Mechanical in sentence

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It's unclear whether using mechanical restraints is actually saving lives or costing lives.

While I was preparing to write my student note for the Yale Law Journal on mechanical restraints, I consulted an eminent law professor who was also a psychiatrist, and said surely he would agree that restraints must be degrading, painful and frightening.

He was a very wealthy man, and a sort of, part of the aristocracy of Britain, and on a Saturday night in Marylebone, were you part of the intelligentsia of that period, you would have been invited round to his house for a soiree — and he invited everybody: kings, the Duke of Wellington, many, many famous people — and he would have shown you one of his mechanical machines.

I really miss that era, you know, where you could go around for a soiree and see a mechanical computer get demonstrated to you.

He's less well known than either of them because he got this idea to make mechanical computing devices and never made any of them.

Completely mechanical.

This whole machine is mechanical.

Now, the reason they used punch cards was that Jacquard, in France, had created the Jacquard loom, which was weaving these incredible patterns controlled by punch cards, so he was just repurposing the technology of the day, and like everything else he did, he's using the technology of his era, so 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, cogs, steam, mechanical devices.

It's completely mechanical, again, a printer.

Now, of course, Babbage's machine was entirely mechanical.

It doesn't matter if your computer's mechanical, like Babbage's was, or electronic, like computers are today, or perhaps in the future, cells, or, again, mechanical again, once we get into nanotechnology.

Human time, industrial time, tested against the time of the tides, in which these memories of a particular body, that could be any body, multiplied as in the time of mechanical reproduction, many times, placed over three square miles, a mile out to sea, disappearing, in different conditions of day and night.

Then in about the 1930s, with the advent of plate glass, rolled steel and mass production, we were able to make floor-to-ceiling windows and unobstructed views, and with that came the irreversible reliance on mechanical air conditioning to cool our solar-heated spaces.

Over time, the buildings got taller and bigger, our engineering even better, so that the mechanical systems were massive.

Even worse, with our intention of trying to make buildings move towards a net-zero energy state, we can't do it just by making mechanical systems more and more efficient.

So being a mechanical engineer, being at MIT and having lots of resources available to me, I thought I'd try to do something about it.

So the real crux of the problem here is, how do you make a system that's a simple device but gives you a large mechanical advantage?

So I'm an academic at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have available and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.

It's also about 40 percent more efficient than a regular wheelchair, and because of the mechanical advantage you get from the levers, you can produce 50 percent higher torque and really muscle your way through the really, really rough terrain.

Narrator: The mechanical beasts will not get their energy from food, but from the wind.

You might find a mind that's very dull and boring, and it's just, almost mechanical, it just seems it's as if you're getting up, going to work, eat, sleep, get up, work.

And if we can actually provide feedback, sensory signals that go back from this robotic, mechanical, computational actuator that is now under the control of the brain, back to the brain, how the brain deals with that, of receiving messages from an artificial piece of machinery.

(Mechanical noises) (Music) (Applause) What is going to be the future of learning?

Mechanical engineers design air handling units to make sure that people are comfortable, that the air flow and temperature is just right.

The rooms in this building are like islands in an archipelago, and what that means is that mechanical engineers are like eco-engineers, and they have the ability to structure biomes in this building the way that they want to.

I'm a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and my favorite hobby is photography.

Charles Babbage, I think known to most TEDsters, invented the first mechanical calculator and the first prototype of a modern computer.

Babbage's difference engine was the first mechanical calculator devised to accurately compute any of these tables.

Later, Babbage's analytical engine was the first mechanical computer in the modern sense.

The problem was just that in the material, mechanical sense, that was harder back in the day for the simple reason that materials don't lend themselves to it.

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