Revolutions

Examples

• From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. Plato. The Republic.
• These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When rotating at the rate of 788 revolutions in a minute, and lifting the water 19·4 feet, the greatest practical effect, compared with the power employed, was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The proportion between them, therefore, must remain the same, and cannot well be altered, at least for any considerable time, by any such revolutions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Prior to 1878 the speed of the average spindle was limited to 5,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is a revolutionary task, and like all real revolutions it will not be done in a day or a decade because someone orders it to be done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The average performance of the engines was 26 strokes per minute, and the number of revolutions of the screw in the same time was 138?. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That the great affairs of the world, the wars, revolutions, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Sims, and he undertook to build an engine to run at three hundred and fifty revolutions and give one hundred and seventy-five horse-power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The cotton passed through the two pairs of rollers, and its extension depended entirely on the difference in the velocity of the revolutions of the two pairs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A speed of 30,000 revolutions a minute may be attained by this construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The ordinary revolutions of war and government easily dry up the sources of that wealth which arises from commerce only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The engine runs from 300 to 400 revolutions per minute and develops from four to five horse power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were practically unknown then, and when he went to an engine builder and said that he wanted a 150 horse-power engine that would run 700 revolutions per minute he was told it was impossible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Violent revolutions may be charged up to the unreadiness of statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The shop was built on a shale hill, and when the engine was started the whole hill shook with the high speed revolutions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here the people live who begin the revolutions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The instrument is so constructed that clockwork at the top registers the number of revolutions made by the disk in one second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The water rushing through the wheel turns it and its shaft many hundred revolutions a minute. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He replied: 'Everything is red-hot, and the ampere-meter has made seventeen revolutions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the French revolutions this double revolt is clear and plain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1878 improvements were made which doubled its working speed and permitted as high as 20,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One engine would stop, and the other would run up to about a thousand revolutions, and then they would see-saw. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is out of culture that the substance of real revolutions is made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I see no reason for exalting the unconscious failures of other revolutions into deliberate models for the next one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There were also counter-revolutions, deliberate returns to orthodoxy, as in the case of Chesterton. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I look backward and consider its first foundation; its several revolutions, successes, and misfortunes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Barbarian world was agitated by the rapid impulse of war; and the peace of Gaul or Italy was shaken by the distant revolutions of China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is a circular saw that cuts through bars of iron as thick as railway rails, by making upwards of 1,000 revolutions per minute. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He showed me a gyroscope he had got up which made the incredible number of 4000 revolutions in a second. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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