9 sentences with 'machines'
Example sentences and phrases with the word machines and other words derived from it.
• « "I had seen many such horse-driven machines," Henry later wrote, "but that one had a chain that established a connection between the engine and the rear wheels of the frame on which the boiler was mounted." »
• « All of them: Bell, Edison and the Wright brothers, personally designed the machines that made them famous; but Ford's achievement was based on the work of others. »
• « When it became known that Winton would take one of his machines to Detroit to contend with anyone who wanted to compete, the challenge was unavoidable. »
• « Da Vinci also created speculative diagrams of various machines, from practical designs such as hydraulic motors and weapons to fantastic ones such as flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. »
• « Da Vinci is remembered today as much for his diagrams of things like flying machines as for his art. »
• « British cloth processed by the new machines was of very high quality and, because of the large quantity that British mills could produce, was much cheaper than hand-produced textiles. »
• « World War I was the world's first mechanised and "impersonal" war in which machines proved far stronger than human beings. »
• « Despite the mechanisation of the Wehrmacht, German forces still relied heavily on horses to transport supplies, and many of the horses died of cold. Even the machines could not withstand the conditions on USSR soil; it was so cold that engines broke down and tanks and armoured cars were immobile. Thus, the German army, though still huge and powerful, froze to a large extent in the winter of 1941-42. »
• « At the opposite end of the building, the crushed ore is mixed with ferrosilicon and poured into 18 machines that look like giant ice cream cones, where the ore components are separated by centrifugation. »