Actuating

Examples

• 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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