In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
EVECTIONS
Noun
evections
plural of evection
Source: Wiktionary
EVECTION
E*vec"tion. Etym: [L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F évection.]
1. The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
2. (Astron.) (a) An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'. (b) The libration of the moon. Whewell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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