Dials
[daiəlz]
Examples
- This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By this time great astronomers like Tycho Brahe and Valherius had divided the time-recording dials into minutes and seconds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was the first calculating machine made with dials. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Callahan removed the two dials, and, substituting type wheels, turned the movements face to face, so that each type wheel could imprint its characters upon a paper tape in two lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A third took the time from two clock dials when the observer gave the signal, and the exact moment of o bservation was also recorded by student number two. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And in Rome the sun-dials, the clepsydras and the hour-glass were used for the same purpose, and more generally than in Greece, to regulate the hours of business and pleasure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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