Sentence examples for suspended weight from inspiring English sources

Somehow they had to use a continuous mechanical force — the pull of a suspended weight slowly falling — to measure discrete intervals of time.

Universally, the clock-chiming mechanism has been a drum pegged to trip levers wired to the bell hammers; rotated by a suspended weight, it is actuated by the clockworks.

For the most part, though, such systems are an updated version of the pendulum inside Zhang Heng's seismometer: a suspended weight that tends to stay still even as the Earth beneath it shakes.

And yet the thrower has more control with his hand bthan when he has a suspended weight.

The plastic ball attached to the linear displacement transducer was laid in the dam and held at critical tension by a suspended weight.

She suspended weight in the same way dramatists suspend disbelief".

An improbable technology is at work in a windswept hangar: an electricity generator powered by the buffalo themselves, hauling at some suspended weights.

These involved subjects pulling suspended weights up against the force of gravity (in the case of chimps and monkeys this was done for a food reward).

By contrast, Hoffman's Strength and Health "sings the praises of such articles as the Giant Crusher Grip, a steel-spring device to develop the 'crushing, heaving, and pushing muscles,'" and the Head Gear, which enables the athlete to suspend weights from his head and thus produce a neck whose owner is "quickly recognized as a powerful, virile man".

Delta suspended its weight standard enforcement in December , 1991 and describes its policy as "under review". USAir put its weight program into a similar limbo earlier this year.

A seismograph is a pendulum, consisting of a suspended heavy weight attached to a recording device - traditionally a pen touching the surface of a paper chart on a rotating drum.