Devised

Examples

• Many special tools, particularly those designed for _bicycle work_, have been devised, as exhibited by patent to Hillman, August 11, 1891, No. 457,718. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Various cut-offs have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1800 Mears devised a machine employing shears. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A very delicate blade devised for very delicate work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1810 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the English navy, devised and introduced the system of diagonal bracing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And he devised a means. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hornblower also in the same year devised a steam carriage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Lefaucheux of France, in the later period, devised a metal _gas check_ cartridge which was a great advance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The human body is a much more varied and complex machine than any ever devised by man; personal peculiarities, as well as fuel values, influence very largely the diet of an individual. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A similar process of embossing, was devised in Paris and called Xyloplasty, by which steam-softened wood is compressed in carved moulds, which give it bas-relief impressions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As early as 1849 Clarke and Motley, in England, invented a machine drill, and in 1851 Fowle devised a similar machine, having the drill attached directly to the piston cross head. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He devised the famous system of a dropping breech block, backed up by the hammer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Similar single machines were in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries devised in Austria and England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Many improvements upon the methods for handling the paper were subsequently devised, and double cylinder presses were made which were able to print 4,000 sheets an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Arsenal at Frankford, Philadelphia, devised a series of cartridge-making machines which ranked among the highest triumphs of American invention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After Watt's system was devised, suggestions and experiments as to road locomotives and carriages were made, and other applications came thick and fast. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For the dressing of the faces of grindstones, special forms of cutting machines have been devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It puzzled you to guess why a garment of handsome materials should be arranged in such scanty folds, and devised after such an obsolete mode. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Intentional agencies--schools--and explicit material--studies--are devised. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thou hast devised the ink, the forms for casting type, and the mixture of metals, he said. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Larger apparatus has been devised to weld railroad joints on the roadbed, and for other applications. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Supposing there was no mistake in the case, and Mr. Murdstone had devised this plan to get rid of me, what should I do? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Brunel, in 1805-1808, devised a set of circular saws run by a steam engine, which cut sheets of rosewood and mahogany, one-fourteenth of an inch thick, with great speed and accuracy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Electric motive power was not devised to supply the great manufacturing establishments of the present. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Various forms of this have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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