"Make and break" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the young inventor he used practically the same methods that he employs to-day. The transmitting apparatus consisted of electric batteries, an induction coil by which the force of the current is increased, a telegrapher's key to make and break the circuit. Batteries were connected with the induction coil and the telegrapher's key was placed between the ...
— Radio Boys Loyalty - Bill Brown Listens In • Wayne Whipple
... shore, his spade struck gold. If he had been a wise man he would have enriched himself quickly, and returned to Athens to live in comfort. But the sight of the gold vein gave no joy but only scorn to Timon. "This yellow slave," he said, "will make and break religions. It will make black white and foul fair. It will buy murder ...
— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit
... conditions of atmosphere, owing probably to each plate being influenced by and influencing in turn its neighbor, hence there is the minimum surface for leakage. When excited, the direction of the current never changes; this circumstance is due, probably, to the circuit of the metallic sectors and the make and break contacts always being closed, while the combs and the external circuit are supplemental, and for external use only. The quantity of electricity is very large and the potential high. When suitably arranged, the length of spark produced is equal ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
... some fresh repentance brings, you say? Yes—but where leaves the vows of Yesterday? For I shall make and break them all, again, When Time hath ...
— The Rubaiyat of a Bachelor • Helen Rowland |
