mechanical+contrivances
61electromagnet — /i lek troh mag nit/, n. a device consisting of an iron or steel core that is magnetized by electric current in a coil that surrounds it. [1815 25; ELECTRO + MAGNET] * * * Device consisting of a core of magnetic material such as iron, surrounded… …
62evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …
63Organ — • A musical instrument which consists of one or several sets of pipes, each pipe giving only one tone, and which is blown and played by mechanical means. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Organ Organ …
64Toyman — Superherobox| caption=The Toyman. Art by Jesus Merino. comic color=background:#8080ff character name=Toyman real name=Winslow Percival Schott publisher=DC Comics debut= Action Comics #64, September 1943 creators=Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster alliance… …
65folk art — folk art, adj. folk artist. artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as …
66trap — trap1 traplike, adj. /trap/, n., v., trapped, trapping. n. 1. a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly. 2. any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares. 3 …
67Johann Gutenberg — Johann Gutenberg † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Johann Gutenberg (Henne Gänsfleisch zur Laden, commonly called Gutenberg). Inventor of printing; born about 1400; died 1467 or 1468 at Mainz. Gutenberg was the son of Friele (Friedrich)… …
68Ecology — For other uses, see Ecology (disambiguation). Ecology …
69Reductionism — Descartes held that non human animals could be reductively explained as automata De homine, 1662. Reductionism can mean either (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or… …
70History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …
