You will, as a not very distant possibility, see yourself in possession of the power to switch your brain on and off in a particular subject as you switch electricity on and off in a particular room.
The velocity of the motor and the speed of the carriage are varied by varying the strength of the current, and this is effected by the movement of the controlling switch B.
Staghorn flipped theswitch to disengage Peccary's consciousness from Humanac's circuits.
I'm going to switch you over into Humanac's circuits now.
As sensations of vastness and lost dimensions spread through him, he reached out and pressed down the switch that would pour his own brain impulses into Humanac's circuits.
But when you get to him, you need only give the horse a switch under the left ear, and he'll trot home of himself.
If, however, through accident the bridge switchwas rendered useless the doors would close automatically in a few seconds.
The turning of this switch caused the magnet to draw down a heavy weight, which instantly released the friction clutch, and allowed the door to fall or slide down over the opening in a second.
On the bridge was a switchwhich connected with an electric magnet at the side of the bulkhead opening.
This line was attached to a strong, limber switch of birch, set up slant-wise over the hole, with the butt stuck fast in a hole chopped in the ice and banked with snow.
And this switch flew a little streamer of coloured calico; so that Tim had only to see the streamer bobbing up and down, at any distance, to know that there was a pickerel fast on the hook.
The ape loved the fun as well as his master, and coursed the frightened boy round the yard, beating him with all the strength the switch admitted of, while Cut-in-Half laughed till his sides ached.
With studied care he rose, dialed another filtered rum for himself, and gently slid the initiator switch on the electroluminescent kaleidoscope embedded in the rear wall.
If Ludwig could switch his stand so decisively from an emphatic anti-Popeek to an even more emphatic pro-Popeek, perhaps he could change in other respects as well.
When a boy behaved badly, he would take his switch and stick it into the back of the boy's coat collar so that the switch should rise above his head in the air.
This plausible story induced the agent to give him his keys to unlock the switch at the north end of the Kingston railroad yard.
Those furthest behind reached a mile or so north of the switch on the main line.
One versed in the science of forestry might have recognised the little stub of switchas a peach-tree switch; one bred of the soil would have known its purpose.
But Parker can't find his duds at all; and so in putting two and two together it's easy for me to figure how the switch was made.
In ordinary water it is an island, between the track and the river, the switch running to it over piles, and several times when they rode cars into his unloading doors they have seen things they believe will bear investigation.
The contact light, green, still burned like a false beacon; and lucky it did, for it showed the switch had been tampered with and exonerated Bartholomew Mullen completely.
It blew out his lantern, but he flung it away, for he could throw the switch in the dark.
Then it was only to say: "Runaways went by here before night man could get to switch and open it.
When Dad, looking back for the hind-end brakeman to lock the switch and swing on, called all clear, Georgie pulled her out another notch, and the long train slowly gathered headway up the slippery track.
Go together to west switch house-track, open, and set it.
In the next breath the coalers, with the sweep of the gale in their frightful velocity, smashed over the switch and on.
If he could reach the siding switch ahead of the runaway train, he could throw the deadly catapult on the siding and into his own train, and so save the unconscious travellers.
Send your night man to west switch house-track, and open for runaway train.
Before Reynolds had fairly gathered his wits, Sinclair, leaving his train on the main track in front of the depot, was clattering over the switch after the runaways.
He pushed the key into the lock, threw the switch and snapped it, and, to make deadly sure, braced himself against the target-rod.
Walker saluted with the switch he carried instead of a whip, clicked his tongue at the cob, and rattled away down the High Street.
Unhappily, he strutted, and slapped a gaitered leg with a switch he carried in place of a whip.
The easy snap of the controlling switch on the electric burner gives a certain intensity of heat which remains at that temperature so long as the switch remains in that position.
Each burner is operated by an indicating snap switch which has three separate heats, full, medium and low; medium being one-half of full and low one-half of medium.
One of the first problems was to control the heat at the iron, and to do this a separable switch plug was developed, enabling the operator to connect or disconnect the current supply at the iron.
The limit switch automatically shuts off the power and stops the motor when the valve is entirely open or shut.
The circuit is completed by turning a switch and the plating begins.
The second is that while the parts are being limbered up, the switch is turned on and the motor started.
If that stove is equipped with a single heat, you will be using the full 600 watts whenever the switch is on.
It also must be locked to the center of gravity of the earth before it is used by means of the switch on the front.
Each instrument is set in action by closing the switch on top, after closing the gravity anchor switch.
He closed the gravity anchor switch and again the efforts of a dozen Terrestrials were futile to move it.
He was in a squad car and most of our squad cars have channel 1 and 2, but they stay on channel 1 unless they are instructed to switch over to channel 2.
She has recoiled again to the window; and when he finds the switch and turns the light up, she is seen standing there holding her dark wrapper up to her throat, so that her face has an uncanny look of being detached from the body.
She springs up, runs and turns the light by a switch close to the door.
In a moment the little plane had drifted up to the now idle magnet, touched it and was about to bounce off, when Morey again snapped the switch shut and the two machines were locked firmly together!
Morey snapped the switch from the general radar to the beam receiver, that he might locate the machine exactly.
He found it a tremendous effort of the will to make himself reach up and close the switch that started the little camera whirring almost noiselessly.
There was another snap as the switch of the disrupter beam was turned on.
Arcot had snapped open the switch the moment he saw this display start, and it had had little time to act, for the instant the circuit was opened, it subsided.
Arcot moved a small switch and the machine blinked, giving a strange appearance to the seemingly solid images that were thrown on the screen.
There was a click as theswitch shut, and the Solarite was as transparent as the air above it.
Morey began to close a tiny switch set in one side of the instrument panel--then, before the relay below could move, he had flipped it back.
There was a snap, as the temporary switch was closed, and the current surged into the big magnet on the keel.
Arcot reached over swiftly and snapped the switch of the microphone.
Wade," called Arcot tensely as he snapped the switchof the televisophone, "bring Morey and meet me at the machine on the roof at once.
First, he tried coaxing, and as that proved of little avail, he next tried the effect of a few vigorous strokes with a long switch which he carried in his hand.
Musha thin, bad luck to ye for one harse," said he as he applied the switch with renewed energy.
But Harley stared critically at an electric switch which was placed on the immediate right of the door and then up at the silk-shaded lantern which lighted the room.
Crossing, he raised and lowered the switch rapidly, but the lamp continued to burn uninterruptedly!
East, down the track, only a few yards away, the green eye of a switch lamp winked at him.
Where there was a switch lamp there was a siding, and where there was a siding there was promise of a station.
He flung himself at the switch lever, tugged upon it and then, trembling, every ounce of remaining strength seeming to ooze from him, he covered his face with his hands.
The switch lights were lighted before the day man left, of course.
He remembered then that the lamp fitted into a socket at the top of the switch stand, and could be lifted off--if he could reach it!
It took him a long time even to pass the switch light.
They should have turned off when he'd thrown the master switch this morning.
Doak snapped the video switch to on and dialed Lateral-American.
Wouldn't it be perfectly splendid if--Switch off quick, here's aunt coming!
I simply motioned James to switch the car around and back up.
I'll switch off and tell you something that has hurt me for the last three or four years.
We'll switch Old Dut's new gate off and play Moses in the bulrushes at the river bank.
He had no right to switch us with a stick," insisted Ben.
I was there, and I got some of thatswitch across my legs, too.
