Many also fled half dressed from the tents, forming, as they ran, movable targets for our men.
That by proclamations of the enemy, which he has already carried into effect, the burghers still in the field are threatened with loss of all the movable and immovable property, and so with total ruin.
Everywhere,” adds Father Beckx, “the Society has been literally stripped of all its property, movable and immovable.
Printing may be quoted as an example; the printing press, with its movable letters, took the place of writing--the work of human fingers.
It is absolutely certain that virtually the whole of the influence that printing by movabletype has exercised on history sprang from the invention of Gutenberg.
Objection may be made to this statement, and the declaration urged that movable type were used in China before the Christian era.
It is more nearly certain than most things are in ancient history, that the civilized peoples of western Asia, Africa and Europe, including Gutenberg himself, did not know of movable type until Gutenberg invented them.
The influence of this invention is of the same kind as the influence of the invention of the art of printing from movable type, because it is an improvement in that art.
One was the invention of movable type, and the other that of pointing the wood screw.
The tories were to have for their share in this general massacre all the fine farms on the routes, and the movableproperty was to be divided among the Indians.
Uxmal was like the rest, and at that moment it was worse off, for we had stripped it of almost every movable to enlarge our accommodations at the ruins.
The box hive should be moved a few feet from its stand and in its place should be put a hive with movable frames containing full sheets of foundation.
In increasing the apiary it is sometimes best to buy colonies in box hives on account of their smaller cost and to transfer them to hives with movable frames.
It can not be insisted too strongly that the only profitable way to keep bees is in hives with movable frames.
A movable frame hive is now placed in the former location of the box hive and the swarm is hived in it.
A current is sent through a movable coil (the field magnet and coil are inclosed in the case) (Fig.
This movable bridge corresponds to the finger of the violinist; the finger slides back and forth along the string, thus changing the length of the bowed portion and producing variations in pitch.
By the use of a movable pulley, we are able to support a weight by a force equal to only one half the load.
Between the poles of a strong magnet suspend a movable coil which is connected with a sensitive galvanometer (Fig.
In Section 114, we obtained on a movable screen, by means of a simple lens, an image of a candle.
Usually a delicate pointer is attached to the movable coil and rotates freely with it, so that the swing of the pointer indicates the relative values of the current.
Replace the movable claws, and with glue and cotton fasten them firmly where they belong.
The officials sent with them adopted several of the Duchesse d'Uzès' inventions for the movable field hospital.
I hope it will be accepted as a type of the surgicalmovable ambulances.
Movable types of baked clay are said to have been invented by an alchemist, named Pi Sheng, about A.
The bodies of the vertebrae are but slightly movable on each other, and in old individuals become partially welded.
The Chinese newspapers of modern times are all printed frommovable types, an ordinary fount consisting of about six to seven thousand characters.
It is said that the T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng was printed from movable copper type cast by the Jesuit Fathers employed by the emperor K'ang Hsi at Peking; also that only a hundred copies were struck off, the type being then destroyed.
Four movable boards, fastened by metal hooks, raised the sides of the well to a height of nearly three feet, and a fifth board over the top formed a complete housing to the whole fabric.
By the side of the hummock lay a short piece of pine board, once the movable thwart of the float.
It presupposes that the figures may be moved; but only matter is movable in space.
For matter is primarily that which is movable in space.
A TWO-SPEED movable sidewalk, of the Blot, Guyenet and De Mocomble type, is to be used for conveying visitors at the Paris Exposition, says Engineering News.
Rip had a mental image of everything movablein the ship crashing against bulkheads with the terrific acceleration.
The instrument was equipped with three movable rings to be set for the celestial equator, for the zero meridian, and for the right ascension of any convenient star.
The legs held a movable cradle in which the rocket racks were placed.
The carpenter, who is also a glazier, set the framework on a wooden base and supplied it with a movable board as a lid; he then fixed thick panes of glass in the four sides.
The after-part of the vessel was remarkably strong; and a movable bulk-head, which ran across the forepart of the cabin, could at any time be unshipped to afford a free communication fore and aft when needed.
After groping about in the dark for some moments he discovered a small movable staircase standing against the wall, and leading perpendicularly upward.
Red glass is attached, by red plaster of Paris, to red movable tables; red rubbers of red felt, heavily weighted with red leads, are driven rapidly over the red surface.
He could enter without any noise; at the point described he found the movable screw, and put the key in its place; the secret door flew open, and shut behind him.
He found the movable piece of mother-of-pearl, in whose place was a thick sheet of glass.
At one arm was hung a movable weight, which could be run out to its extremity, or fixed at any part of it.
The still rising sea caused the vessel to roll with excessive violence, and the large quantity of water that had burst in swept the men, who had jumped out of their beds, and all movable things, from side to side in indescribable confusion.
Fortunately it fell so that his body lay between the great shaft and the movable beam, and thus he escaped with his life, but his feet were entangled with the wheel-work, and severely injured.
When a stone had to be raised; its weight was ascertained, and the movable weight was so fixed as exactly to counterbalance it.
Upon deck everythingmovable was out of sight, having either been stowed away below previous to the gale, or washed overboard.
The difficulty of a solid yet very movable mounting, increases rapidly with the dimensions and weight of an instrument.
A single body placed in the midst of such an ocean of movable particles, would remain at rest although it were impelled equally in every direction.
Of the movable stars there are seven, which circulate in as many concentric circles, so arranged that the lower circle is smaller than the higher, and that the seven so placed one within the other are all within the spheres of the fixed stars.
Among the movable planets the first is Saturn, which requires thirty years to make its revolution.
Observations relating to the sphere require a more complicated apparatus, namely, three movable great circles of a globe.
Ample light load adjustment or friction compensation is provided by means of the movable coil, which can be shifted horizontally or radially on loosening one screw.
Two movable copper leaf contacts of ample size make all commutations necessary to obtain the various speeds.
These vanes which act as condensers take charges proportional to the potential difference between them, resulting in a certain attraction which tends to rotate the movable disc against the restraining force of gravity.
The fixed coil A, composed of a number of turns of wire is fastened to a vertical support, and surrounded by the movable coil B of a few turns, or often of only one turn.
The ends of the movable coil dip into two cups of mercury E, E', located one above the other and along the axis of the coils so as to bring the two in series when connected to an external circuit.
An index pointer F is attached to the movable coil.
Thompson galvanometer with mirror reflecting system for reading the deflections of a galvanometer needle by the movements of a spot of light reflected from a mirror attached to the needle or movable magnetic system.
In the figure aa and b are two fixed vanes and c a movable vane, carrying a pointer and having a proper weight at its lower end.
At G is placed a roughly made galvanometer, to carry some 25 amperes or so, one terminal being in connection with the shaft of the armature, and the other attached to a movable brush 3.
The instrument, as illustrated, consists of fixed and movablevanes with terminals connecting with each.
The mechanism for holding and revolving the pail, when mounted on a bench or table, in combination with the movable printing or die roll, operating substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.
The employment in combination with the berth, A, as described, of the movable head board, J, substantially as described.
I claim the combination of a four way cock with a receptacle having a movable partition operated by the water, substantially as described, for the purpose of limiting and determining the amount of water to be discharged, as specified.
Providing the movable racks, with sliding brackets, I, which are so applied as to serve as supports for the outer ends of the racks when drawn partially out of their respective apartments, substantially as described.
