Osmium alloys such as osmiridium are very hard and, along with other platinum group metals, are used in the tips of fountain pens, instrument pivots, and electrical contacts, as they can resist wear from frequent operation.
Right before our eyes, Roy turned the well-known concept of a light pen, an instrument that allows you to interact with a TV screen, into a synthesizer designed for noise music.
Last fall, the team was recapturing the otters to take more blood samples, pluck whiskers and retrieve a small, implanted, pen-shaped instrument (all with anesthesia) from each.
Advanced structural ceramics are presently used in diverse tribological applications such as tips for ballpoint pens, precision instrument bearings and cutting tools inserts.
The light-beam oscillograph has much less weight to move than does the pen-writing instrument and so responds satisfactorily to higher frequencies, about 500 Hz, or cycles per second, compared with 100 Hz for the pen assembly.
The device is constructed of aluminum and titanium, resulting in a lightweight (120 g) and pen-like instrument (length 220 mm, diameter 23 mm).
A pen-like instrument called a canting (, sometimes spelled with old Dutch orthography tjanting) is the most common.
Goethe reckoned that boredom was the premier creative impulse, and without it we'd never even bother picking up a pen, paintbrush, musical instrument or, these days, a 5-megapixel digital camera.
Offline samples of handwriting are collected by making individuals write on paper with a typical writing instrument (pen or a pencil) and digitizing the paper documents using a scanner.
Place your "writing instrument" (pen or pencil, etc. ) on the paper perpendicular to the surface so that the writing point is on it.
To score the card, take your dead pen or other instrument and draw along the ruler from edge to edge on the paper, pressing down hard enough to mark the paper but not hard enough to cut through.
