Types

Examples

• Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is a sort of short dark Welshman, and certain types of Irishmen, who are Iberians by race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The metal casting of each page is very thin, and when required to be used, it is screwed on to blocks of wood to the same height as ordinary types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• She and those stars seemed to me at once the types and witnesses of truth all regnant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• My time, said he, will be out with Keimer in the spring; by that time we may have our press and types in from London. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Hand bombards and culverins were among the early types. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Blowing engines are of horizontal compound and horizontal vertical compound types, capable of blowing a pressure of 25 pounds of air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He likes to mimic and imitate types, generally, that are distasteful to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We had not been long returned to Philadelphia before the new types arrived from London. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the form of printing machines generally used, the types are laid upon an iron table that is moved to and fro by the turning of a wheel connected with a steam engine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Donkin and Bacon proposed placing the types upon a prism, which was to revolve against an irregularly shaped cylinder, on which the paper was to be placed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The most popular and successful, however, of the succeeding types is that of Smith & Wesson, shown in Fig. 276, and covered by many patents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Both of these machines had permanent field magnets, and were early types of magneto-electric machines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Both results may be seen in some types of kindergarten games where the idea of play is so highly symbolic that only the adult is conscious of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There were only three types of faculties or powers in the individual's constitution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Professor Wheatstone and Mr. Bain separately attempted to accomplish this desired object by the invention of Printing Telegraphs, which print messages from types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There are two very distinct types of electric heating elements or burners, the disc or closed type, and the open-coil type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Simply, by the use of some of the machine types mentioned above, illustrations of which are known in a general way to every schoolboy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He saw that pigeon-fanciers and stock-breeders deve lop certain types by preserving those variations that have the desired characteristics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The various types of lenses are shown in Figure 71. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chinese Invented Both Block and Movable Types. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The last three types, called concave lenses, scatter parallel rays so that they do not come to a focus, but diverge widely after passage through the lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In June, 1859, Professor Huxley gave a lecture before the Royal Institution on the Persistent Types of Animal Life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• These tapes catch hold of the sheets of paper, and carry them down to the level of the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Both these types of escalators can be made to move up or down by aid of a swinging switch, or two of them can be placed side by side, one moving upward and the other downward. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Among later types of repeating rifles, known from the names of their inventors, are the Krag-Jorgensen, and the Mauser, and the crack of these is heard around the world. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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