Steering

Examples

• In this way one hand could control both the steering and the balancing of the planes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With sensitive accumulators of this character hydraulic machinery is much used on board ships for steering them, and for loading, discharging and storing cargoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The old lady was evidently accustomed to tell her company what they ought to think, and to regard no subject as quite safe without her steering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The honoured parent steering Northward, had not gone far, when he was joined by another disciple of Izaak Walton, and the two trudged on together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is a case (as a sailor would say) of very fine steering. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This was mounted on two pneumatic-tired wheels which were fitted to the front fork together with necessary steering devices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The tandem rider on the forward seat did the steering and the foot pedaling, and the rear rider operated the motor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A pair of small front steering wheels was arranged to turn about a vertical axis and was manipulated by a handle bar. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The dash unit includes the dash, complete steering gear, coil, horn, and all wiring ready to be attached to the motor, so that its installation is rapid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The bicycle to which this miniature steam-power plant of the Copeland brothers’ invention was attached was one of the old high-wheel models with the small steering wheel forward. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The exposed machinery creaked and groaned, the unguarded paddle-wheels revolved ponderously and splashed a great deal of water, the tiller was badly placed for steering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By the use of the steering apparatus he circled to the right or to the left with the grace of a bird on the wing. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Another important use of the gyroscope is found in its relation to the vertical and horizontal steering gear of the naval torpedo, especially the Whitehead pattern. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now the top of one lever was jointed, so that a sideways movement of the wrist was sufficient to move the rudder for steering in the horizontal plane. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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