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More "High-power" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... optical method of examining threads, but the writer has invariably found a high-power microscope more convenient and capable of giving more exact information as to ...
— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall
... Soissons the road was strewn with high-power automobiles and motor-trucks that the Germans had been forced to destroy. Something had gone wrong, something that at other times could easily have been mended. But with the French in pursuit there was no time to pause, nor could cars of such value be left to the enemy. So ...
— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis
... the other elements of Great Britain's government, has taken on magnified dimensions during the last half century. So long as war-ships used sails as their principal motive power, so long were they forced to employ methods of construction and equipment that forbade the efficient employment of high-power guns, the attainment of great speed, and the use of instruments of precision; so long, in other words, was their military effectiveness prevented from increasing greatly. But when the British navy decided to abandon ...
— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske
... armies marched over the road to Peking in 1900," Frank explained, "and I rather think the inhabitants of strip of country have a wholesome respect for foreigners. With our high-power motorcycles, ought to make Peking before daylight, if we start right ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson
... fulfillment, and the Mexican element actually did revolt. Babes, they were, those two alone there in Sunlight Basin, with a single-shot "twenty-two" for defense, when every American rancher in three States considered high-power rifles and plenty of ammunition as necessary in his ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... fellows scooting down the Thames in a high-power motorboat, sir," was the reply. "They were unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves and one of them took a shot at us. So ...
— The Boy Allies Under the Sea • Robert L. Drake
... wet cloth did not ring the bell, but this is because the pressure or voltage of the electricity in the batteries is not very high. In dealing with high-power wires it is much safer to consider water, or anything wet, as a pretty good conductor of electricity. Absolutely pure, distilled water is an extremely poor conductor; but most water has enough minerals ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
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