Revolving

Examples

• Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The annexed woodcuts show the figure of this Revolver, with the working parts round the lock exposed to view, together with the shape of the revolving chambered breech. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The wheel is kept revolving, and a man on one side is kept constantly busy in filling the molds with the molten material as they reach him. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It must be revolving by itself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A point worth considering; and while revolving it, I mechanically dressed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The revolving movement ceases after the early growth of each shoot. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I was experimenting, he says, on an automatic method of recording telegraph messages on a disk of paper laid on a revolving platen, exactly the same as the disk talking-machine of to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Can no power stop this awful revolving thing? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Small metal stars are placed in these tumblers with the castings, and when the tumbler is full it is started revolving. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The field magnets in the multipolar machine usually are arranged in radial position around the entire circumference of the revolving armature, and are held in a fixed circular frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To these he next added a revolving reel, that would lift any grain that had fallen and straighten it, and a platform to catch the grain as it was cut and fell. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She had two propellers on the same axis, but revolving in opposite directions, one being on the central shaft and the other on a concentric tube. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The _Hotchkiss_ revolving cannon is another celebrated American production named from its inventor, and constructed to throw heavier projectiles than the Gatling. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The wire is first passed through a series of rapidly revolving, straightening rolls which take out all twists and kinks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was able to make out the mountains in the moon, the satellites of Jupiter in rotation, the spots on the revolving sun; but his telescope afforded only an imperfect view of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In this machine the cylinder is replaced by a revolving disk. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• C, and it consists of a chamber to catch the sound waves and an elastic diaphragm with stylus working on a revolving cylinder bearing a sheet of paper coated with lampblack. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The oranges then pass over automatic sizers--that is, V-shaped rollers revolving horizontally. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The revolving year now bringing the day round in its orderly sequence, Bella arrived in the Boffin chariot to assist at the celebration. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At the end of the assembly line, the rear wheels on the finished chassis drop into a set of revolving grooved wheels, sunk into the concrete floor, and driven by an overhead motor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The revolving disk-shaped cutter E is rotated by a pulley and belt from a drum, which latter is made long enough to accommodate the travel of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There was a sort of disk or moving-shutter movement which, on revolving, gave projected objects the appearance of animation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the Fourdrinier process rags are ground to a pulp by a revolving beater (Fig. 125) working in a tank of water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It consisted of a combination of rollers armed with cutters, attached to a horizontal shaft revolving at a great speed, and of means for feeding the boards to the cutters. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Typist: Marcus