6 sentences with 'device'
Example sentences and phrases with the word device and other words derived from it.
• « With the other hand, he takes a special device and imprints a tattoo on the animal's ear so that the investigators can follow the animal's movements. Finally, he weighs the specimen (an impressive 12 kilos) and releases it. »
• « The ultrasound scanner, the diagnostic device so common today, with which obstetricians investigate the morphology of the foetus in the pregnant woman, is exactly that, a sonic eye, although in general the image leaves something to be desired and requires interpretation by a specialist. »
• « Reasonably effective compasses and a device for measuring latitude called an astrolabe came into European hands from the Middle East around 1400 as well. »
• « Morse Code thus enabled the first modern mass communication device. This was the first time a message could travel faster than a messenger on horseback, greatly increasing the speed with which information could be shared and disseminated. »
• « Patented by the American Thomas Alva Edison (inventor of the phonograph), the marvellous device was called a kinetoscope. It had been on sale for several months and cost a whopping 6000 francs (more than 120,000 francs today)! »