Rough estimates suggest it was about 1, 500 times faster than the best mechanical hand-cranked calculator of that era, he added.
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Think of a mechanical hand where the knuckle joints and the actuators for those joints are integrated right in the joints themselves.
In reality, however, the mechanical second hand only appears to run smoothly.
Well, if you have ever observed how the second hand of a mechanical watch moves, you know that it appears to run smoothly (in stark contrast to the second hand of a quartz watch, which makes a little jump once a second).
Spinning the pot forces the product to the sides and it freezes, The frozen parts are scraped off the walls of the French pot with a mechanical corkscrew blade and by hand, with a paddle until it all comes together into a frozen mass.
With a mechanical keyboard, on the other hand, each key press triggers an actual on-off switch a feeling as solid as flicking on the lights.
When the rudimentary bicycle was introduced in this country in the late 1860s, it sparked a great deal of popular interest and hopes that a practical mechanical horse was at last at hand.
No voting machine in the world, being mechanical that is operated by the human hand, can achieve the accuracy we are demanding of it in this election.
When mechanical engineer James Parks joined Nektar in 1994, employees at the company were hand-filling blister packs with an early version of insulin powder at a rate of 100 per person per day, too slow for mass production.
The hand, which is said to be a "feat of microscale mechanical systems (MEMS), " measures just one millimeter across when closed into a fist, features four "fingers" made of six silicon wafers each, and touts four gas-powered balloons acting as the muscles at the wafers' joints.
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But this seemingly mechanical exercise of comparing prices and calculating margins is rife with subjective interference and methodological sleights of hand.
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The technology feels like a step backward, from big mechanical machines using nineteenth-century technology to a new system that involves people copying information by hand from one piece of paper to another.
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