Wires

Examples

• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Wires from the coil terminate on metal disks and are securely soldered there. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As if her eyes and her chin worked together on the same wires. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• 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.
• The exchange is connected by private telegraph wires and ticker wires with every important financial center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gas pipes or water pipes are sometimes employed for the attachment of the wires instead of an earth-plate, but the latter is generally preferred. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• For instance, in the very earliest days of electric lighting, the safe insulation of two bare wires fastened together was a serious problem that was solved by him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Metal tubes T T connected the conducting wires F F to the carbons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When he had completed his experiment all interest in it was lost, and the jars and wires would be left to any fate that might befall them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were all linked together by slender wires. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Another difficulty attending the use of insulated wires buried in the ground arises from a very peculiar condition of electrical conduction, that could scarcely have been anticipated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The boy was thrashed and his bottles and wires thrown out. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pablo cut the telephone wires before the assault on the barracks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is supported by four iron wire cables, each consisting of 1056 wires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It would strike on the wires, he says, with an explosion like a cannon-shot, making that office no place for an operator with heart-disease. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The copper wires connecting the instruments to the switchboard were small, crystallized, and rotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In some manner two wires had got crossed with this tinsel, which became red-hot, and the whole mass was soon afire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It presents, therefore, much less difficulty in the insulation of the wires than frictional electricity, whilst the rapidity of its transmission is for practical purposes equally efficient. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In addition, it is seen that the short wires which produce the high tones are fine, while the long wires which produce the low tones are coarse. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The method of supporting the wires on tall posts was then adopted by Mr. Cooke, the wires being insulated from the posts at the points of suspension, by passing them through quills. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• We placed legs on an inverted beaker, and held the two ends of the wires on glass rods eight inches long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The cost of the same number of wires at the present day would not be one-half that sum, with thicker wires and better insulation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The terminals of the wires _a_ and _b_ extend to the point of utilization of the current, whether this be electric lights, motors, or other applications. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• An impression like a fine bundle of telegraph wires ran down the centre of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A piano gives out sound whenever a player strikes the keys and sets in motion the various wires within the piano; speech and song are caused by the motion of chest, vocal cords, and lips. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Make holes above for your cartridges and attach wires of any length. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The men, attached to brigades or divisions, would all commence at once raising the wires with their telegraph poles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Three wires stranded together ran from the central office to each instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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