Movement of the controlling lever operates an electrical circuit controller.
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Alister eventually manages to reach the chamber and pulls the time-controlling lever backwards despite the efforts of Sigmund to stop him.
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For lower quadrant semaphores this requires the spectacle case to be sufficiently heavy to ensure the arm rises rather than falls; this is one of the reasons for the widespread switch to upper quadrant signals . ( The purpose of the balance weight often found on a lever lower down the post of a semaphore signal is actually to ensure the signal " wire " returns to its normal position when the controlling lever is put back.