Sentence examples for mathematical instruments and from inspiring English sources
A clockmaker by trade, Rittenhouse built mathematical instruments and, it is believed, the first telescope in the United States.
Keuffel & Esser was known for its slide rules and other mathematical instruments, and requested that the architectural firm De Lemos & Cordes design its 1893 headquarters with images of a compass, triangle, pliers and mallet in the frieze.
She was responsible for tens of thousands of objects, including sculpture, ceramics, tapestries, furniture, jewelry, metalwork, glass, clocks, mathematical instruments and architectural pieces — almost every kind of art made in Europe from 1400 to 1900 that was not painting or drawing.
The model response obtained with the imbedded identified parameters correlates well with the target values, therefore, justifying the use of the underlying concept and the mathematical instruments and numerical tools applied.
Emery Molyneux ( ; died June 1598) was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance.
According to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable items.
He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes, manufactured by his company "William Ford Stanley and Co. Ltd".
Commissioned in the late 15th century by the Duke of Urbino, it is fitted with trompe l'oeil furniture and cupboards whose open doors reveal objects that tell the patron's life story: items like armor, books, and musical and mathematical instruments.
Molyneux was known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments such as compasses and hourglasses.
His lack of a chronometer may have contributed to his frequent errors of position in the Antarctic leg of the first voyage; at one point in this story he declares himself "destitute of the various nautical and mathematical instruments".
In his account Morrell writes that he was "destitute of the various nautical and mathematical instruments", but other parts of his narrative make it clear that the occasional dead reckoning calculation was the exception to the norm.
