Projecting

Examples

• The manufacture of the projecting machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The cylinder stops, and current operates the sluggish press-magnet, causing its armature to be attracted, thus lifting the platen and its projecting arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait—and into futurity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was a small, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a telephone projecting from the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• 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.
• They are very thick, and are often plastered and whitewashed and capped with projecting slabs of cut stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But her side face, which a bonnet might now have allowed me to see, was hidden by the heavy, projecting edge of the hood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Above the blade of a scythe were arranged a set of fingers projecting from a post in the scythe snath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A device for projecting sound-waves to a distance without spreading and in a straight line, on the principle of smoke rings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Close against one side of it, under shelter of the projecting roof, I discovered a little hole in the sand--a hole artificially made, beyond a doubt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They raced wildly after me until, finally, my foot struck a projecting piece of quartz, and down I went sprawling upon the moss. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We can see the long, whale-backed ridge of Mount Hermon projecting above the eastern hills. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The materials are mixed together in a small closed wooden or leaden vessel, provided with an agitator, that can be worked by a handle fixed to a projecting axis at the top. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The illustration (Fig. 2) will show the projecting apparatus as used in practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He afterwards introduced other improvements in the Kaleidoscope, for extending its range of objects, for varying the angles of inclination, and for projecting the figures on a screen. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Story of the Motion-Picture Projecting Machine[69] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The projecting machine is the subject of this story. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This action was beautifully shown by Professor Faraday at the Royal Institution last year, by projecting the image of the charcoal points on to a screen, by means of the Electric Light itself. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The boring bit is a steel thimble about four inches in length, having two rows of Brazilian black diamonds firmly embedded therein, the edges projecting slightly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Edison’s Kinetoscope is covered by patent No. 493,426, March 14, 1893, and his instrument known as the Vitascope, is one of those used for projecting the views upon a screen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• On the other side of the bushes a shoe was projecting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had resumed his seat, the cigar still projecting at an insolent angle from the corner of his mouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This device of the Gauls had lance-shaped knives, or teeth with sharpened sides, projecting from a bar, like guard teeth, but set close together to form a sort of comb. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The reproducing machine, or, as it is called in practice, the Projecting Kinetoscope, is quite similar so far as its general operations in handling the film are concerned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Cheap shoes could only be made by roughly fastening the soles to the uppers by wooden pegs, whose row of projecting points within has made many a man and boy do unnecessary penance. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Fill the bowl of the pipe with small pieces of coal, cover it over with a lump of clay, and then put it into a hot fire, with the stalk of the pipe projecting through the bars. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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