You've set in motion a course which cannot be altered.
This law applies to every body that is set in motion upon the surface of the rotating earth, but usually the duration of the motion of any body due to a single impulse is so brief, and there are so many frictional disturbances, that it is not easy to observe the results of this deflecting force.
Such a press, if driven by electric power, is set in motion by merely pushing a button or small switch, a bell first giving warning of the press being about to move.
Speeds can be regulated to a nicety for each separate machine, and any machine can be set in motion by pressing a button.
Darkyn glanced at the sand in the hourglass. He had one more chain of events to set in motion.
