Usage of "mechanical powers"

русский

простые механизмы

португальский

máquinas simples

испанский

máquina simple

каталонский

màquina simple

Mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.

простые механизмы

Использование термина mechanical powers на английском

The Egyptians and Greeks had water-wheels, and in fact understood all the mechanical powers. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ... 

What Archimedes said of the mechanical powers, may be applied to Reason and Liberty. 
 The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights ... 

She puts all the mechanical powers at his disposal-buthe must make his lever. 
 Natural Law in the Spiritual World 

The two great mechanical powers are fire and water. 
 Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry 

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

This is a necessary result of increasing mechanical powers and of the economy of big businesses as compared to small ones. 
 The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel 

There existed many celebrated tracts on mathematics; and several of the mechanical powers, particularly that of the lever, were cultivated with success. 
 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus 

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

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

For the present we shall confine ourselves to the subjects of the mechanical powers and minerals of Ireland, as treated by Dr. Kane. 
 Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry 

They were a sample of that great mass of unskilled cheap labour which the now still cheaper mechanical powers had superseded for evermore.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

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

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. 
 Heroes of the Telegraph 

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 Lair of the White Worm 

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. 
 Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy 

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. 
 Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American 