Sentence examples for constructing a machine from inspiring English sources

In 1885 Rowland finished constructing a machine capable of engraving as many as 20,000 lines to the inch for diffraction gratings.

The mechanical removal of sulphuretted apricot pit was investigated by designing and constructing a machine.

He constructed a machine with which one individual could spin several threads at one time.

He also constructed a machine to rule diffraction gratings (devices for breaking light down to its component colours) with up to 6,700 lines per cm (17,000 lines per inch).

She has in the past suspended a Gypsy caravan from a crane, constructed a machine for showering viewers with confetti and created an installation in which visitors were invited to sit beneath a felt-clad tree that responded by shedding its autumn leaves.

Grainger believed western music to be arrested at a state similar to the two-dimensional artifice of Egyptian sculpture, and spent his latter years attempting to construct a machine capable of generating scaleless, pulseless, synthetic sound which he termed "Free Music".

For example, it should be possible to construct a machine that is capable of producing identical copies of itself from preformed building blocks but that arranges its descendants in a slightly different manner when a random change occurs in its instructions.

There it remained for 20 years, at the centre of a dispute between Orville Wright and the Smithsonian Institution over claims that the Institution's third secretary, Samuel P. Langley, had constructed a machine capable of flight prior to the Wrights' flights of December 1903.

It is of course much easier to construct a machine to distinguish between two possibilities than among 10, and this is another advantage for the base 2; but a more important point is that bits serve simultaneously to carry numerical information and the logic of the problem.

Essentially, you construct a machine out of the included plastic bits, and use the NXT Intelligent Brick to feed your creation commands and programs.

Suppose we could construct a machine, the HAL 1.01, with (nearly) all of the psychological attributes of persons: would HAL 1.01 be alive?