Operating

Examples

• The telegraph operating-room was in a deplorable condition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There were supposed to be Italian troops concentrated in Soria, and at Siguenza again besides those operating in the North. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If she had succeeded in doing so, the intricate knot which I was slowly and patiently operating on might perhaps have been cut by circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Thus they not only had a greater investment than necessary in the truck itself, but were paying an exclusive charge in the way of operating costs and depreciation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With federal, state, and municipal authorities in existence, with courts, district attorneys, police all operating, they create another arm of prosecution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The water thus discharged passes through a diversion channel in the old bed of the Chagres River, generating, by an enormous electric plant, the power necessary for operating the locks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By these instructions a large part of the armies operating against Richmond is left behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the time he was operating in this way he killed, wounded and captured several times the number he ever had under his command at any one time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I've been here all the time operating. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They produced a machine in which the best of the European features are said to be combined with the operating ease and simplicity of American-made machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By operating steadily to call out certain acts, habits are formed which function with the same uniformity as the original stimuli. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Many patents have been granted for apparatus operating on this principle, and it has been put to some practical use in country houses, and seaside resorts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The sequel showed the value of Edison's cautious method in starting the station by operating only a single unit at first. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They did not realize that the demand for cotton cloth was far greater than the supply, and that they could all be profitably employed operating the spinning-jenny. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Sloan, in 1851, and Harvey, in 1864, made many improvements in machines, operating upon screw blanks. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Jacquard’s invention consisted in individualizing and differentiating the movement of the warp threads, instead of operating them in constant groups. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But formation here has a technical meaning dependent upon the idea of something operating from without. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One day he came into the operating-room, and passing a table he heard Louisville calling Cincinnati. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A musical instrument operating one of Helmholtz's artificial larynxes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It might be well to explain that the lamp-socket appliances are those operating from the light socket and are built to carry not over 660 watts of current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This instrument was improved and it gave rise to the contrivance of many delicate surgical instruments for operating on the eye. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Also The combination of a needle and a shuttle, or equivalent, and holding surfaces, constructed and operating substantially as described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He may now ride, if he so choose, and the machine which carries him furnishes the motive power for operating the supply and cut-off of the grain at intervals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Every human creature resembles ourselves, and by that means has an advantage above any other object, in operating on the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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