Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today's standards.

Most of today's Ossetians are Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Most of today's desktop computers have one of the three major operating systems available.

Most scholars believe this culture is not derived from the Changbinian, but was brought across the Strait by the ancestors of today's Taiwanese aborigines, speaking early Austronesian languages.

Most historians prefer to use the term " Frankish Kingdoms " or " Frankish Realm " to refer to the area covering parts of today's Germany and France from the 5th to the 9th century.

Most of the today's buildings on the wharf including the Bay Street Theatre were built during this time.

Most of today's castle was constructed in the 18th century, following plans from Vauban.

Most of these became extinct before they were recorded, so the only trace of these ancient dialects is some words borrowed into local dialects of today's Croatia.

Most of today's sites handle buyer and seller payments, and usually deduct a small commission only after the sale is completed.

Most of today's Jyväskylä was built after the Continuation war, when refugees from Karelia and other parts of the country moved to the city and housing was badly needed.

Most of today's large industrial facilities such as the Kremikovtsi steelworks and the Chervena Mogila engineering works were built under Zhivkov.

Most of these solutions use stylus-based haptic rendering, where the user interfaces to the virtual world via a tool or stylus, giving a form of interaction that is computationally realistic on today's hardware.

Most of today's guitar pick shapes were created by the company that made the first plastic pick in 1922, D ' Andrea Picks.

Most of today's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e. g., Fox Searchlight ) or genre films ( e. g., Sony's Screen Gems ); several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010.

Most vehicles in today's collections are of Swiss origin.

Most of the American Flyer-branded product sold by Lionel, LLC today is reissues of 1950s designs utilizing refurbished old Gilbert tooling, decorated in traditional road names and paint schemes used by Gilbert, as well as an influx of some of today's modern railroad heralds.

Most commonly, investors are risk-averse and today's price is below the expectation, remunerating those who bear the risk.

Most of today's appliances produce sound pressure levels between 45 and 120 decibels at ten feet.

Most of today's Mexican cuisine is based on pre-Hispanic traditions, including the Aztecs, Maya, and the Indigenous peoples of Mexico combined with culinary trends introduced by Spanish colonists.

Most of today's consumer electronics are now RoHS compliant, examples include Apple's iPod portable music players, Dell and HP home computers and servers, Nintendo's Wii, Motorola and Nokia's wireless phones, Netgear routers, and Panasonic televisions and appliances.

Most of today's major pharmaceutical companies were founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Most of today's actors on stage, television, and film owe much to Stanislavski's system.

Most of their knowledge was lost after the disaster, and today's Spellbinders only have a limited understanding of the science their technology is based on.

Most greened quartz ( Oro Verde ) is also irradiated to achieve the yellow-green color.

Most sandstone is composed of quartz and / or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust.

Most pegmatites are composed of quartz, feldspar and mica ; in essence a granite.

Most sedimentary rocks contain either quartz ( especially siliciclastic rocks ) or calcite ( especially carbonate rocks ).

Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches used mainly for timekeeping are electronic watches with quartz movements.

Most quartz movements are primarily electronic but are geared to drive mechanical hands on the face of the watch in order to provide a traditional analog display of the time, which is still preferred by some consumers.

Most modern metronomes are electronic and use a quartz crystal to maintain accuracy, comparable to those used in wristwatches.

Most common in laser pumping applications is the " rod seal ", where the rod of the electrode is wetted with another type of glass and then bonded directly to a quartz tube.

Most geodes contain clear quartz crystals, while others have purple amethyst crystals.

Most commonly cracks and fissures opened by tectonic activity ( folding and faulting ) are partially filled by quartz, calcite, and other secondary minerals.

Most of the soil in Balikpapan contains yellow-reddish podsolic soil and alluvial and quartz sand, making it extremely prone to erosion.

Most of the sand, made of 98 % translucent, rounded-grain quartz, was transported from coastal sand dunes to the west, in what is now central Nevada.

Most of the gold was found in eroded rock ( saprolite ) and mixed in with quartz.

# Most plentiful are rounded boulders and cobbles and angular fragments, all deeply weathered, of Half Dome quartz monzonite, the light-colored granite of which not only Half Dome, but all of the Little Yosemite and its surrounding heights are composed.

Most streams in the park have small amounts of gold, since it is constantly being removed from the quartz exposures by weathering.

Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.

Most are used for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones.

Most municipalities-despite originally supporting time zone unification at their annual meetings-responded to the government initiative with overt resistance, leading to an amazing popular stand-off where Hamlets ran clocks at their preferred time and schools and airports frequently operated on another.

Most of his surviving clocks are longcase clocks being of universally high quality incorporating such features as long going, frequent use of deadbeat escarpments, six spoke wheels, high count trains, repeating, enclosed movements, and a general high standard of workmanship at least equal to that of London makers of the time.

Most modern clocks have the numbers 1 through 12 printed at equally spaced intervals around the periphery of the face with the 12 at the top, indicating the hour, and on many models, sixty dots or lines evenly spaced in a ring around the outside of the dial, indicating minutes and seconds.

Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist.

Most longcase clocks are striking clocks, which means they sound the time on each hour or fraction of an hour.

Most longcase clocks are cable-driven, meaning that the weights are suspended by cables.

Most of the gross inaccuracy of verge and foliot clocks was not due to the escapement itself, but to the foliot oscillator.

Most clocks were rebuilt with their foliots replaced by pendula, to the extent that it is difficult to find original verge and foliot clocks intact today.

Most fusee clocks include a ' winding stop ' mechanism to prevent the mainspring and fusee from being wound up too far, possibly breaking the chain.

Most modern projection clocks use a red LED-based projector, and also an ordinary LED or LCD display to enable time reading when ambient light is too bright for the projection to be seen.

Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24 hour format ; in the United States and a few other countries, a more commonly used hour sequence option is 12 hour format ( with some indication of AM or PM ).