Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

A simpler method was to tie a thread tightly around the wart at its base and wear it this way.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Women made needles from the wingbones of seabirds and the thread was made of sinews of different animals and fish guts ( Gross & Khera pg.

A thin strip of seal intestine was also used and was twisted to form a thread.

Bliss stated that his own work was an attempt to take up the thread of Leibniz ’ s project.

One type of MT that was implemented is known as block multithreading, where one thread is executed until it is stalled waiting for data to return from external memory.

CPU designers then borrowed ideas from commercial computing markets such as transaction processing, where the aggregate performance of multiple programs, also known as throughput computing, was more important than the performance of a single thread or program.

For example in the mid 350 ’ s the city of Jerusalem was hit with drastic food shortages at which point church historians Sozomen and Theodoret reported “ Cyril secretly sold sacramental ornaments of the church and a valuable holy robe, fashioned with gold thread that the emperor Constantine had once donated for the bishop to wear when he performed the rite of Baptism ”.

Cyril was caught when a dancer was seen wearing a coat that contained gold thread: a direct gift from the emperor Constantius.

The thread was later deleted by an unknown moderator.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

James Parry ( born July 13, 1967 ), commonly known by his nickname and username Kibo (), is a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long. signature, and a machine-assisted knack for " kibozing ": joining any thread in which " kibo " was mentioned.

Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the " clew ", or " clue ", so he could find his way out again.

" It was utterly inept, simply a scene of this or that, no relation, no thread of story or continuity whatever, and it must have bored the audience to distraction.

It produces a softer, less twisted thread that was favoured for fines and for weft.

: Sewing thread, was made of several threads twisted together, or doubled.

* The screw base size and thread dimensions of electric lamp bulbs was standardized by Thomas Edison.

" The word " sutra " was very likely meant to apply quite literally to these texts, as they were written down in books of palm leaves sewn together with thread.

Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including " cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways ", it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1, 200 hours.

This thread was either made of silk or a silk blend, to allow for improper stitches to be easily removed.

It was already known that hanging an object from a thread could demonstrate the effects of such weak influences.

Tantra, literally meaning " formula ", " method, or " way ", ( parallel to the Chinese Tao, which also means " the way " or " the method "), and also having the secondary meaning of " loom ", " thread " or " warp and woof " is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth century CE, and which came to influence all forms of Asian religious expression to a greater or lesser degree.

Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas .” A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.

Mers Kutt, inventor of Key-Edit and founder of CCL, was the common thread that led to Fujitsu ’ s later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl.

While it is true that Tippett's music is not as obviously ' English ' in style as composers of the so-called ' English pastoral school ' - Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius, and later Howells and Finzi-there is an underlying thread of nature mysticism running through it which is as English as William Blake, Samuel Palmer or John Keats.

Toyota's development of ideas that later became Lean may have started at the turn of the 20th century with Sakichi Toyoda, in a textile factory with looms that stopped themselves when a thread broke, this became the seed of autonomation and Jidoka.

Some years later — according to other sources, this occurred in 1545 under Sultan Suleyman I — Mehmet II had another covered market built, the Sandal Bedesten ( the name comes from a kind of thread woven in Bursa which had the colour of sandalwood ), also named " Küçük " (), " Cedit " or " Yeni " ( both words meaning in ) Bedesten, which lay north of the first.

The tapestries were made with both gold and silver thread ; some were later burnt by soldiers to collect the precious metals.

In the Pilot it was suggested, by an overly-long hug, that his affair was with a young man but this homosexual thread was dropped and the student confirmed to be female in later episodes.

" He later told The Guardian: " If there's a thread running through my career it's World in Action-the phrase as well as the programme.

During an interrupt, the status of the thread currently executing can be preserved ( and later recalled ) by storing the current value of the status register along with the program counter and other active registers into the machine stack or a reserved area of memory.

Projectile and rapier looms eliminated the need to take the bobbin / pirn of thread through the shed ; later, air-and water-jet looms reduced the weight of moving parts further.

It picked up a story thread from the final episode of the series, in which the surviving prisoners of war, on the eve of their repatriation from Singapore, had made a promise to reunite five years later, at Raffles Hotel — a fixture in their pre-war lives, which also served as a repatriation centre during the liberation of Singapore.

As a later manager of the theatre wrote, " In the history of property, there has probably been no parallel instance wherein the legal labyrinth has been so difficult to thread.

She would later comment, " It all got sort of mishmashed in my brain except for one thread: a helluva lot of people over the centuries seemed to want to harm the Jewish people.

However, the GER lines were mostly north to south, centred on London, leaving an opening for the smaller companies that later became the M & GN to thread their way east to west between the GER lines, and in this way connected the major towns of Norfolk ( Great Yarmouth, Norwich, King's Lynn ) and many other smaller centres via the MR and GNR networks to the Midlands and the North.

Kinnunen later told that one spark plug thread in the cylinder head had been stripped.

These interests form a thread through his later novels, travel books and biographies.

The pre-1987 engines had an oil filter adapter with 3 / 4 and 13 / 16 threads ( which used a GM oil filter common to Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Cadillac V8 engines ) while the 1987-06 engines were originally fitted with a 20 mm metric thread filter ( later revised in 1991 for the common 3 / 4 threaded Mopar and Ford V8 oil filter ).

Other firms adopted it, and it soon became a national standard for the U. S., later becoming generally known as the United States Standard thread ( USS thread ).

pthread_key_create creates a key, with an optional destructor, that can later be associated with thread specific data via pthread_setspecific.

The first was a nicely crafted volley after he chested down a Kyle Walker chipped pass, with the second coming a few minutes later after a slip from Arsenal's Thomas Vermaelen allowed Ashley Young the time to thread a pass through the Gunners ' defence and Bent to sidefoot home for 2 – 0.

The store ’ s green delivery wagons ( later its delivery trucks ) were ubiquitous in Portland, with the company willing to deliver purchases of any size — even a spool of thread.