Vibration

Examples

• In order to provide against vibration I was obliged to make the frame of the machine much heavier than I first intended. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The buzzer, R, is maintained in rapid vibration by its independent auxiliary battery, B<1S>. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He caught her hand, and she felt in his the vibration of feeling that had not yet risen to his lips. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• To speak plainly, the electric impulses correspond in form and character to the sound vibration which they represent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If the seashell were held to the ear in an absolutely quiet room, no sound would be heard, because there would be no external forces to set into vibration the air within the shell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When one talks into a receiver, _L_, the voice throws into vibration a sensitive iron plate standing before an electromagnet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• After a time the rope slacked, and a gentle vibration stealing up it showed that Gurt had landed safely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The strongest gusts of wind to which the bridge has been exposed have not caused a vibration of more than one inch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The thought has no longer the vibration, requisite to set it perfectly at ease, and indulge its inclination to change. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In the distance the empty, invisible rooms sent forth a vibration almost of obscenity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The cranks of her propeller shafts, like those of the Kaiser Wilhelm and the Oceanic, are set according to the Schlick system, to reduce vibration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A vibration came into Brangwen's strong voice, as he replied: 'Though I shouldn't want her to be in too big a hurry, either. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am not sure that certain fibres in Mr. Garth's mind had not resumed their old vibration towards the very end which now revealed itself to Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here, naturally, different tones arise, corresponding to the different modes of vibration. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When a human being talks or sings, the air within the mouth cavity is thrown into sympathetic vibration and strengthens the otherwise feeble tone of the speaker. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Suppose a note of 800 vibrations per second is sung. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Seashells when held to the ear seem to contain the roar of the sea; this is because the air within the shell is set into sympathetic vibrations by some external tone. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His work with his deaf and dumb pupils was all in the line of making sound vibrations visible to the eye. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• By means of an apparatus called the siren, it is possible to calculate the number of vibrations producing any given musical note, such, for example, as middle C on the piano. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the singer interprets the song the vibrations set up by the singer’s voice are communicated to the diaphragm by the passage of the sound through the horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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.
• These indentations correspond to the vibrations imparted to the needle through the diaphragm, and are the recorded sounds made by the singer or band. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His far-distant goal was to construct a machine that would carry, not the dots and dashes of the telegraph, but the complex vibrations of the human voice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is by means of these three bones that the vibrations of the ear drum are transmitted to the inner wall of the cavity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His study of the effect of vibrations on the human eardrum showed Bell what path he should follow. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The isochronism of the vibrations of the pendulum inferred from this observation was not published or put to practical application in clocks for nearly sixty years afterward. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Reis evidently did not know how to make the vibrations of his diaphragm translate themselves into exactly commensurate and correlated electric impulses of equal rapidity, range, and quality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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