The turning moment (unwinding tendency) is proportional to the difference between the angle of winding and yielding, proportional to the moment of inertia of its section, i.
Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to speak.
To Prevent Shade Rollers from Unwinding Obtain a stick for the hem on the lower end of the shade that is 2 in.
The bag may be easily opened by unwinding the chain after loosening it by raising the bag slightly.
But all their speed was to no purpose, as the cable was unwinding within a hundred fathoms; and, as a last and desperate resource, the cable was stopped altogether, and for a few minutes the ship hung on by the end.
The coils came up from below the deck without a kink, and, unwinding themselves easily, passed over the stern into the sea.
He was turning around and around very quickly, by this movementunwinding a long rope which had been twined around his body as thread is wound about a bobbin.
Escorval believed to be his friend did not pause in his labor of unwinding the rope, and it was in the most tranquil voice that he responded: "As you see, I am freeing myself from this burden of rope, which I find extremely uncomfortable.
In the inner offices of the city the new heroes sit through the day, watchmakers themselves, winding and unwinding the immemorial crowds with new devices.
The confusions of the city's traffic; the winding and unwinding herds that made a picture for the eyes of Erik Dorn, individualize into little human solitudes.
The smear of gestures, the elastic distortion of crowds winding and unwinding under the tumult of windows, gave him the feeling of a geometrical emptiness of life.
Hazlitt felt a sudden lusty kinship toward the swarm of bodies unwinding itself through the snowfall.
She had risen to greet him and was nowunwinding the white silk handkerchief wrapped about his throat and helping him off with his fur tippet and gloves.
She would sit for hours under her awnings and watch the lazy boats crawling in and out of the inlet, or the motionless steamers--motionless at that distance--slowly unwinding their threads of smoke.
I stood above my brother, the god Unwinding the roll.
And at night, instead of twice watching The Hazards of Hortense, he must still unreasonably serve late customers until the second unwinding of those delectable reels.
The Gills, above referred to, watched the unwinding celluloid with vastly different emotions.
This lasted for a moment or so; and then slowly unwinding himself, the conqueror turned round, crawled head to head with his victim, and proceeded to appropriate the prey.
The other end of the chain is hung in the groove of a very movable roller 14; and this will be turned immediately by the unwinding of the chain upon its axis.
I could see to the right of me the crowds in the Nevski, that had looked like the continual unwinding of a ragged skein of black silk, break their regular movement and split up like flies falling away from an opening door.
Quick, nimble hands tore off the covering from a foot of the shore-end and of the main cable till they came to the core, then swiftly unwinding the copper wires they laid them together as closely and carefully as a silken braid.
Without a kink the coil came up from the vessel's hold, and unwinding easily, passed over the stern into the sea.
When the mainspring is tightly wound, its magnetic poles are in a certain direction, and in unwinding they are constantly changing, so that the direction of this force is also constantly changed.
Any lint or dirt which has accumulated inside the shuttle at the nose end should be withdrawn, as such might retard the unwinding of the bobbin.
Katerfelto, suiting the action to the word by unwinding their folds.
All being thus arranged, the man lets go of the break, and the unwinding then proceeds until the lead has touched bottom.
The bottom being reached, the unwinding suddenly ceases, and there is nothing further to do but read the indication given by the differential counter, this giving the depth.
The coils came up from below the deck without a kink, and unwinding themselves easily, passed over the stern into the sea.
While one hand hung up the first string the other was already unwinding the band on the second leg.
Up to this point there is really nothing new in the apparatus; but the principal improvement consists in the unwinding and arrest of the sensitized film.
The impulse pin I receives a blow, assisting theunwinding of the spring, and C again locks the lever.
A strong impulse causes the spring to coil itself up more than a weak impulse would; but inasmuch as more energy is stored the process ofunwinding is hastened.
The time occupied by the winding and the unwinding depends upon the length of the spring.
When this occurs, and the cocoon is sent to be reeled, it naturally becomes detached when the unwinding reaches the point at which the break exists.
And that, as you will see, is why certain things came out as they did in the unwinding of events that were to follow.
After unwinding these wires, he stood again at attention.
After saying these words the headsman took out of a little cabinet a small bundle, carefully wrapped up in paper, and, unwinding it gradually from its manifold wrappings, set out its contents before the stranger.
No son of mine, I tell you, should ever become a mere skein-unwinding machine.
If you can use the owner of the sword for unwinding thread, you might use his sword instead of scissors.
Unwinding the ball of thread, he laid it loosely in large loops upon the ground so that it might run easily without hitching, then he tied the end of the thread tightly around one of his arrows.
He began unwinding the rope, and when he had done he was as thin as ever he had been before.
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