Sentence examples for mechanical device intended from inspiring English sources

The modern voting machine industry was born in 1869, when Thomas A. Edison patented a mechanical device intended for members of Congress.

In particular, it examined some mechanical devices intended to move the hot particles only from one side to the other.

A schlep is a "loafer" to some, but is gaining the meaning of "one who drags himself around"; its meaning is slopping over into schlepper, "one who carries," a caddy or a gofer (one who will "go fer coffee"); a mechanical schlepper is the device intended to help you roll baggage on wheels but makes a surgical strike at the traveler with clawing bungies.

The writer realized that all of his mechanical devices were intended to expand time, but time cannot be expanded: there are only twenty-four hours in a day.

Antikythera mechanism, ancient Greek mechanical device used to calculate and display information about astronomical phenomena.

A missing mechanical device?

It was a fairly simple mechanical device.

An oar is certainly a mechanical device.

We did not see one mechanical device working.

Hanging next to the Newark Clock is another mechanical device, "Signal Tower 267".

A mechanical device prevents a train from moving if the doors are open.