Escapade!
An interactive fiction by Juhana Leinonen (2008) - the Inform 7 source text
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A dial is a kind of thing. Understand "dial" and "display" and "info/information" as a dial.
A dial is always scenery.
Instead of turning or pushing a dial:
say "It's the kind of dial that displays information, not the kind that you operate."