Tubes

Examples

• This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the ventilator should be four or six tin tubes 1/2 inch in diameter and 6 inches long. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were twenty-five of these tubes passing through the boiler, and fixed water-tight at each end. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Britannia Bridge was commenced in May, 1846, and the first of the main tubes was completed in June, 1849. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The deflection of the tubes in the centre amounted to only three-quarters of an inch in each cell; it being rather less when the trains were at full speed than when stationary. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Tubes are inserted into the latter for conveying the gas to the burners. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Metal tubes T T connected the conducting wires F F to the carbons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As I was on all the time, I would take a nap of an hour or so in the daytime--any time--and I used to sleep on those tubes in the cellar. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In many cases the combined use of both exhaust and compression pumps is necessary to secure the desired result; as, for example, in pneumatic dispatch tubes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the so-called wind instruments, sound is produced by vibrating columns of air inclosed in tubes or pipes of different lengths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These canes are terminated by tubes of pipe-clay, to prevent their being burnt, and other bamboo canes conduct the gas intended for lighting the streets, and into large apartments and kitchens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Edison says of this period: When we put down the tubes in the lower part of New York, in the streets, we kept a big stock of them in the cellar of the station at Pearl Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They mould the softened rubber over clay patterns in the form of shoes, jars, vases, tubes, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The form of the tubes is an oval, 17 feet in its longest diameter, and 12 feet in its shortest. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• How are We Able to Hear Through Speaking-Tubes? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The corks should always be boiled in water containing 1 ounce to the gallon, which is also efficient in disinfecting tubes, taps, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• At their front these tubes at their lower ends were sharpened to make small furrows into which the seed dropped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus, in plants, the office of the pistil is to allow the pollen-tubes to reach the ovules within the ovarium. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Two tubes, which were to form the bridge, were made of wrought iron, floated out into the stream, and raised into position. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Four arches form each span, each arch consisting of an upper and lower curved member or rib, extending from pier to pier, and each member composed of two parallel steel tubes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The boiler, which is arranged under the seat, is a vertical cylinder wrapped with piano wire for greater tensile strength, and contains 298 copper tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And as to tube and metal bending, there are wonderful machines which bend sheets of metal into great tubes, funnels, ship masts and cylinders. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He had also now learned to make the lenses adjustable, by fixing the tubes that held them so that they could be drawn out of, or pushed into the main tube of the telescope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On arrival he said to me: 'You are putting down these tubes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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