Plates

Examples

• I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Let me see the plates. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The 'young gal' likewise occasioned me some uneasiness: not so much by neglecting to wash the plates, as by breaking them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The plates came that afternoon, the doctor had said by God he would have them that afternoon and he did. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In 1838 Prof. Jacobi announced his galvano-plastic process for the production of electrotype plates for printing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Other shells have been invented carrying a high explosive and capable of penetrating armour plates of great thickness, and exploding after such penetration has taken place. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These photographs, which may be considered the first durable ones that had been obtained, were, with one exception, taken on plates made of pewter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first embossed metal plates were linked together in the form of an endless chain, similar to the rubber type plates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The carbon disk is represented by the black portion, E, near the diaphragm, A, placed between two platinum plates D and G, which are connected in the battery circuit, as shown by the lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fig.?3 shows how these rest upon the plates and how they are tied together so as to least interfere with the filling of the silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Watch-cases, clock-cases, and dial-plates for clocks and watches, have been prohibited to be exported. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Accordingly, in 1784, he made a hollow sheet-iron box of plates, and supplied it with steam from the boiler of the establishment. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In Fig. 64 is shown a modification of the Planté type of storage battery, composed of a series of plates shown on the left. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The extreme minuteness and delicacy of the electrotype process is strikingly exemplified in its application to the transference of engraved copper-plates. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled-iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It consists of copper plates on a network of iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the coming of the metal card index addressograph and the modern graphotype for making the metal address plates, the addressing machine business was revolutionized, as Mr. Duncan put it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As soon as the plates are immersed in the acid solution, minute bubbles of gas rise from the zinc strip and it begins to waste away slowly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sensitive plates are left to dry in dark rooms, and when the coating has become absolutely firm and dry, the plates are packed in boxes and sent forth for sale. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The letters, when once set up, are cast in plates of entire pages, so that they can be kept for use whenever they are wanted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The greengrocer put on a pair of wash-leather gloves to hand the plates with, and stationed himself behind Mr. Tuckle's chair. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His drawings were on metal plates that would not stretch nor shrink by the fraction of a hair. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In this complete form, these address plates were filed in steel filing drawers like ordinary paper cards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was essential to have a multitude of plates of bread and butter, varied in sorts and plentiful in quantity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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