Archimedean machine

Usage examples of lever.

Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.

Speed is controlled by increasing or diminishing the number of armature bearings in series with the accumulator--all of which is simply accomplished by a lever which the pilot moves from his position on deck where he ordinarily lies upon his stomach, his safety belt snapped to heavy rings in the deck.

That night in our apartment, I kept expecting to see two teams of Bunraku masters standing behind John and me, pulling levers in our heads, sculpting every move we made.

We drove off, the machine chuffing and rattling in response to the things she did to a collection of levers.

When I said I could murder the cobber if we fought under low gravity, I must have put an idea into his head, and when we had the fight he stood there waiting at the lever.

In the center of the coolant system was a reactor core with a pistol-grip lever protruding from it that moved the control rods.

Keeping his eyes on the Way, Darr Veter stretched out his hand and turned a lever to point M, ensuring himself solitude for meditation.

The bronze gong sounded as Darr Veter turned over the lever that switched off the stream of transmitted energy.

Finally, after one last, hesitant glance at the living statue before him, he slid the decarbonization lever into place.

Lieutenant Koudelka sat in the aperture, blinking dizzily, blood dripping down his chin, then was levered to his feet by a guard.

I called back my gaze and, to dispel my irritation, began in earnest to use my drumsticks as levers.

There were dozens of levers and gadgets that had to be hooked up, and Durand put them in place so rapidly that there was no chance to follow his movements.

It took but an instant, however, for me to regain the levers, and with the roof barely fifty feet above I turned her nose once more into the horizontal plane and headed her again for the black mouth of the shaft.

The man looked annoyed, and tried, by the skilful use of gasolene and sparking levers, to leave Tom behind.

Jerry, as he shoved the gasolene lever over a trifle, and advanced the spark, thereby increasing the speed of the car.