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.

At once he started to glance toward the instrument panel.

If a tuning other than equal temperament is used, the instrument requires retuning once the keyboard is shifted.

For both, the instrument featured in the earlier period of their careers and was abandoned once they had shifted their efforts to the piano.

Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Togo as non-member states, have been approved for membership, and will each become a Member State once it deposits the necessary legal instrument.

It will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument in a business at which my heart now shudders.

The flute was once made of wood rather than silver or other metal, and could be made as a side-blown or end-blown instrument.

An individual device may be either monophonic or polyphonic, and can be either a monotimbral instrument that can play only one sound at a time, or a polytimbral instrument that can play multiple sounds at once.

Contrary to popular belief, the sousaphone was not initially developed as a marching instrument, as the professional band Sousa started after leaving the Marines ( for which he wanted this new instrument ) marched only once in its existence.

This Greek word was used to describe an instrument mentioned in the Book of Daniel, once believed by scholars to have been a bagpipe — the word was identified, for example, as the root of the name of the Italian zampogna ( Stainer and Galpin 1914, 145 – 46 ).

When music on two staves is joined by a brace, or is intended to be played at once by a single performer ( usually a keyboard instrument or the harp ), a great stave ( BrE ) or grand staff ( AmE ) is created.

The difficulty of producing and controlling the sound of the cornett undoubtedly became more evident once the instrument began to be pushed aside ( in the late 17th century ) in favour of the more fashionable stringed instruments.

His expert understanding of the way the sound of each instrument interacts with each other ( demonstrated in his Treatise on Instrumentation ) was attested to by the critic Louis Engel, who mentions how Berlioz once noticed, amidst an orchestral tutti, a minute pitch difference between two clarinets.

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies ”

Emerson: " I had my faithful roady Rocky tune the instrument to A 440 just prior to the audience coming in, but once the audience came into the auditorium and the temperature rose up then everything went out of tune.

The sampling rate of the instrument was approximately once per minute.

The most unusual musical instrument on display is the giant double bass attributed to Gasparo da Salò and once owned by Domenico Dragonetti.

A fiscal surplus is often saved for future use, and may be invested in either local currency or any financial instrument that may be traded later once resources are needed ; notice, additional debt is not needed.

Suetonius Tranquillus asserts that Sejanus was merely an instrument of Tiberius to hasten the downfall of Germanicus and his family, and that he was quickly disposed of once he ceased to be useful.

The crwth ( or ), also called a crowd, is an archaic stringed musical instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, once widely-played in Europe.

For this reason, it can sound many more notes at once than some other stringed instruments, making it more comparable to a keyboard instrument than to other stringed instruments.

* A weight, usually called the internal mass, that can move relative to the instrument frame, but is attached to it by a system ( such as a spring ) that will hold it fixed relative to the frame if there is no motion, and also damp out any motions once the motion of the frame stops.

Shortly afterwards Acacius drawn up a document, or series of articles, which constituted at once both a creed and an instrument of reunion, as his measure to claim jurisdiction over the entire East.