Sentence examples for mechanical instrument from inspiring English sources

The earliest integrator was a mechanical instrument called the planimeter.

In a world surrounded by ever-glowing LCD screens, there's an analog chic to wearing a mechanical instrument.

The lie detector, billed as "a mechanical instrument of the future" by one of its earliest proponents, would in theory replace traditional police interrogations (heavily dependent on the third degree) and jury deliberations.

One of the strangest fruits of his postwar Neo-Classicism was his infatuation with the pianola, a mechanical instrument that never missed a note or a cue and never grew tired.

The flame retardancy and mechanical properties of the composites were investigated by means of horizontal burning, vertical burning, limiting oxygen index, cone calorimetry, smoke density, thermogravimetric and mechanical instrument experiments.

Reasons given by listeners for preferring to listen to a traditional, mechanical instrument rather than an electro-acoustic version of it indicate they are sensitive to an "originality" criterion.

Mechanical instruments are rare.

Mozart called writing for mechanical instruments "loathsome work," but the two fantasies presented here (K.

Hundreds of electrical and mechanical instruments have been developed for research in psychomotor learning, but only about two dozen are used with any regularity.

He was known for composing music for "player pianos", mechanical instruments that play back music encoded as holes punched in a roll of paper.

There was exuberantly daft sound-art from Edinburgh's Usurper; a lovable, playful, gorgeously deadpan set from Icelandic music collective Slátur, and a whimsical installation of mechanical instruments by Sarah Kenchington.