Lever harps, however, do not have pedals or rods, and the pillar's only purpose in these instruments is to hold up the neck against the great strain of the strings.

Lever harps are considerably lighter in weight than pedal harps and are smaller in size and number of strings.

Lever harps are often tuned to the key C or E-flat.

Trumpeter Harry James, in his 1942 arrangement of Eric Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon, made use of the " Lever du jour " music from Daphnis et Chloë for its opening.

Lever toys are mechanical toys that use the mechanical advantage of a lever to transmit and transform movement.

Lever toys can use cranks and cams too.

Lever locks generally use a bitted key.

It has a 7 Lever eastern region ground frame in it and all the levers are in use.

Other tenants on the Lever industrial estate also made use of the dock's facilities.

In 1936, Lever Brothers, part of the large corporation Unilever, introduced Spry Vegetable Shortening as a competitor to the long-successful shortening Crisco, produced by Procter & Gamble.

In 1907 Walter A. Sheaffer patented the Lever filler, using a hinged lever set into the pen barrel which pressed down onto a bar which in turn compressed the rubber sac inside, creating a vacuum to force ink into the pen.

Lever action firearms uses a lever to eject and chamber cartridges.

The switch mechanism, shown in black, may be operated remotely using an electric motor or hand-operated lever or from a nearby Lever frame # Ground frames | ground frame.

1741: John Wyatt, mechanic and inventor, designs and constructs a cart-weighing machine, later referred to as a Compound Lever Weighing machine, the design works by way of levers which hold in place a platform, no matter where the weight is placed the load is transferred to a central lever.

The current signal box was built in 1882 and had an impressive 108 Lever frame controlling the station, goods yard and carriage sidings, this was later replaced on 14 November 1934 with a 72 lever frame.

Image: Eva Gonzalès-Le Petit Lever. jpg | Le petit lever, Private Collection 1875

The curb action is minimal to mild, however, because the shanks have short purchase arms and no lever arms ( see Lever ).

" Brussels was indeed a superb place for the observation of half-pay officers, such as Major Monsoon ( Commissioner Meade ), Captain Bubbleton and the like, who terrorized the taverns of the place with their endless peninsular stories, and of English society a little damaged, which it became the specialty of Lever to depict.

In pages of O ' Malley and Tom Burke Lever anticipates not a few of the best effects of Marbot, Thibaut, Lejeune, Griois, Seruzier, Burgoyne and the like.

However, Sampson, Lever, and others were unsatisfied with the lack of such protest from Elizabeth's bishops, such as Cox, Edmund Grindal, Pilkington, Sandys, Jewel, and Parkhurst, even though some, like Sandys and Grindal, were reluctant conformists with nonconformist sympathies.

Some people may have remained out of the fight, and others, like Lever, changed sides over time.

David Norris was born in Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, now known as Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father ( John Norris ) worked as chief engineer for Lever Brothers.

Lever Brothers was sold to a US capital firm Pensler Capital Corporation and renamed Korex in 2008.

But, depressed in spirit as Charles Lever was, his wit was unextinguished ; he was still the delight of the salons with his stories, and in 1867, after a few years ' experience of a similar kind at Spezia, he was cheered by a letter from Lord Derby offering him the more lucrative consulship of Trieste.

At that time hydrogenated vegetable oil was imported in India by a Dutch company, Dada & Co. Dada & Co, insisted that the branded product should reflect their name, hence in a bid to establish their ownership of the brand Hindustan UniLever introduced the letter ‘ L ’ for Lever into the name ; and thus was born DALDA, one of the longest-living brands in India.

The collection begins with an undated, unaddressed letter, but it appears in another tract attributed to Gilby ( A pleasaunt Dialogue, betweene a Souldior of Barwicke and an English Chaplaine ), where it is dated May 10, 1566, and is addressed to Miles Coverdale, William Turner, Whittingham, Sampson, Humphrey, Lever, Crowley, " and others that labour to roote out the weedes of Poperie.

The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers, as sponsors and producers.

Morris's painting installation on the ceiling of the Lever House in Manhattan, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, was also titled " Robert Towne ".

Bulova Watch Co., Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York.

In 1876, James Starley developed the Coventry Lever Tricycle, which used two small wheels on the right side and a large drive wheel on the left side ; power was supplied by hand levers.

Unilever was founded on 1 January 1930 by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh and William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme.

The American unit has headquarters in New Jersey, and no longer maintains a presence at Lever House, the iconic skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York City.

Before seriously embarking upon his medical studies, Lever visited Canada as an unqualified surgeon on an emigrant ship, and has drawn upon some of his experiences in Con Cregan, Arthur O ' Leary and Roland Cashel.

Before Harry Lorrequer appeared in volume form ( 1839 ), Lever had settled on the strength of a slight diplomatic connection as a fashionable physician in Brussels ( Hertogstraat 16 ).

" Lever had never taken part in a battle himself, but his next three books, Charles O ' Malley ( 1841 ), Jack Hinton and Tom Burke of Ours ( 1843 ), written under the spur of the writer's chronic extravagance, contain some splendid military writing and some of the most animated battle-pieces on record.

In June 1842 he welcomed at Templeogue, four miles southwest of Dublin, the author of the Snob Papers on his Irish tour ( the Sketch Book was, later, dedicated to Lever ).

Charles Holden was born on 12 May 1875 at Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire ; he was the fifth and youngest child of Joseph Holden ( 1842 – 1918 ), a draper and milliner, and Ellen Holden ( née Broughton, 1841 – 1890 ).

Image: Garden2315. jpg | The Garden of the Hesperides, oil on canvas painting, 1892, Lady Lever Art Gallery

Image: 1876 Frederic Leighton-Daphnephoria. jpg | Daphnephoria, oil on canvas painting, 1874 – 1876, Lady Lever Art Gallery

She was employed as a shorthand typist at Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight before marrying Harold Wilson on New Year's Day, 1940.

Lever re-endowed Bolton Schools, giving land and his house on Chorley New Road.

* Charles Luckman-President of Lever Brothers, architect, and member of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights

In 1914, with the passage of the Smith – Lever Act of 1914, Congress agreed to share with the states the cost of programs for providing what had come to be called " county agents ," who furnished farmers information on improved methods of husbandry developed by the agricultural colleges and agricultural experiment stations.

on " Bachelor Father " Jim Varney's character " Ernest P. Worrell ", Chris Farley, Rowan Atkinson's " Mr. Bean ", Johnny Lever, Jaleel White's character " Steve Urkel " on Family Matters, and Benny Hill are all examples of comedians who employ physical comedy as a medium for their characters.

The son of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever, and Judith Kynaston, and older brother of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley, he was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1646, and succeeded in his father's baronetcy on 25 June 1674.

According to 16th century sources, it was spoken at the Upstalsboom in Aurich where Frisian judges meet on Pentecost and it is traditionally answered with Lever dood as Slaav, or in English, rather dead than slaves.

In 1907, Smith was famously asked to give an opinion on a proposed defamation action by the Lever Brothers against newspapers owned by Lord Northcliffe concerning allegations of a conspiracy to raise the price of soap by means of a ' soap trust '.

A one off example of Lever action reloading on automatic firearms is the M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun.