The wav'ring stylus scarce obey'd The hand, that once an empire sway'd!
The number of contacts made by the stylus per minute is 5000, and in working at this speed the first difficulty is encountered in the use of the two relays.
It will be seen that it consists of a holder A, somewhat resembling a drill chuck, fastened to the flat spring B in such a manner that the angle the stylus makes to the drum can be altered.
It is, of course, obvious that a somewhat similar adjustment must be made with regard to the position of the stylus on the metal print at the transmitting machine.
The stylus in this class of machine is a fixture, the cylinder being given a lateral as well as a revolving movement.
The current flows from the battery M through the spring Y, through the drum and metal print, the stylus Z, spring A, down to the relay R, and from R back to the battery M.
As the drum of the machine travels laterally, by reason of the threaded shaft and bearing, the stylus must necessarily be a fixture.
As the stylus traces over a conducting strip the circuit is completed, and the tongue of the relay R is attracted, making contact with the stop S.
Showing the arrangement for sliding the stylus to or from the machine.
Care must be taken that the edge of the lap draws away from the point of {78} the stylus and not towards it.
The entire system is pivotally mounted upon the supporting screw O, so that the drum T, about which a band of paper is wound, may be swung against a stylus C, which records upon the paper the number and power of the explosions.
A small stylus or pencil f traces "the atmospheric line" on the paper as it passes over the drum p''.
It is simply sufficient to compare the explosion record with the atmospheric line, traced by the stylus f.
When this groove is again presented to the stylus the diaphragm is vibrated and gives forth the sounds originally imparted to it when the indentations were made.
We are ready writers, skilful with the stylus and the coloring pencil, and our lot is preferable to that of others, who are more ignorant.
See the triangular stylus of copper or bronze reproduced by the side of the measuring-rule, and the plan on the tablet of Gudea, p.
Below the plan can be seen the ruler marked with the divisions used by the architect for drawing his designs to the desired scale; the scribe's stylus is represented lying on the left of the plan.
You have got rid of a lot of that nasty fat that was filling out your skin through doing nothing but sit on a stool all day making scratches with a stylus on a plate of wax.
Marcus took up his stylus to write a dozen times over, but he did not add a word to those which he had written as soon as he was alone, and he threw the pointed implement down each time with a feeling of disgust.
Say you oughtn't to have been fighting, but been busy scratting about with your stylus and making marks on that wax.
Suppose I sought some lonely height And dipped a stylus in the light Of welding worlds and sought to write Upon the highest, deepest blue My message to Sam Smith and you.
So I throw the stylus away and set Myself at the typewriter alphabet To spell some message I find within Which shall also scratch your rawhide skin, For you must read it, if I learn how To write for nineteen hundred and now.
The upper stylus was now moving freely at the ends of its two rigid arms, counterparts of those holding the lower stylus.
A few minutes later, she took thestylus that was in the lower box.
With a tremor of eagerness he seized the stylus and underneath what she had written wrote boldly the name, "Graeme Mackenzie.
His wand was also representative of the stylus which was used to write on the "Tablet of Fate," for Mercury was also the god Nebo of the Babylonians, who is mentioned under this name in the Bible.
The stylus was also the emblem of Thoth, who wrote in the "Book of Good Works" after death.
He tapped his radio stylus thoughtfully against the edge of his desk.
There he found, written by the automaticstylus on his radio pad, the message: "Be with you at seven o'clock.
A calculating pad and a stylus were lying on the desk.
He opened it, and with his stylus added a brief message to the mass of notes inside, and wrote down the formula for a certain complex chemical compound.
A vibrating diaphragm to collect the sounds, and a stylus to impress them on a sheet of tinfoil, were its essential parts.
The consequence was a vibration of the mica diaphragm to which the stylus was attached.
This is the sonorous record which, on being passed under the stylusof the reproducing tympanum, will cause it to give out a faithful copy of the original speech.
Thus if a metal stylus were rubbed or drawn over a prepared surface, the point of the stylus was found to slip or 'skid' every time a current passed between them, as though it had been oiled.
In front of the wax two small metal tympanums are supported, each carrying a fine needle point or stylus on its under centre.
The tympanum vibrating in the curves of speech was instantly united in his imagination with the embossing stylus and the long and short indentations on the Morse paper; the idea of the phonograph flashed upon him.
He attached the pin or stylus to the centre of the mica, and brought its point to bear on a cylindrical surface of prepared chalk.
Looking on the record of the sound, one could see only the scoring of the stylus on the yielding surface of the metal, like the track of an Alpine traveller across the virgin snow.
Only with a magnifying glass can the undulations caused by the vibrating stylus be distinguished.
A motion of translation is also given to the barrel as it revolves, so that the marking stylus held over it describes a spiral path upon its surface.
The ancient writing implement known as the stylus was made of every conceivable material, sometimes with the precious metals, but usually of iron, and on occasion might be turned into formidable weapons.
Vasari writes of a certain sixteenth century artist, that he was equally skillful in handling the stylus or the pen, black chalk or red crayon.
It was with his stylus that Caesar stabbed Casca in the arm, when attacked in the senate by his murderers; and Caligula employed some person to put to death a senator with a like instrument.
It was with his stylus that Caesar stabbed Casca in the arm when attacked by his murderers.
The stylus and waxed tablets though still used, in a measure gave way to the reawakened interest in ink and ink writings.
The message is spoken into the telephone transmitter in the ordinary way, and the vibrations set up by the voice are caused to act upon a recording stylus by the impact of the sound waves at the further end of the wires.
Any sound entering the trumpet agitated the membrane, which in turn moved the stylus and produced a line on the cylinder corresponding to the vibration.
In the first place, the record remains stationary while the trumpet, diaphragm and stylus pass over it.
For double writing lines a double-ruling stylus may be made of two pins fixed in a wooden handle at the exact width of the writing gauge (fig.
The ruling stylus has a blunt point, which indents the paper, but does not scratch it.
The curious assemblages of wedge-shaped indentations which make up Assyrian writing are a direct outcome of the clay cake, and the stylus used to imprint little marks on it.
The stylus recorded the Earthman's question too, but Rynason did not watch it.
Horng spoke, and Rynason turned to watch the stylus of the interpreter as it moved across the paper.
He read the date into the mike for the stylus to record, and sat back and stretched.
There was a silence as the stylus finished moving across the paper, and Rynason looked up at Horng.
The Hirlaji was shaking, his entire body trembling with some sort of tension which even communicated itself through the interpreter, causing the stylus to quaver and jump forward, dragging a jagged line across the paper.
The cutting-tool and stylus are devices made of sapphire, a gem next in hardness to a diamond, and they have to be cut and formed to an exact nicety by means of diamond dust, most of the work being performed under high-powered microscopes.
One of the difficulties of reproduction for many years was the trouble experienced in keeping the stylus in perfect engagement with the wave-like record, so that every minute vibration would be reproduced.
The weight presses the stylus to its work, but because of its mass it cannot respond to the extremely rapid vibrations of the stylus.
The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction.
Instead of tin-foil, a wax cylinder is employed, the record being cut thereon by a cutting-tool attached to a diaphragm, while the reproduction is effected by means of a blunt stylus similarly attached.
This paper, while still in a damp condition, was passed between the drum and stylus in continuous, progressive motion.
When the undulatory current passed from the stylus to the chalk, the stylus slipped on the surface, and, being connected to a diaphragm, made it vibrate and repeat the original sounds.
The first two are based on a method of varying the strength of the current in accordance with the curves of the handwriting, and making the varied current actuate by means of magnetism a writing pen or stylus at the distant station.
The paper was soaked in a solution of iodide of potassium in starch and water, and the signal currents were passed through it by a marking stylus or pencil of iron.
It does not precisely respond to the movements of the marking stylus in taking the impression, and does not guide the receiving stylus sufficiently well in reproducing sounds.
Moreover, it is not unlikely that the slipping of the stylusin the electromotograph is due to a similar cause.
The electrical chronograph is an instrument for measuring minute intervals of time by means of a stylus tracing a line on a band of travelling paper or a revolving barrel of smoked glass.
By this device it is easy to see that as the stylus or tracer sinks into a hollow of the gelatine, or rises over a height, the current in the line becomes stronger or weaker.
The instrument of Gray, which is the most successful, works by intermittent currents or electrical impulses, that excite electro-magnets and move the stylus at the far end of the line.
The receiver of Edison was equally ingenious, and consisted of a cylinder of prepared chalk kept in rotation and a brass stylus rubbing on it.
The tympan employed for receiving is made of gold-beater's skin, having a stud at its centre and a springy stylus of steel wire.
It caused clay to become the common writing material of the country, the cuneiform characters being impressed with a stylus upon the tablet while the clay was still moist.
The impression made by the stylus upon it resembled a wedge; curved lines became angles, and after a time the original picture passed into a conventional form.
If you scratch its surface with an erasing knife it alters the colour and the stylus will no longer mark on the scratched surface.
A silver point is a drawing made with a stylus of pure silver on paper or card specially prepared for the purpose with a coating of chalk or china clay applied under heavy pressure.
When he had one in his hand, and a stylusfor writing with, he thought for some time, and then wrote with trembling fingers, though exerting all his strength.
When a message was sent the paper was set to moving by a clock mechanism or otherwise, under the stylus that was pressing on the paper as it passed over a metal roller or bed-plate.
When in operation a strip of paper was made to move under an iron stylus at the receiving-end of the line.
The blind sister leaned over the stylus through which the current flowed to the paper and smelled out as well as spelled out the message, and repeated it to her astonished brother.
Every time the stylus drops through a hole in the paper it makes electrical contact and sends a current, long or short, according to the length of the hole.
The effect was to send currents through the receiving-stylus chopped into long or short marks, or the dots and dashes of the Morse code, and recorded on the tape in marks that were blue or brown, according to the chemical used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stylus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cartridge; chalk; ink; intercom; material; needle; phonograph; pickup; stereo; stylus; tap; turntable
