Punching

Examples

• Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of punching Morse characters in the transmission tape however, it was perforated with a series of small round holes forming Roman letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The first machines worked all right for the inventor, but inexperienced operators obtained surprising results through punching the keys and jerking the crank. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The baths are made by punching a hole near the lower edge of a fruit can and inserting a cork and short piece of glass tube. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I shall be very sorry to lose him next year, said Mr. Brooke, busily punching holes in the turf. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Punching engines, in like manner, force holes through iron plates an inch thick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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