This visible device is the switch which throws the mechanism on or off.
Should this enveloping force be interrupted in any direction a delicate instrument immediately apprehends the irregularity, at the same time imparting an impulse to a magnetic device which in turn actuates the steering mechanism, diverting the bow of the flier away from the obstacle until the craft's radio-activity sphere is no longer in contact with the obstruction, then she falls once more into her normal course.
The mechanism it certainly was that held my attention first.
Since they had no extensive muscular mechanism to recuperate, that periodical extinction was unknown to them.
From the time that his little fingers could grasp a penknife, Owen had been remarkable for a delicate ingenuity, which sometimes produced pretty shapes in wood, principally figures of flowers and birds, and sometimes seemed to aim at the hidden mysteries of mechanism. But it was always for purposes of grace, and never with any mockery of the useful.
I shall scarcely be able to work again on this exquisite mechanism to-night.
The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the
mechanism.
If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics." He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their
mechanism. He also gave me the list of books which I had requested, and I took my leave.
It was evident that for countless ages radium torches had been applied to this pinhole, and for what purpose there could be but a single answer--the
mechanism of the lock was actuated by light rays; and I, John Carter, Prince of Helium, held the combination in my hand--scratched by the hand of my enemy upon his own torch case.
We passed through the doors into the outer jacket, secured them, and then passing on into the cabin, which contained the controlling
mechanism within the inner tube, switched on the electric lights.
In one was a
mechanism which resembled the works of a small clock.
It is there that I, intent on my own investigations, have passed and re-passed a hundred times the worn leonine face, white as the snow beneath him, furrowed with wrinkles like the seams and gashes upon the North Cape; the nervous hand, integrally a part of the
mechanism of his flighter; and above all, the wonderful lambent eyes turned to the zenith.