"Clockwise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the globe L down, the rotation is always clockwise. In the southern hemisphere it would occur in the opposite direction and on the equator the brush should not turn at all. The rotation may be reversed by a magnet kept at some distance. The brush rotates best, seemingly, when it is at right angles to the ...
— Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High - Frequency • Nikola Tesla
... of the planets round the circle counter-clockwise, i.e. the direction of their proper motions, is that quoted ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge
... out—almost. The vastness of all creation seemed still to revolve slowly about him. The monstrous globe which was Earth moved sedately from above his head to under his feet and continued the slow revolution. The Platform rotated in a clockwise direction. He was drifting ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... couple of words in the narrative that deserve a couple of words of explanation: "Widershins" is probably, as Mr. Batten suggests, analogous to the German "wider Schein," against the appearance of the sun, "counter-clockwise" as the mathematicians say— i.e., W., S., E., N., instead of with the sun and the hands of a clock; why it should have an unspelling influence is hard to say. "Bogle" is a provincial word for "spectre," and is analogous to the Welsh bwg, "goblin," and to the English ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)
... in good time for dinner—was mostly Honnell's, but I must admit that Swan could not be got to refute it. As they approached the village—some huts on a white hillside above a frozen lake—a representative of the dog-colony came to meet them, waving his tail with an anti-clockwise circular motion impossible to the dog of temperate zones. Having inspected them he escorted them on their way in a perfectly ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various
... adjusting, provided the directions regarding seaming rolls given below have been observed. To set the rolls proceed as follows: Loosen the nut on the bottom of the seaming-roll pin. With a screw driver turn the seaming-roll pin counter clockwise—that is, from right to left. Turn very slightly and, while holding the seaming-roll pin with the screw driver in the left hand, tighten nut with the right hand, and ...
— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray
... is the same whether the nail be rubbed forward or back. For oblique side pressure from the right (notches assumed upward), the motion of the stick and hence of the revolving piece will be counter-clockwise; if the pressure is from the left, it will ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics |
