self-acting

How To Use self-acting In A Sentence

• The range consists of three different types of regulation systems: a wireless system based on radio communication( RF) technology, a hard-wired system, and a self-acting system.
• After 1825, when the self-acting mule spinner automated the process, spinning 100 pounds of cotton took 135 hours.
• My dear Darwin, – I have been so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly, or at all, the self-acting and necessary effects of Natural Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself, and your mode of illustrating it, however clear and beautiful to many of us, are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist public. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• By comparison, the two automatic ( "self-acting") whipping machines patented in 1886 and 1895 for use in sweep powers appear ludricrous and harmless. 5. Draft Animals: All Work and No Play?
• Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth? daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their organisation, daily giving them greater skill and supplying more and more of that self-regulating self-acting power which will be better than any intellect? Erewhon
• Additionally, the historical development of the site appeared to reflect the progression of spinning technology through the water and throstle frames, and the self-acting mule.
• A self-acting knocker gives a treble knock -- door is opened by a A Dialogue for the Year 2130
• Revolution began in the wake of the introduction of the self-acting mule (spinning machine) and of widespread unrest because of economic hardship culminating in a general strike (1854) among textile workers. E. The Iberian Peninsula
• Precision manufacture of interchangeable parts led to greater and greater division of labor and the invention of self-acting machines that could be operated by workers with less training and experience than traditional craftsmen.
• For, he wrote, "I am repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly, or at all, the self-acting and necessary effects of Natural Selection. The Debate Over Intelligent Design