Meanings of mechanical powers in English

The Egyptians and Greeks had water-wheels, and in fact understood all the mechanical powers.

What Archimedes said of the mechanical powers, may be applied to Reason and Liberty.

She puts all the mechanical powers at his disposal-buthe must make his lever.

The two great mechanical powers are fire and water.

This proposition was rediscovered by Stevinus, a century later, and applied by him to the explanation of the mechanical powers.

This is a necessary result of increasing mechanical powers and of the economy of big businesses as compared to small ones.

There existed many celebrated tracts on mathematics; and several of the mechanical powers, particularly that of the lever, were cultivated with success.

When he spoke of the mechanical powers, he evidently looked upon them only as new ways of extending trade and making money.

To a certain extent he inherited his mechanical powers from his father, who, besides being an excellent painter, was a thorough mechanic.

For the present we shall confine ourselves to the subjects of the mechanical powers and minerals of Ireland, as treated by Dr. Kane.

They were a sample of that great mass of unskilled cheap labour which the now still cheaper mechanical powers had superseded for evermore.

Talent can understand and admire the mechanical powers; Genius puts them in harness, and makes them traverse land and sea to do his bidding.

Mr. Edison tells us that his son never had any boyhood in the ordinary sense, his early playthings being steam-engines and the mechanical powers.

In this state of intellectual and moral depravity, he found a solace in the renewal of his experiments with the mechanical powers of the kite.

The science of mechanics, a branch of natural philosophy, lays down the laws of motion, and the properties of what are called the mechanical powers.

So, the mechanic should understand the mechanical powers, the laws of motion, and the history and composition of the various substances which he works on.