At first the phases were controlled by hand, but within ten years an escapement mechanism had been devised worked by a vertical plug tree suspended from the rocking beam which rendered the engine self-acting.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

* Maxim gun, the first self-acting machine gun

He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs.

At first the phases were controlled by hand, but within ten years an escapement mechanism had been devised worked by of a vertical plug tree suspended from the rocking beam which rendered the engine self-acting.

Persil came in 1907 as the first “ self-acting laundry detergent ”.

" They now inform him that " at a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather's old ram — and the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had heard him get, concerning it.

Witnesses attest that " flame queens ", hustlers, and gay " street kids "— the most outcast people in the gay community — were responsible for the first volley of projectiles, as well as the uprooting of a parking meter used as a battering ram on the doors of the Stonewall Inn.

Vitruvius details in his text < i > On Architecture </ i > that Ceras the Carthaginian was the first to make a ram with a wooden base with wheels and a wooden superstructure.

The dates of his festivals support the same conclusion: they fall on January 1, March 7 and May 21, the first date being the recurrence of the Agonalia ( dedicated to Janus and celebrated by the king with the sacrifice of a ram ).

Here also was the oracle of Trophonius, and those who consulted it first offered a ram to Agamedes and invoked him.

Hex is the UU's first mainframe computer, though instead of RAM, it has ram skulls, and its mouse is an actual mouse.

He " is strong, powerful and appears with three heads ; the first is like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram ; the tail of a serpent, and from his mouth issue flames of fire.

Rome ( TV Series ) character Ciarán Hinds uses the phrase in episode 5 of the first season " The ram has touched the wall " in the scene where he as Caesar refuses a truce with Pompei Magnus.

The first is a ewe for a chatat ( sin offering ), the second is lamb for an olah ( elevation offering ), and finally a ram as a shelamim ( peace offering ) along with a basket of matzah and their grain and drink offerings.

Chia Pets achieved popularity in the 1980s following the 1982 release of a ram, the first widely marketed Chia Pet.

This included tool bits and tool joints critical for oil drilling, some of the first technologies for ram blast bits for drilling in mines, geothermal drilling, and a hydraulic jackhammer known as the Hughes Impactor.

The first Chia Pet was the ram, marketed and distributed in 1977 although the trademark was not applied for until 1998.

The first Rambouillet ram, named " Shorty ," was donated to the college in 1940 by area rancher D. T.

The introduction of Black Faced Highland sheep to America first occurred in June, 1861, Hugh Brodie imported one ram and two ewes for Brodie & Campbell, New York Mills, New York.

If you choose the first two paths, you will proceed to the highway to shoot at terrorist in their vehicles and battle Cobra, who first tries to shoot at you, but after defeating him, tries to ram you with a huge truck.

Experiments showed that the first cross ewe by the Border Leicester ram gave a lambing percentage which was 15-30 % above that of the parent ewe breed.

* Recording of Good Night Irene in. ram ( Real Audio Metadata ) format on LeadBelly. org ( The first verse of Good Night Irene is also played on the Intro page of LeadBelly. org without requiring the Real Audio download.

1960 was the first year a Fury convertible was offered, the first year for unit-body construction, the first year for Chrysler's ram induction system which increased low-RPM torque, and the first year for Chrysler's new Slant-Six engine.

Under Roman law, any defenders who failed to surrender before the first ram touched their wall were denied any rights.

Amphibians breathe by means of a pump action in which air is first drawn into the buccopharyngeal region through the nostrils.

He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.

Eventually they built the first perfusion pump, an invention instrumental to the development of organ transplantation and open heart surgery.

It is first assumed that if a more efficient heat engine than a Carnot engine is possible, then it could be driven in reverse as a heat pump.

To use an insulin pump, the reservoir must first be filled with insulin.

The Medtronic REAL-Time System is the first to link a continuous monitor with an insulin pump system.

These first engines were used to power pumps and produced only reciprocating motion to move the pump rods at the bottom of the shaft.

He avoided a large crash at the first corner and was running third towards the end of the race when the fuel pump mount failed.

The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting ( b. Netherlands 1659-d. Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742 ) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.

The history of thermodynamics as a scientific discipline generally begins with Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, built and designed the world's first vacuum pump and demonstrated a vacuum using his Magdeburg hemispheres.

The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity.

In 1654, Otto von Guericke invented the first vacuum pump and conducted his famous Magdeburg hemispheres experiment, showing that teams of horses could not separate two hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated.

* Although Philo of Byzantium described the saqiya chain pump in the early 2nd century BC, the square-pallet chain pump was innovated in China during this century, mentioned first by the philosopher Wang Chong around 80 AD.

* The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, the first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work.

** Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor ( b. 1602 ), who is noted for the first air pump ( 1650 ) and creation of a vacuum ( 1654 ) using his Magdeburg Hemispheres.

It also describes the double-piston pump flamethrower and a thermoremanence compass, a few decades before Shen Kuo wrote of the first known magnetic mariners compass.

In the middle of the 20th century, the advent of diesel and electric motors led for the first time to systems that could pump groundwater out of major aquifers faster than it was recharged.

The chain pump was first mentioned in China by the philosopher Wang Chong in his 1st-century-CE Balanced Discourse.

Nicknamed the " Puffing Billy ", Booth's first petrol-powered, horse-drawn vacuum cleaner relied upon air drawn by a piston pump through a cloth filter.

The first stage is usually based on a roughing pump, most commonly a standard rotary vane pump.