Connecting

Examples

• This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There's where the ball-room's to be, with a gallery connecting it: billiard-room and so on above. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A large number of baths can be run by this apparatus by connecting them with a bath fed by it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Why, Esther, said he, breaking into a smile, our visitor and you are the two last persons on earth I should have thought of connecting together! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sir William Henry Preece, by using an induced current, had telegraphed several miles without a connecting wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By connecting them in series this potential is doubled, thus providing a main circuit (P and N) of 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By connecting X to the gas-pipe we drew sparks from the gas-pipes in any part of the room by drawing an iron wire over the brass jet of the cock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The copper wires connecting the instruments to the switchboard were small, crystallized, and rotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This accident demonstrated that some other method of connecting the armature with the driven axle should be arranged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I then put up a long shaft, connecting all the governors together, and thought this would certainly cure the trouble; but it didn't. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When the wireless operator wishes to send a message to another station he listens in, as it is called, by connecting his receiving apparatus with the adjacent antenna and the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I shall not associate him in our conversation with your intimacy and encouragement; pray do not persist in connecting him with mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The current passes from one binding post and its connecting wire, through the wire on the spool, and thence to the other connecting wire and binding post. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• By nine o'clock at night he was in possession of five of these redans and, of course, of the connecting lines of rifle-pits. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Instead of connecting directly with present activities, it is remote, divorced from the means by which it is to be reached. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Transmission over the Zone is effected through four substations and a connecting high voltage transmission line which follows the main line of the Panama Railroad. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A few were to land east of the mouth of the South Chickamauga, capture the pickets there, and then lay a bridge connecting the two banks of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On connecting the two surfaces by means of a metallic discharger having a non-conducting handle a spark is obtained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A connecting link is found in the stories, traditions, songs, and liturgies which accompany the doings and rites of a primitive social group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Cuneus, a pupil of Muschenbroeck, was one day trying to charge some water in a glass bottle with electricity by connecting it with a chain to the sparking knob of an electrical machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From there a railroad runs east, connecting with other roads leading to all points of the Southern States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A large number of baths can be run by this contrivance by simply connecting them, by means of rubber tubes, with a reservoir replenished by an inverted bottle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He demonstrated this by placing the filings between metal plugs in a glass tube, and connecting this in circuit with a battery and electric indicator. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The logical outcome is a Pacific cable, a bill for which, connecting San Francisco and Honolulu, has already passed the United States Senate. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They rise above sense, and become a connecting link with the world of ideas. Plato. The Republic.
• She had a double acting Watt engine, which transmitted power by a connecting rod to a crank on the paddle-wheel shaft. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It comprises a great array of annunciator drops, spring jacks with plug seats, and connecting cords with metal plugs at their opposite ends. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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