Some examples include: to develop reasoning about perennial questions, to master the methods of scientific inquiry, to cultivate the intellect, to create positive change agents, or simply to teach pupils how to think.

Some master smiths go as far as to use techniques such as electrical discharge machining to cut interlocking patterns out of different steels, fit them together, then weld the resulting assembly into a solid block of steel.

Some centuries-old violin scrolls, for instance, still carry the tool marks of the master that made them, working rapidly and efficiently.

Some of the most often-quoted characterisations of Leicester, such as that he " was wont to put up all his passions in his pocket ", his nickname of " the Gypsy ", and Elizabeth's " I will have here but one mistress and no master "- reprimand to him, were contributed by Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Robert Naunton almost half a century after the Earl's death.

Some of these works were supervised by William MacDowall, the master of work who fifteen years earlier had repaired David's Tower.

Some fire departments use aerial ladder platforms ( ALPs ), or aerial water towers, the purpose of which is to deploy an elevated master stream of water, although it does not provide any access for firefighters.

Some companies, such as Mobile Fidelity, produced audiophile cassettes in the 1980s, which were recorded on high-grade tape and duplicated on premium equipment in real time from a digital master.

Some Minnesänger, as indicated by the title Meister ( master ), were clearly educated commoners, such as Meister Konrad von Würzburg.

Some master links are bevelled on top, and can interfere with the smooth operation of a derailleur system.

Some of the ideas he suggested are the same as or closely related to the final design, including idea of supporting the dish at its centre, the geodetic structure of the dish, and the master equatorial control system.

Some early London Records US pressings of the single had a technical flaw in them: about halfway through the song's instrumental bridge, the speed of the master tape slows down for a moment, then comes back to speed.

Some of the SQ mixes are still present on CDs, especially on early, non-remastered editions, on which the original master is, in itself, SQ.

Some classes and super powers ( such as the ancient master class or the invulnerability power ) started very powerful but hardly matured, while other classes and powers had effects strongly tied to character level.

Some time after 1571, he left Oxford to become master of a school at Sandwich, Kent, where he died in 1610.

Some researchers have made effective use of a Piagetian methodology, taking tasks which human children are known to master at different stages of development, and investigating which of them can be performed by particular species.

Some more-sophisticated power strips have a master and slave socket arrangement, and when the " master " socket detects standby mode in the attached appliance's current it turns off the whole strip.

Some countries, such as Denmark, require apprenticeship with a master clock or watch maker, which can last up to four years.

Some of the scholars quickly settled in Irish monasteries, while others wandered from one master to another in search of knowledge.

Some 2 inch Quadruplex videotape master copies of Take Hart episodes were irretrievably junked by Adam Lee of the BBC archives in 1993 on the assumption that they were ' no use ' and that examples of some other episodes were sufficient.

Some students work here as apprentices under the master printer.

Some conspiracy theorists would eventually speculate that some of the Founding Fathers of the United States, such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, of having Masonic sacred geometric designs interwoven into American society, particularly in the Great Seal of the United States, the United States one-dollar bill, the architecture of National Mall landmarks, and the streets and highways of Washington, D. C., as part of a master plan.

Some of the remixes from the stolen master tapes released in Russia were not included.

Some master headends also house telephony equipment for providing telecommunications services to the community.

Some modern debug architectures, like ARM CoreSight and Nexus, provide internal and external bus master access without needing to halt and take over a CPU.

Some authors, however, write about water clocks appearing as early as 4000 BC in these regions of the world.

Some motors are powered by potential energy, for example some funiculars, gravity plane and ropeway conveyors have used potential energy of water or rocks, and some clocks have a weight that falls under gravity.

Some mimosas raise their leaves in day and lower them at night, and experiments done by Jacques d ' Ortous de Mairan on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological clocks.

Some higher latitude countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by changing clocks by an hour.

Some clocks have a timing adjustment ( a fast-slow control ).

Some of the John Harrison clocks still operate after hundreds of years because of the lignum vitae wood employed in their construction, whereas his metal clocks are seldom run due to potential wear.

Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of a Pseudo-Archimedes.

Some musical quartz clocks also reproduce many of the popular automata found on mechanical musical clocks, such as beer drinkers, wood choppers, jumping deer, and angry wives beating lazy husbands.

Some " traditional " style cuckoo clocks feature a music box and dancing figurines too.

Some authors, however, claim that water clocks appeared in China as early as 4000 BC.

Some clocks, called equation clocks, included an internal mechanism to perform this correction.

Some clocks towers are famously known landmarks.

Some special-purpose clocks, such as timers and sporting event clocks, are designed for measuring periods less than one hour.

Some 30-hour clocks were made with false keyholes, for customers who wished that guests to their home would think that the household was able to afford the more expensive eight-day clock.

Some of the smartclocks use front facing cameras to capture employee clock-ins to deter " buddy punching ", a problem usually requiring expensive biometric clocks.

Some of the earliest items sold to China in exchange for tea were British clocks, watches and musical boxes.

Some alarm clocks have radios that can be set to start playing at specified times, and are known as clock radios.

Some alarm clocks also have a " sleep " button, which turns the radio on for a set amount of time ( usually around one hour ).

Some other radio clocks ( not to be confused with clocks with AM / FM radios ) have a feature which sets the time automatically using signals from atomic clock-synced time signal radio stations such as WWV, making the clock ready for use right out of the box.

Some rare clocks use a form of striking known as " Roman Striking " invented by Joseph Knibb, in which a large bell or lower tone is sounded to represent " five ", and a small bell or high tone is sounded to represent " one ".