Word: motor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken down by the instrument, provided it is kept in motion. The necessity of keeping the crank revolving is what insures me an audience which remains awake," and the professor smiled grimly. "A few of the wealthier students, however, own note-takers which are run by a small electric motor, and these luxurious individuals send their instruments by some friend, and save themselves the trouble of coming." - Cornell...
...their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor. It is useless for the faculty to attempt to rejuvenate the sickly sward while it is the camping ground of muckerism. Never has the college been so troubled by this form of torment, and never has the condition of the yard been so deplorable. It is needless to draw conclusions, they...
...have developed into an inventive genius. In the first place, I invented questions that floored the instructor in Mathematics o; then I got up a table which, being written on one inch of cuff, will solve all problems of the differential calculus; and, finally, I invented a mathematical motor. Without telling the secret of this (which of course I intend to keep to myself) I can tell that, impelled by this motor, one can sail through boundless realms of space with the speed of thought...
...corner of the room. "That is Fourth Dimension, our greatest philosopher. He is the inventor of the process by which a wooden box may be turned inside out. He is showing his latest discovery." I approached him to see the novelty, when behold! it was my mathematical motor! "Thief," I cried, "that invention is mine! "Snatching it from his hand, I was about to hide it from the spectators, when it started off, and, taking me with it, suddenly landed me unhurt at home...