Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invention makes a revolution in the forging business. Formerly metals were heated by fire and then pounded into the desired shapes. The one primary improvement effected by the electrical method is that the metals have to be heated but once. An electric current that is held under absolute control is passed through the metal, and by means of delicate mechanism, just the same degree of heat can be maintained in the metal for an indefinite length of time. Under the old method, the metal would soon become cold and have again and again to be heated, so that a great...
...absolute control of the current is therefore the first essential, and Mr. Burton has found that by making the rheostats not out of wire but out of liquids that more perfect control is obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...
...They would benefit the general public. - (b) Present health remedies are insufficient: Forum V. 212; Forth. Rev. LIII, 76. - (c) Remedies at public expense have succeeded in Glasgow, 129-133; Octavia Hill, Homes of the London Poor, 73. - (d) The necessity is so urgent that only municipal control can remedy it within a reasonable time. - (e) It is of the same nature as other enterprises which government looks after...
Wesleyan College has formally assumed control of the new Wesleyan Literary Monthly...
...Monroe Doctrine demands that the U. S. control the canal: Tucker's Monroe Doctrine Chap. i. - (a) No foreign nation should be allowed to get control. - (b) No joint protectorate would be in consonance with the Monroe Doctrine: President Hayes' Message Mar. 8, 1880. Cong...