Hammers

Examples

• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• These hammers are inked from a pad, and at a central point deliver a printing blow on the paper below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• These are driven in by heavy hammers until the stratum is cut through. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thereupon, I had brought in all our hammers, one after another, but without avail. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The accompanying woodcut represents the largest of the four steam-hammers in Keyham factory. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As the hammers move back the mainspring is compressed, and when the dog B is removed from the notch by pulling on the trigger, the hammers are released and the gun fired. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The lap-welded barrel was standard until 1850, and he got together a battery of trip hammers for forging and welding his barrels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This shop has a floor space of 22,000 square feet and is thoroughly equipped with the necessary hammers, presses, furnaces, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The second method utilizes great steam hammers weighing 125 tons, and striking Titanic blows upon the yielding metal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I was good enough for you and your old lady once, when I helped you out with your weal and hammers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Erard particularly made many improvements in that and in the nineteenth century in the piano, its hammers and keys, and Southwell of Dublin in the dampers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The old way of hammering by hand was first succeeded by powerful stamp hammers worked by steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This feature is the arranging of a row of hammers in a circle so that when put in motion they will all strike the same place, which is the centre of that circle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This hides the hammers in the breech and cocks them by the act of breaking down the gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They have hook-shaped handles at the upper end, and terminate below in forks that are pivoted to the shanks of type hammers, to raise and lower them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In addition to the use of anaesthetics, improvements have been made in nearly every form of dental instruments, such as forceps, dental engines, pluggers, drills, hammers, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hammers (Fig. 102), tack-lifters, scissors, forceps, are important levers, and if you will notice how many different levers (fig. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Instruments in which the strings are set into motion by hammers--piano. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This promotes safety by causing the hammers to be normally and automatically held away from the firing pins. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The hammers A are constructed as elbow levers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The lower front portions of the hammers are extended forward and curved inwardly toward each other, so that their inner ends nearly meet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The din of hammers, the rushing of steam, and the dead heavy clanking of engines, was the harsh music which arose from every quarter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A metal tube with a perforated lower end is driven down by hammers into the ground, and furnishes a quick and cheap source of water supply. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Pegged rollers were the earliest form for this purpose, and later corrugated rollers and power-worked hammers were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So, taking hammers and mallets, they broke the precious forms of type into thousands of fragments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Prior to Cort's time the plastic lump or ball of metal taken from the furnace was generally beaten by hammers, but Cort's grooved rollers pressed out the mass into sheets. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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