Sentence examples for ancient devices from inspiring English sources

A photograph collector, dealer and photographer himself, he shares the field's growing interest in ancient devices and techniques.

He had his troops scatter caltrops, ancient devices made of spiked rods welded together in such a way that, however they land, a spike faces upward, like a child's jack.

Modern versions of the operating system have solved this problem by moving to a 64-bit signed integer to count seconds, but some ancient devices or those running ancient software may fail unpredictably.

He employs the ancient devices of mistaken identity and misplaced heritage, but instead of playing them as a farce, this tale of rural poverty and landowners in 19th-century England is brutally tragic, as his heroine contends with an absolutely pitiless patriarchy.

The boundaries or end of the universe can be found in black holes in ancient devices and in places where the space time continuum is in flux.

Quern, ancient device for grinding grain.

It is an ancient device, of course.

It is an ancient device that was already in use during the 13th century.

Camel saddles, also an ancient device, were contrived to accommodate the animal's hump or humps.

The other evil is the Covenant, an order of alien religious zealots eager to set off an ancient device intended to wipe out the Flood and all other life in the universe.

No one knows precisely how or when the camera obscura -- the forerunner of the modern photographic camera -- came into being, but everyone agrees that it is an ancient device.