"Doorlock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or steel or tinned iron, by the earth's induction, becomes magnetic. Thus, if we examine our stoves, or a doorlock, or long vertical hinge, or even a high tin cup, by holding a delicate magnetic needle in the hand near those objects, we find the earth has, by induction, attracted to the lower end of the stove utensils, etc., the opposite magnetism ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various
... in a round hole. He loved locksmithy, hunting, and home; would have been a successful inventor, pioneer, or bourgeois parent. In the chair of State, on this day of petitions, his head and hand busied themselves with a wonderful new doorlock he had devised. ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon
... the meantime." He was still watching her with that new look in his eyes. Then, briskly, he returned to his interest in the doorlock. ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... iron or steel or tinned iron, by the earth's induction, becomes magnetic. Thus, if we examine our stoves, or a doorlock, or long vertical hinge, or even a high tin cup, by holding a delicate magnetic needle in the hand near those objects, we find the earth has, by induction, attracted to the lower end of the stove utensils, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various |
