Word: motor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest motor response and also what sorts of exercise develope these to the greatest degree. If the tests made show that with tennis, fencing, boxing and football there go varying degrees of quickness and accuracy, tables can be prepared and statistics made out which will be very interesting and valuable. The tests...
...pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...
...electrical department of the L. S. S. has been fitted with a Thompson-Houston 500 volt motor and a complete outlay of shop machinery, including 2 machine lathes, 2 speed lathes, drill press and milling machinery...
...prime motor, said the lecturer, is an instrument taking its energy from nature and applying it to the uses of man. All mechanical tasks are done by the overcoming of resistance; in fact the overcoming of resistance is the definition of work...
...latest of Ericsson's inventions was his sun motor, by which the rays of the sun are utilized to heat a steam boiler. Although this motor is not now in use, still it must be regarded as one of the most important inventions of Ericsson's life...