Graduated

Examples

• It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So that if you want to measure the length of anything you use a rule or a yard stick, or some other scale which is graduated into fractions of the whole standard measure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So far as we at present know there were four forms of time-measuring instruments known to antiquity--the sun-dial, the clepsydra or water clock, the hour-glass, and the graduated candle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The altitude was recorded according to the position of the sight attached to the graduated arc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Cincinnati office, as a central point, appears to have been attractive to many of the clever young operators who graduated from it to positions of larger responsibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At first only enough was introdu ced to fill the arch, or bent part of the tube below the graduated legs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• At Cambridge he graduated without distinction at t he beginning of 1831. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The observation was made through one of two sights that were attached to the graduated arc and could be moved from point to point on it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As far as I know, every boy who has entered West Point from that village since my time has been graduated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is equally true that in Edison and the many men who have graduated from his stern school of endeavor, America has had its foremost seat of electrical engineering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The incense sticks of the Chinese, the combustion of which proceeded so slowly and regularly as to render them available for time measures, were the precursors of the graduated candles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Both graduated before him and ranked him in the old army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The graduated candles are chiefly notable as to their use, if not invention, by Alfred the Great in about 883. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Graduating in 1843, I was at the military academy from one to four years with all cadets who graduated between 1840 and 1846--seven classes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this year of his second great triumph Pasteur was appointed director of science studies in the Ecole Normale, from which he had graduated in 1847. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Into th e opening of the longer leg, also graduated, mercury was poured. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This scale is carefully graduated by the following method. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Checked by Dora