly reiterated mechanical language, it will become so incorporated, that even in the surviving mind I shall find its traces and be able to use it.
In this house we were received by the Superintendent of Quarries, a supernatural, who still retained a mechanical aptitude, brought with him from the earth.
In modern art our mechanical advantages and facilities are so great that we are always carrying the method and manner of one art over the frontier of another.
Mr. Klug reluctantly and protestingly followed his mechanical idea, a logical application of the pneumatic principle, as he made it plain by sketches and demonstration on the machine.
With a mechanical curiosity, Wallingford glanced into the case where a box of cigars with cheap blue bands was displayed.
It is not likely that the crafts, with all their mechanical skill, will ever again produce a work of such artistic perfection.
Statues, cartouches and ornamental medallions relieve the paneled surfaces of the stonework, the masonry of which has been laid and jointed with the utmost conceivable mechanical skill.
In one of his reports the State Mineralogist of California gives a most lucid description of a mechanical assay of gold-bearing sands, stamped ore, etc.
Mechanical skill is required to properly design and construct a dredge, and the care of a competent mechanic is necessary to see that the machine is kept in order and economically operated.
These intrusions, almost infinitely varied in form and condition, are often, in fact usually, inexplicable as mechanical problems, but their reality is vouched for by the evidence of our senses.
Professor Mallet suggested that the source of heat for these local areas of melted rocks was to be found in the enormous mechanicalforce that is developed by the crushing of the strata in the earth's crust.
The society inaugurating these fairs is known as the Rappahannock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical Society, and its annual fairs have been a great success.
Having now our foundation laid, the rest of the work was plain, straightforward building, in which there was no special mechanical difficulty.
I am convinced that before long we shall be lighting our streets with electricity and using it in a thousand ways as a mechanical power.
The later Italian marquetry does not lose decorative effect though the figure drawing becomes very conventional, and the curves of ornament are often cut with a mechanical sweep.
The base of his system was animal magnetism, which could be superinduced or aided by mechanical appliances.
Footnote: The many-sided genius of Leonardo devised a system of little spoons with which different colours were to be used, thus creating a kind of mechanical harmony.
But by far the most interesting part of the museum is the cabinet of Peter himself, consisting of a suite of apartments, in which the old Czar was in the habit of passing his leisure hours engaged in some mechanical employment.
The whole business of the country is in the hands of the Jews, and all the useful and mechanical arts are practised by strangers.
Sundry mechanical contrivances and improvements in philosophical apparatus have been exhibited at the scientific gatherings of the present season in London, attracting more or less of attention, according to their merits and utility.
The ladders, the torch-light, the mechanical difficulty of the operation, again reminded me of one of those great depositions in which the actual scene of the Cross is so vividly brought out by art.
The muscles of my arms and shoulder may operate on mechanicalprinciples in raising my arm when I will to raise it; but on what mechanical, chemical, or electric principles do I will to raise it?
It reaches to the springs of action, and gives to the most mechanical toil the dignity of a divine service.
Mechanical Work MARCH 15 "Miss Keane took but little heed of the presence of Rachel and Hester in her brother's house.
For my own part, if it could be proved that by no possible means could a given bad passage be traversed without some such aid, nor turned by another route, I should not hesitate to adopt any mechanical means to the desired end.
I had always aimed to be trustworthy; and feeling a high degree of mechanical pride, I had aimed to do my work with dispatch and skill, my blacksmith's pride and taste was one thing that had reconciled me so long to remain a slave.
There is the popularity of the author to be considered; the subject of the book; the mechanical features; the price; and the publisher's name and standing.
Well, then, what are some of thesemechanical rules of construction?
The mechanical principle employed in the Adams press for exerting a flat, parallel pressure has now been generally adopted for heavy stamping and embossing presses.
This frame is mounted horizontally on a slide, which by an ingenious mechanical movement brings any one of the two hundred and twenty-five matrices over what is termed the mould.
Those expecting "the best" at "the lowest price" can easily guess about how much of this high-priced finishing they will get when the price paid barely covers the cost of the mechanical product.
They went on year after year under the supervision of a corps of gifted mechanical experts, the chief of whom was John R.
The local increase of the circulation incident to properly applied mechanical movements, must produce a corresponding diminution of blood in other, even in remote, regions of the body.
When the colon is distended, it becomes a mechanical impediment to the free circulation of the blood in other organs, and causes congestion of the portal system, predisposing to chronic inflammation or cirrhosis of the liver.
Three modes of applying this operation by the mechanical apparatus are in use, effected by the Direct, the Rotary, and the Revolving Kneader.
Deformities are easily cured without the cutting of tendons, or use of mechanical supports.
In addition to this, our method of treatment by "vitalization," and by mechanical movements and manipulations, is almost indispensable in these cases.
Although we can, on paper, give but a meagre idea of the variety and adaptability of these valuable mechanical appliances, yet we will endeavor to illustrate and explain a few of our machines for the application of transmitted motion.
Retention is effected by wearing a mechanical appliance called a truss.
Habitual constipation produces many derangements, resulting from sympathy, irritation, or mechanical obstruction.
The assertion that life is due to chemical and mechanical processes alone is quite unjustified.
The amount of energy required to build up a molecule of any degree of complexity is very great, and it is {72} by the breaking down of complex molecules into simple ones that all our mechanical work is done.
It was to the action of this universal substance that he imagined the "monistic mechanical process" to be due.
Elsewhere he suggested that it may belong to "a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will as these transcend mechanical motion.
According to the Report on Negro Education, few of the agricultural and mechanical schools maintained partly by the Federal land grants and partly by the States are really efficient.
An agricultural and mechanical college for men was founded at the old home of John C.
Speaking broadly, the right of the negro to work at any sort of manual ormechanical labor is not questioned in the South.
Some raise enormous masses with imperceptible cables, and by mechanical processes analogous to those which were employed in removing and rearing the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde.
One is overcome with surprise by the infinite variety of the combinations designed for this end, the numerous mechanical and chemical arts of the most complicated character.
