Appliance

Examples

• While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Should you attach an appliance of heavier wattage to a light socket you will doubtless blow a fuse. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The attention to fashion, the tasteful appliance of ornament in each portion of her dress, were quite in place with her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This appliance toasts bread evenly, rapidly, and costs very little to operate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Among table appliances are toasters, coffee percolators, electric teapots, chafing dishes and numerous other articles that add to the convenience of preparing food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is now possible, by means of electric appliances, practically to eliminate all drudgery from housework. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The building was wired from top to bottom, and equipped with all the appliances of the art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One thing most desirable in connection with practically all of the lamp-socket appliances described and illustrated in this section is the very small cost of operation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These are termed light-duty appliances, as they operate from the light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He must go to bed immediately, must have a regular nurse, and various appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Dreary and solemn the old house looks, with so many appliances of habitation and with no inhabitants except the pictured forms upon the walls. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The principle in these appliances is the employment of two different metals which expand unequally, and thus maintain an uniformity of operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And even for the individual worker, the convenient appliances and helps that have been invented have greatly relieved the occupation of pain and drudgery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And it was this new model which caused the addressograph to take its place in the business world as one of the leading office appliances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was natural that in the first development of mechanical appliances they should be devoted to those pursuits in which men had the greatest practical interest. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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