Mechanics

Examples

• A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then came Julius Griffith, in 1821, of Brompton, who patented a steam carriage which was built by Joseph Bramah, one of the ablest mechanics of his time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Trade sharpens wer wits; and them that's mechanics like me is forced to think. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In 1840 Davenport, by means of his electric motor, printed a news sheet called the _Electro Magnet and Mechanics’ Intelligencer_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were two centuries each of mechanics and musicians, and the _proletarii_ made up one century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it required the work of the chemists as well as the mechanics to produce the best gas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It looked an insignificant thing to have conferred upon the world of science and mechanics such a mighty extension of their dominions as it has. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were all mechanics and hated the war. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The emphasis which directs his thinking bears most heavily upon the mechanics of life--only perfunctorily upon the ability of the men who are to use them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• One of them (Archytas, 428-347 B.. a friend o f Plato) was the first to apply geometry to mechanics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It involves the structure of the limbs and the nervous system; the principles of mechanics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With a strong taste for mechanics it was natural that he should wonder if there were not some way of lightening the burden of so much needlework. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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