Switches
[swɪtʃ]
Examples
- Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The data and parts, such as motor, rheostat, switches, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The circuits were opened and closed by means of about half a dozen roughly made plug-switches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here were made all the small things used on the electric-lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Switches were changed a mile in advance by pulling a wire rope that passed along the ground by the rail, from station to station. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Signals for the day and signals for the night gave constant and timely notice of the position of switches. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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