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 Ancient Greek those last three words would be rendered tōi podi ( τῷ ποδί ), with the noun pous ( πούς, foot ) changing to podi to reflect the fact that John is using his foot as an instrument ( any adjective modifying " foot " would also change case to match ).

After having appeared as an instrument and place for isolating counterrevolutionary and criminal elements, the Gulag, because of its principle of “ correction by forced labor ”, quickly became, in fact, an independent branch of the national economy secured on the cheap labor force presented by prisoners.

He understood the fact that every instrument sounds the way it does because of its many harmonic overtones and their varied intensities.

* The second is the agentic state theory, wherein, per Milgram, " the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view themselves as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and they therefore no longer see themselves as responsible for their actions.

This gave the Star Chamber great flexibility as it could punish offenders for any action which the court felt should be illegal even when in fact it was technically legal ; however, it also meant that the justice imposed by the Star Chamber could be very arbitrary and subjective, and allowed the court to be used later on in its history as an instrument of oppression rather than for the purpose of justice for which it was intended.

In fact, the flared end of a brass instrument is not to make the instrument sound louder, but to correct for tube length “ end effects ” that would otherwise make the overtones significantly different from integer harmonics.

Armstrong was a virtuoso on his instrument, and his solos often took advantage of that fact.

Military officials recognized the fact that Pax Americana had been reliant on the effective United States air power, just as the instrument of Pax Britannica a century earlier was its sea power.

As a British newspaper put it, " the committee, in recommending this new sword bayonet, appear to have had in view the fact that bayonets will henceforth be less frequently used than in former times as a weapon of offence and defence ; they desired, therefore, to substitute an instrument of more general utility.

Drachkovitch believed that the difficulty arose from the fact that the general strike was " one instrument ", but was frequently considered " without distinction of underlying motives.

Despite the fact that the sympathetic strings are now thought of as the most characteristic element of the instrument, early forms of the instrument almost uniformly lacked them.

" Here, Sharon began to play the bass guitar, while Neil sat behind the drum set, despite the fact that neither had played either instrument before.

However, despite their notoriety and frequent citing in books on musical instruments and in on-line discussion forums, these instruments were never placed in production and were, perhaps, more along the lines of engineering achievements and curiosities ( despite the fact that the EEE ♭ model could be a viable instrument, it is said that only three were made ).

Of the unusual moniker attached to the instrument, Richards said, " There's no reason for my guitar being called Micawber, apart from the fact that it's such an unlikely name.

He is unusual as a calypsonian in the fact that his instrument was the piano, ( not exactly the best instrument for the calypso tent.

" In Unnatural Death, she had invented a murder method that is appropriately dramatic and cunningly ingenious, the injection of an air-bubble with a hypodermic, but not only, in fact, would it require the use of an instrument so large as to be farcical, but Miss Sayers has her bubble put into an artery not a vein.

For an instrument whose payment stream is described by f ( t ), the value V ( t ) satisfies the inhomogeneous first-order ODE (" inhomogeneous " is because one has f rather than 0, and " first-order " is because one has first derivatives but no higher derivatives ) – this encodes the fact that when any cash flow occurs, the value of the instrument changes by the value of the cash flow ( if you receive a $ 10 coupon, the remaining value decreases by exactly $ 10 ).

It was quite hard work for us to adjust to the fact that some of us might not necessarily be playing our usual instrument on a track, or even playing any instrument at all.

Part of the appeal of this instrument over the early modular Moogs was the fact that the Minimoog required no patch cables ; its signal and control voltage path is hard-wired, or " normalled ".

In fact, it is with him the function of philosophy to classify and explain universal convictions and beliefs ; but common-sense is not with him philosophy, nor is it the instrument of philosophy ; it is simply the material on which the philosophical method works, and in harmony with which its results must ultimately be found.

Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.

Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

When compressed, the crystal produces a small electrical current, so when placed under the bridge saddle, the vibrations of the strings through the saddle, and of the body of the instrument, are converted to a weak electrical signal.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Early clavichords frequently had many notes played on each string, even going so far as the keyed monochord — an instrument with only one string — though most clavichords were triple-or double-fretted.

Stories have been told about the very young Chet who, when a friend or relative would come to visit, and if that person played a guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so very close to the instrument that it became difficult for that person to play.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

Sometimes, for the sake of appearance or of the desired " feel " of the instrument, a drum with a trigger will be used as a trigger pad by muffling it so heavily that no significant sound at all is produced, see Electronic drum # Acoustic triggered drum kit.

However, because the SEM image relies on surface processes rather than transmission, it is able to image bulk samples up to many centimetres in size and ( depending on instrument design and settings ) has a great depth of field, and so can produce images that are good representations of the three-dimensional shape of the sample.

The presence of the measuring instrument inevitably acts to divert flow and create turbulence, so its shape is critical to accuracy and the calibration curves are often non-linear.

MIDI was invented so that musical instruments could communicate with each other, and that one instrument can control another.

A third type of port, the " MIDI THRU " port, exists so that data can be forwarded to another instrument in a " daisy chain " arrangement.

These efforts produced an instrument which so pleased Beauchamp that he told Dopyera that they should go into business to manufacture them.

The player's breath is compressed into a linear airstream by a channel cut into the wooden " block " or fipple ( A ), in the mouthpiece of the instrument, so as to travel along this channeled duct ( B ) called the " windway ".

One of the design objectives of the instrument is to disturb the circuit as little as possible and so the instrument should draw a minimum of current to operate.

A once-popular form of this instrument used a vacuum tube in the amplifier circuit and so was called the vacuum tube voltmeter, or VTVM.

He did so, it seems, with a clear conscience ; he regarded himself as God's instrument to uphold the Papacy and punish the Hohenstaufen.

He developed a method of stabilizing the magnetic field of the permanent magnet, so that the instrument would have consistent accuracy over time.

A Ballistic galvanometer is an instrument with a high inertia, arranged so that its deflection is proportional to the total charge sent through the meter's coil.

Macadie invented an instrument which could measure amperes ( amps ), volts and ohms, so the multifunctional meter was then named Avometer.

The theremin, an electronic musical instrument, uses the heterodyne principle to produce a variable audio frequency in response to the movement of the musician's hands in the vicinity of some so called antennas, which act as capacitor plates.

In the late 1950s, mbaqanga music largely superseded kwela in South Africa, and so it followed that the saxophone surpassed the tin whistle as the township people's wind instrument of choice.

If the micrometer is in good condition, then they are all so near to zero that the instrument seems to read essentially " dead-on " all along its range ; no noticeable error is seen at any locale.