mechanical working

However every car needs a regular service by trained personnel who do understand its mechanical workings.

From inside the vast atrium you can view the whole structure as well as the mechanical workings of the building.

It is not strengthened by heat treatment, instead becoming stronger due to strain hardening, or cold mechanical working of the material.

Abel and Christa show a strange affinity for the hospital's mechanical workings.

Both your Jeep and my wristwatch have wheels and mechanical workings.

The young Peet would also sneak onto greeting parties at the train station as a boy just to see the train's mechanical workings.

Nancarrow, a crown prince among American musical eccentrics, found his voice in the mechanical workings of the player piano.

Another dealer disagreed, saying quartz might suit the buyer's life style and still provide its owner with some hand-finished mechanical workings.

But Mr. Baitz gets himself trapped in the mechanical working of an overcomplicated plot (2:00).

Visitors can also view the inside mechanical workings of the mill, which are an example of traditional Dutch 17th Century craftsmanship.

Often would be zapped by lightning, revealing his inner mechanical workings and then remarking "I needed that!!"

For the first time since the introduction of the Hoover vacuum cleaner, the mechanical workings were completely concealed from sight by a Bakelite cover.

Fortunately, this book of Su's that was handed down included 47 different illustrations of great detail of the mechanical workings for his astronomical clocktower.

It had been restocked with food and drink, its furnishings had been renewed or replaced, its mechanical workings rechecked.

But Butor's extremely detailed and careful analysis of the slow, almost mechanical workings of doubt and fear make his eventual change of mind absolutely inevitable.

Count Vincenzo and Domenico Agusta had a passion for mechanical workings and for motorcycle racing.

The film's mechanical workings are still impressive, but between the unsympathetic characters and the coldly precise direction, there is little here for an audience to clutch to its heart.

Two nonexplosive tests were conducted earlier to try the bomb's launching and mechanical workings, the most recent being last Friday, said Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

This set of articles includes explanations of lockpicking and safecracking, as well as the mechanical workings of many of the most common types of locks.

In 1961 the Chorleywood bread process was developed, which used the intense mechanical working of dough to dramatically reduce the fermentation period and the time taken to produce a loaf.

The mechanical workings of the timepiece were manufactured by the Verdin Company, and are set by the National Research Council Time Signal.

Edmund and Norbert Mirassou worked as a team, Norbert overseeing the mechanical workings of the farm, Edmund taking care of administrative duties.

With some companies, the use of paintballs voids the airsoft gun's warranty; paint may get into the mechanical workings of the airsoft gun and damage parts beyond simple maintenance.

The two workers who are, in effect, the final quality control inspectors on the mechanical workings of every piano are the union men: Dominick Iovino, a tuner, is the shop steward.

He claims to have puzzled out the mechanical workings of the planet and used this knowledge to locate a "safe zone" without any of the predators that roam the rest of the world.