| 单词 | metabolical machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMetabolical Machine ΚΠ 1864 A. Long Brit. Patent 1944 4 I propose to employ mechanical arrangements or apparatus which I call metabolical apparatus, so constructed as to present to the eye a series of interchangeable surfaces marked with or carrying words, notes, or signs. 1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 17 Mr. Alfred Long has brought under public notice an educational apparatus called the ‘Metabolical Machine’... It is like a box in which a number of dice are shaken, to see which side of each comes uppermost. 1865 A. Long Metabolical Machine & its Uses 19 Long's Patent Metabolical Machine..is constructed so as to present..an endless succession of musical combinations, or of sentences in grammatical and idiomatic form. 1868 Sci. Amer. 2 Sept. 145/2 The metabolical machine is a contrivance for enabling children and others to acquire a knowledge of languages, music, etc., in a much shorter time than they could do so, we are told, without its use. < as lemmas |
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