"Front end" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... omit reference to the reflecting telescope, so largely used by astronomers. The front end of the telescope is open, there being no object-glass. Rays from the object fall on a parabolic mirror situated in the rear end of the tube. This reflects them forwards to a focus. In the Newtonian reflector a plane mirror or prism is situated in the axis of the tube, at the focus, to reflect ...
— How it Works • Archibald Williams
... we built in the rear and put in two cylinders of the Chris Abele type, having stationary fronts and filling and emptying from the front end. We still used soft coal, with the fire sixteen to eighteen inches ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... a wooden tower at the starting end of the launching ways—a wooden rail about 60 or 70 feet in length. To the top of the tower a weight of about 1/2 ton was suspended. The suspension rope was led downwards over pulleys, thence horizontally to the front end and back to the inner end of the railway, where it was attached to the aeroplane. A small trolley was fitted to the chassis of the machine and this ran ...
— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton
... hero ran to the front end of the newly-arrived train and got aboard. As he walked through he gave every grown passenger a ...
— Joe The Hotel Boy • Horatio Alger Jr. |
