Inside the case was some sort of a triggermechanism operated by a button on the outside.
That, together with the photo film which carried the Eye's message and was enclosed in the triggermechanism of the novel projector, constituted evidence that would prove that Jack Carlson was the Eye.
He stopped for a moment, listened to make sure nobody was in the next room, then pushed on a boss set in a pattern of bronze protuberances, which was connected with the mechanism that operated the secret door.
Some part of the burning mechanism had gone wrong--as was the custom of mechanisms everywhere.
Vaucauson and took his seat on a species of throne specially prepared for his reception on a raised platform, whence he could clearly discern all the mechanism of the carriage in its gyrations through the avenues and alleys.
The suggestion was made that provided it could be made more powerful, and its mechanism improved, it might be used to drag cannon into the field instead of using horses for that purpose.
The carriage was propelled bymechanism operated by a man-servant by means of a treadle.
The object of this mechanism was to keep the driving pinions always in gear with the toothed wheels, however the engine and other machinery might vibrate or the wheels be jolted upon uneven ground.
Nevertheless, several members of the French Academy united in declaring that such a piece of mechanism could never circulate freely through the streets of any city.
It is said that part of the mechanism was designed by Arzberger, a foreigner.
The mechanism was designed to be attached to carriages for the purpose of giving them motion by means of manual labor, or by other suitable power, and consisted of a peculiar combination of levers and rods.
A powerful mechanism which in its operation resembles the opening of a giant pair of shears, raises the mast and umbrella-shaped antenna, and the average time in getting the apparatus ready for service is only about eight minutes.
I would not have you, as Christian men, look upon your week-day world with its mechanism and its traffic, that world of yours that goes so literally upon wheels, as a province of life very far remote from the presence of God.
Contrast this old-fashioned kitchen with the modern one shown on the opposite page] The ideal mother, who is the mainspring of the smoothly running mechanism of the ideal home, will be scientifically trained for her position.
A well-arranged kitchen forms an important part of the smoothly running mechanism of the ideal home] First of all, the home must be comfortable, and its whole atmosphere must be that of peace.
There was one man, from another Company, who gave us the greatest amusement during our Tank-mechanism Course.
I saw none of the mechanism of the art, as I saw it in "L'Aiglon"; here art still concealed art.
All through the level perfection of her acting there are little sharp snaps of the nerves; and these are but one indication of that perfect mechanism which her art really is.
The first energy of inspiration is gone; what remains is the method, the mechanism, and it is that which alone one can study, as one can study the mechanism of the body, not the principle of life itself.
The orphan and neglected son of Verney, was on the eve of being linked to the mechanism of society by a golden chain, and to enter into all the duties and affections of life.
The pilot hardly moved the plumed steerage, and the slender mechanism of the wings, wide unfurled, gave forth a murmuring noise, soothing to the sense.
Raymond was to inspire them with his beneficial will, and the mechanismof society, once systematised according to faultless rules, would never again swerve into disorder.
Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.
Can my soul, inextricably linked to this perishable frame, become lethargic and cold, even as this sensitive mechanism shall lose its youthful elasticity?
The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust.
In most villages before extensive evictions begin that mechanism moves very slowly; property is widely diffused, and the residuum must have been small.
The mechanism by which the copper-plates are printed off upon stuffs is a secret in the possession of the Hartmann-manufactory, which is not shewn to strangers.
Coralie, herself, set to the task of winning him, was as unconscious of the subtly diaphonous mechanism of the trap as he.
It seemed as if they had been placed there at the last moment of birth, with no inner mechanism to answer to sensation.
We have now to understand the mechanism by which this is effected.
But the real mechanismof wave-motion was hidden from the ancients, and indeed was not made clear until the time of Newton.
If what are called material purposes were the only end to be served, a much simpler mechanism would be sufficient.
This insight into the author’s scaffolding, this explanation of the mechanism of his puppet-show, does not enhance the aesthetic, or the satirical force of the figure.
I am here leaving out of account the further question as to the forces and the mechanism by which these tendencies are developed in the building-up of the organism.
On top of and outside the cell the mechanism for moving the wooden switch rods is mounted.
A wooden rod joins the centre or upper part of the ∩-contact piece, and the three rods of a three-phase switch pass up through the switch compartment to the operating mechanism outside.
Such switches are usually operated directly by hand and are located on the backs of or close to the slate or marble boards on which the handles that actuate the switch mechanism are located.
In Birds there is an admirable mechanism and adaptation both for gliding in the air and swimming in the water.
Grant this hypothetical attracting force pulling the planets towards the sun, pulling the moon towards the earth, and the whole mechanism of the solar system is beautifully explained.
He has had the same to do with the development of modern science that the inventor of the orrery has had to do with the discovery of the mechanism of the world.
No, it proceeded on a wrong tack, and Kepler had proceeded on a wrong tack in imagining spokes or rays sticking out from the sun and driving the planets round like a piece of mechanism or mill work.
Leibniz than for the Cartesians or other philosophers, to free himself from the objection of a fatal mechanism which destroys human liberty.
Since the requirements of a new science would not allow a return to sheer scholasticism, it was necessary to find a fresh philosophy, in which entelechy and mechanism might be accommodated side by side.
The movement performed is no doubt an adaptive movement; but is there any occasion upon which the reflex mechanism concerned therein can ever have been of adaptive use?
And, if this is the case with regard to the mechanism as now fully constructed, still more must it have been the case with regard to all the previous stages of construction.
The perching of brainless birds, for instance, at once refers us to the roosting of sleeping birds, where the reflex mechanism concerned is clearly of high adaptive value.
Now, here also I find that the mechanismis congenital, or not acquired by individual experience.
For any other theory of Heredity must suppose the material of heredity to be of a kind more or less specialized, and the mechanism of heredity extremely precise and well ordered.
We meet with a closely analogous reflexmechanism in brainless vertebrata of other kinds; but these do not furnish such good test cases, because the possibility of natural selection cannot be so efficiently attenuated.
Even now the mechanism in the dog is not sufficiently precise to subserve the only function which occasionally and abortively it attempts to perform.
The laws of mechanism are the same whether applied to a man, or to a lever, or a wheel; but the man has more pliability than any combination of wheels and levers.
The spinning-mule, invented by Samuel Crompton, carried the mechanism of the cotton-factory many steps in advance.
All the shades of his forbears would have risen up in front of him had he consented to modify the mechanism of the monarchy inherited from so many ancestors.
They must be so until the mechanism of the cerebral functions is better understood than it is to-day.
The mechanism of such a transfer may easily be demonstrated.
It requires a deep knowledge of human nature and human necessities, and of the things which facilitate or obstruct the various ends which are to be pursued by the mechanism of civil institutions.
In the monastic institutions, in my opinion, was found a great power for the mechanism of politic benevolence.
It must suffice if I enable you to look into the interior mechanism of the springs which the poet has placed within it to set this production of his into due activity of movement.
