Actuate

Examples

• One of the most modern of typewriters has a single electro-magnet to actuate all the type bars of a set, and to throw each type from its normal position to the printing centre. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the Edison telephone, the sound-waves actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the case is entirely altered, when the passions unite together, and actuate the mind at the same time. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In the chapter on Electrical inventions reference is made to the mighty power of Niagara used to actuate a great number of electrical and other machines of vast power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Impressions always actuate the soul, and that in the highest degree; but it is not every idea which has the same effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• With Edison's telephone the sound-waves simply actuate an electric valve, so to speak, and permit variations in a current of any desired strength. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I will not pretend to question the motive which actuated Sherman in taking an officer from another army to supersede General Logan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here the view always fixes when we are actuated by either of these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the feelings that actuated Evadne were rooted in the depths of her being, and were such in their growth as he had no means of understanding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Does he not on the contrary feel a freedom of will within him, which, though you may call it fallacious, still actuates him as he decides? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Singer was the first to apply the treadle to the sewing machine for actuating it by foot power in the place of the hand-driven crank wheel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• According to Froebel, the actuating force is the presentation of symbols, largely mathematical, corresponding to the essential traits of the Absolute. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The electromagnets and other actuating mechanism cannot be seen plainly in this figure, but are produced diagrammatically in Fig. 2, and somewhat enlarged for convenience of explanation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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