Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

The instrument used for this work was a slight modification of that previously described.

-- An extensive series of measurements was made on a high-density polyethylene in a torsion pendulum instrument using forced sinusoidal oscillation, free vibration, and creep measurements over the temperature range of Af to 80-degrees-C.

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

However, wall depictions of this instrument have not been discovered, casting some doubt over the extent to which this instrument was used.

The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.

In his instrument, temperatures were indicated by the height at which a column of mercury was sustained by a certain mass of air, the volume, or " spring ", of which varied with the heat to which it was exposed.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

His capacity for dealing with men was considerable, and he never allowed himself to become the instrument of any particular party.

The early a cappella polyphonies may have had an accompanying instrument, although this instrument would merely double the singers ' parts and was not independent.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

Kern & Co., founded in 1819, was an internationally known geodetic instrument manufacturer based in Aarau.

The instrument was set up in November 1725, and observations on γ Draconis were made on the 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 12 December.

This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

Sensitivity of the instrument was increased by using additional turns of wire to multiply the effect – the instruments were called " multipliers ".

The modern form of this instrument was developed by Edward Weston, and uses two spiral springs to provide the restoring force.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

The " Fender Bass " was a revolutionary new instrument, one that could easily be played by an electric guitarist, could be easily transported to a gig, and could be amplified to just about any volume without feeding back ".

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

In the nineteenth century, the balalaika evolved into a triangular instrument with a neck that was substantially shorter than that of its Asian counterparts.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

This unique pointing instrument was designed with an accuracy of one arcsecond.

Electric guitars were originally designed by guitar makers and instrument manufacturers.

Critical variables affecting this acoustic impedance include: chimney length ( hole between lip-plate and head tube ), chimney diameter, and radii or curvature of the ends of the chimney and any designed restriction in the " throat " of the instrument, such as that in the Japanese Nohkan Flute.

The gravikord is a light ergonomically designed instrument made of modern materials mostly stainless steel tubing.

The earliest known tablatures are designed for a six-stringed instrument, although evidence of earlier four-and five-stringed lutes exists.

Some editors are designed for a specific instrument or effects device, while other, " universal " editors support a variety of equipment, and ideally can control the parameters of every device in a setup through the use of System Exclusive commands.

PC-I was the first instrument using this concept and was designed in 1968, completed in 1969 and reported in 1972.

If the instrument is designed to measure the spectrum in absolute units rather than relative units, then it is typically called a spectrophotometer.

Michelson designed an instrument called the Michelson interferometer to accomplish this.

To prevent the complete loss of instrumentation in the event of an electrical failure, the instrument panel is deliberately designed with certain instruments powered by electricity and other instruments powered by the vacuum source.

Equipment designed to be placed in a rack is typically described as rack-mount, rack-mount instrument, a rack mounted system, a rack mount chassis, subrack, rack mountable, or occasionally simply shelf.

Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens, built by instrument maker Salomon Coster ( 1657 ), and manuscript Horologium Oscillatorium, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden

They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome, and called the operation a leucotomy ( cutting of the white matter ).

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments.

A balloon designed for planetary exploration will carry a small gondola containing an instrument payload.

Bass-register string instruments such as the double bass and the electric bass are amplified with bass instrument amplifiers that are designed to reproduce low-frequency sounds.

* Patent No. 3, 091, 149 ( May 25, 1963 ): The pin-block is specially designed to keep the instrument in tune longer.

This instrument was designed to drop a bronze ball from the mouth of a dragon into the mouth of a toad.

Reeds designed for the same instrument may look identical to each other, but may vary in thickness (" hardness " or " strength ").

A properly designed and built Newtonian is a high performance instrument, fully capable of matching the performance of other designs, a case where inexpensive does not mean inferior.

As the next verse shows, this spiritual call does not arise from any supposed " need " on the part of the Creator, who is self-sufficient and infinite in His power, but is designed as an instrument for the inner development of the worshiper, who, by the act of his conscious self-surrender to the all-pervading Creative Will, may hope to come closer to an understanding of that Will and, thus closer to Allah Himself.

The intended mission of the probe is not known, it was speculated the probe was designed to land on the Moon with an instrument package based on the trajectory and on the later attempted landings of the Luna 5 and Luna 6 spacecraft and successful landing of Luna 9.

This is done by having a gyroscope move part of the instrument, or by powered mechanisms driven by gyroscopic or inertial detectors, or via a mount designed to oppose and damp the effect of shaking movements.

These spacecraft boasted a television instrument designed to observe the lunar surface during the approach ; as the spacecraft neared the Moon, they would reveal detail smaller than the best Earth telescopes could show, and finally details down to dishpan size.