Conducting

Examples

• The Mexican war was a political war, and the administration conducting it desired to make party capital out of it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nichols was also with us for a short time conducting a special series of experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and 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.
• For this purpose, casts were made of plaster of Paris, which were covered with black lead, to give them the property of conducting electricity, and the metal was then deposited upon them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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.
• In the latter case, pipes closely wrapped with a non-conducting material carry steam long distances underground to heat remote buildings. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The heat of the food cannot escape through the non-conducting material which surrounds it, and hence remains in the food and slowly cooks it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A double walled globular vessel has between its walls air spaces and non-conducting packing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1840 Murray used plumbago to make non-conducting surfaces conductive for electro-plating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The cautery consists of a loop of platinum wire carried by a suitable non-conducting handle, with means for constricting the white hot loop of wire about the tumor or object to be excised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He is blamed, and it would seem that he is rightly blamed, for conducting the war and the ensuing peace negotiations on strictly party lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was left in the air, incapable of conducting sieges or establishing conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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