Sentence examples for mechanical advances from inspiring English sources

The 15th and 16th centuries witnessed significant tonal and mechanical advances and the emergence of national schools of organ building.

Fitted with the latest mechanical advances and made from the fewest possible number of components, the Routemaster combined rationalist efficiency with the seductive styling of flattering tungsten lighting, soft canary yellow walls, jaunty tartan upholstery and its famous lover's seat.

Because of those mechanical advances and the cost issue, Zoran Filipi, an associate research scientist and the assistant director of the University of Michigan's automotive research center, said that electronic control would probably become widespread only if it could change the way engines operate.

Theories about the nature of energy as a "living force" – a physical substance that could be transmitted from one object to another – gave rise to mechanical advances like the steam engine, which in turn gave us a model for the operation of the universe.

The Nobel Prize-winning economic historian Robert William Fogel has studied what he calls the "efficiency of the human engine" and found that the mechanical advances of the Industrial Revolution were paralleled by an equal increase in the human body's size, strength and endurance.

There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see "A Lifelike Prosthetic Arm"), and brain interfaces that allow for complicated thought control (see "Brain Helps Quadriplegics Move Robotic Arms with Their Thoughts").

Titratable MRAs are designed to gradually protrude the mandible applying an easy-to-use mechanical advancing mechanism, until a protrusive position with positive effect on sleep apnea is reached.

First, kinesin stepping appears to be tightly coupled to ATP hydrolysis over a wide range of forces, with a single hydrolysis per 8-nm mechanical advance.

"Each mechanical advance over the course of the past media century has brought the gift of fire closer while diminishing the gods offering it," Mr. Burr writes.

A new digital camera from Epson has an unusual feature: a mechanical film advance lever.

Over the past several years, an energy conversion course offered by the Mechanical Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, has evolved into a cohesive series of lessons addressing three general topical areas: advanced thermodynamics, advanced mechanical system analysis, and direct energy conversion systems.