Hence the number of mechanical schemers who made their appearance almost simultaneously in all parts of the country, and the number of new methods of various kinds contrived by them for the production of motive power.
The minds of the curious and the scientific were thus directed to the subject of steam as a motive power.
The practical intellect is a motive power, not as executing movement, but as directing towards it; and this belongs to it according to its mode of apprehension.
But the speculative intellect is merely an apprehensive power; while the practical intellect is a motive power.
By many means, which the easy command of a motive power at any time, at every part of a line, must afford of accommodating the public, I believe the traffic may be increased.
Before the close of the century practically every important cable line in the United States had changed its motive power to electricity.
The amount of motive power developed by the Hindu is small as compared with that which the European is capable of exerting; hence he has less necessity for a highly nitrogenous diet.
The horse is used as an immediate source of motive power.
No immediate application of the law to the practical purposes of the worker was made, however, and it is only in recent years that compressed air has been extensively employed as a motive power.
Sanborn in an article on Motive Power Appliances, in the Twelfth Census Report of the United States, Vol.
For in that idea was contained the germ of all the future of steam as a motive power.
He made this invention one of the four subjects in his Patent of 1661 (see Appendix B), which again varies the reading; but this last plainly indicates the motive power as having been a mill.
In the case of rubber cord used for a motive power on model aeroplanes, the rubber is both twisted and stretched, but chiefly the latter.
The little engine attached thereto weighed 300 grammes, and developed a motive power of 2 kilogram-metres per second (see ch.
Since the pressure is greater during the expansion, the quantity of motive power produced by the dilatation is greater than that consumed by the compression.
Heat, according to Carnot, in the type of engine we are considering, can evidently be a cause of motive power only by virtue of changes of volume or form produced by alternate heating and cooling.
Wherever there exists a difference of temperature, it is possible to have the production of motive power from heat; and conversely, production of motive power, from heat alone, is impossible without difference of temperature.
As an immediate result of the development of motive power in the submarine its speed both on and below the surface of the water as well as its radius of action has been materially increased.
Marié-Davy, Professor of Chemistry at Montpellier University, suggested an electro-magnetic engine as motive power.
You have been talking about the superintendent; is he the same as the superintendent of motive power?
The latter was under a master mechanic a hundred miles or more away, who in turn could usually and properly count on the support of the superintendent of motive power.
The superintendent has charge of a division and the superintendent of motive power, like the superintendent of transportation, has charge of a department.
No motive power is required and the structure of the furnace is of a durable character.
This unrivalled mechanician, in stating the case, premises that a motive power has to be discovered which can develop at least as much power in proportion to its weight as a bird is able to develop.
This trip firmly proved the possibilities of steam as motive power on railways and started the modern era of railroad building.
Watches were made possible by the introduction of the coiled spring as motive power, instead of the weight.
The idea of using electricity as motive power on railroads is nearly as old as the railroads themselves.
Passing from the consideration of water as a motive powerin its natural state, I ask you to notice briefly the gigantic force it can be made to develop under the action of heat.
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