Balancing

Examples

• In this way one hand could control both the steering and the balancing of the planes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Papacy seemed to be balancing its traditional reliance upon the faithful Habsburgs against its quarrel with republican France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In practice, however, no such perfect conditions can obtain, hence the necessity of the provision for balancing in order to maintain the principle of independent control of each unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Pilcher, an Englishman, continued his experiments, trying the same method of balancing, but in September, 1899, his wings broke, and he met the same fate as his teacher. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I sing the song as 'twas sung to me, said the Count blithely, balancing himself on one foot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Becky consoled herself by so balancing the chances and equalizing the distribution of good and evil in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But the problem of balancing was not yet solved, and here Wilbur and Orville Wright entered upon the scene. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question; and this is here impossible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Cars, holding twenty passengers each, are carried up and down these cables, one car balancing the other, by means of a cable attached to each, which passes around a drum at the top. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here Wegg rose, and balancing himself on his wooden leg, fluttered over his prey with extended hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was this problem of balancing that had cost Lilienthal his life. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The latter provide ease and rapidity of action by a principle of balancing locks in pairs, and are covered by his patent No. 457,528, August 11, 1891, and others of subsequent date. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Study taught them that birds are really aeroplanes, and that buzzards and hawks and gulls stay in the air by balancing on or sliding down rising currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The reference figures are similar to those in the preceding diagram, and all conditions are also alike except that a central compensating, or balancing, conductor, PN, is here introduced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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