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electrically-driven

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  • Naturally, this condition has forced me to hang numerous electrically-driven phantasms on the eaves and porch railings surrounding my home.

    Merry Christmas from My Deer Camp to Yours 2008

  • We are moving from a company that for the last 100 years has been based on mechanically-driven products towards one that will eventually be based on electrically-driven products.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: The Electric Revolution 2008

  • The electrically-driven Gatling guns can fire up to 3,000 bullets a minute and the purchase includes the equipment to mount the weapons on to helicopters such as the Griffon...

    Griffons for Afstan? 2008

  • That is to say, their basic components were small, electrically-driven, mechanical switches called ˜relays™.

    The Modern History of Computing Copeland, B. Jack 2006

  • Nowadays the preliminary work is done by an electrically-driven coal-cutter, which in principle is an immensely tough and powerful band-saw, running horizontally instead of vertically, with teeth a couple of inches long and half an inch or an inch thick.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • In addition to working on in vitro smooth muscle preparations at Washington University, I also began what became many years of research on the pharmacology of an in vitro cardiac muscle preparation - namely the isolated electrically-driven right atrium of the guinea pig.

    Robert F. Furchgott - Autobiography 1999

  • In one paper, with the running page heading of "the cocaine paradox," we presented evidence that in aortic strips of rabbit and isolated electrically-driven atria from guinea pig and cat, cocaine potentiated responses to norepinephrine and inhibited those to tyramine by blocking one and the same site on adrenergic nerve terminals.

    Robert F. Furchgott - Autobiography 1999

  • It took the better part of half an hour to trundle the few kilometers in one of the electrically-driven tractors.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • There are obviously limits to the extent of power supply deficiencies beyond which it would be impractical to pursue further installation of electrically-driven public tubewells.

    Chapter 17 1995

  • However, more frequent inspection during the course of the day is required than in the case of electrically-driven units.

    Chapter 17 1995

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