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Atoms, they contended, could never function as integral parts of cogwheels, gears or motors.
Allen paused, and she might as well have heard the cogwheels turning.
These are not going to be films with a strong social message about our capitalist society, of which the film industry is an important cogwheel, both financially and ideologically.
Positive marital interactions function similar to a gear system in which a cogwheel transmits its movement smoothly to another cogwheel.
Instead of abandoning his bodybuilding dream, he went to a junkyard, got himself some industrial cogwheels and iron bars and somehow tinkered them into a weight set.
This shaft also carries the main cogwheel which engages with a rack between the running rails on the section where the steepness of the gradient calls for its use.
When the car is back together, I'll drive it to Oxford and get him to calibrate it and to provide me with a few extra cogwheels.
Nearby stood the remains of her two-cylinder steam engine and brass condenser - lengths of copper pipe, bronze valves, hollow masts and cogwheels littering the seabed.
This is the film where Chaplin gets sucked into the bowels of a machine, tightening screws as he get squeezed through a series of cogwheels.
The cogwheels in Alexa's mind began to turn faster than usual.
The cogwheels in my brain started churning as I scrubbed my hands under the tap.
Destiny was not to be opposed and the cogwheels that were set in motion could not be stopped, not even by him.
The teeth on the train's cogwheels click and grind as you're pulled around dizzying loops and across viaducts.
I found the first relatively sharp instrument I could lay my hands on - a metal cogwheel from my Meccano set, and got to work.
A few cogwheels in Blaise Pascal's seventeenth century calculator perform the entire procedure of addition better and faster than a human mind.
The machinery in it looked oddly antiquated, as if someone had taken a lot of cogwheels and pistons and piled them together.
It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices.
They drove a jackshaft, which took the power through gearing to the cogwheel, which engaged in the usual way with the rack rail.
Maybe I am partial to this film because of its art design - I am a sucker for big cogwheels and jazz music.
The big cogwheel rotated exactly once every Roman mile, and at this point a small stone - a calculus - dropped into a box.