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He still loved to build gadgets�a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not only will the Neorest 550's self-opening and closing toilet lid have you wondering how you ever managed without it, the heated seat comes with a cheerful built-in night light.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Smoke-ring Apparatus.—Get a large tin of the self-opening kind and cut a hole 2 inches across in the bottom.

From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald

Geometric Self-opening and Adjustable Screw-cutting Die Head A well-known die head of the self-opening type is shown in Fig.

From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Jones, Franklin D.

The doors of the prison self-opening to Peter.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard