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Updated: May 22, 2025
That's what spring-loaded means in this case." "Couldn't anyone have found the steel bar?" Scotty wanted to know. "Yes, if anyone had looked for it. But once the launching tower was erected, there was no reason for anyone to go to the top for an inspection." Scotty nodded his understanding. "To go on, as soon as we found the bar and the spring mechanism we knew we'd been sabotaged.
It was spring-loaded and triggered to move right across the path of the rocket when we fired." "What does spring-loaded mean?" Mrs. Brant asked. "The bar was activated by a spring. The spring was under tension. The steel bar lay along one of the pieces of the frame, and was held by a latch. When the trigger withdrew the latch, the spring pushed the bar across the path of the rocket.
The colonel tore the wrapper of the latest copy of an automobile journal, posted to him weekly, and devoted himself to an article on spring-loaded starters. I read a type-written document from the staff captain that related to the collection, "as opportunity offers," of two field guns captured from the enemy two days before. But at 3.35 the situation became electric again.
Though he had never seen one of them before, the operation of the firemaker was obvious to him. A spring-loaded arm drove a fragment of stone against a piece of steel, sparks flew out and were caught in a cup of tinder, where Ch'aka blew on them until they burst into flame. Where had the firelighter and the crossbow come from?
As the man laid it on the desk, Morely examined the object closely. It was large enough to go on a man's head, he saw. It had adjustable straps, which could be used to hold it in place, and there were a few spring-loaded contacts, which apparently were meant to rest against a wearer's forehead and temples.
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