Inventing

Examples

• It was during this period of inventing a system that so much systematic and continuous work with good results was done by Edison in the design and perfection of dynamos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Though the honor of inventing the art of wireless telegraphy is generally ascribed to Marconi, this is to give him more credit than he deserves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our first engine compelled the inventing and making of a suitable engine indicator to indicate it--the Tabor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has always been one of the characteristic features of Edison's method of inventing that work in several lines has gone forward at the same time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What business had his slave to be marching round the country, inventing machines, and holding up his head among gentlemen? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This came to be known as the Geordie Lamp, to distinguish it from the Davy Lamp that Sir Humphrey Davy was inventing at about the same time. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• More heads are occupied in inventing the most proper machinery for executing the work of each, and it is, therefore, more likely to be invented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even if this country were comfortably well-off, healthy, prosperous, and educated, men would go on inventing and creating opportunities to amplify the possibilities of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Before he began inventing, only two of them were known at all as arts--telegraphy and the manufacture of cement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In ways like these we shall go on inventing methods by which the fictitious party alignments can be dissolved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If he had not been so intent on inventing he would have made more of his great opportunities for getting rich. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Hope not to save thy cowardly carcass by inventing horrid lies to-- But he got no further. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Menlo Park became ultimately the centre of Edison's business life as it was of his inventing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I complain of a new disease, Mr. Franklin, of my own inventing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Incidentally it may be noted that things, not words, are referred to; for Edison, in addition to inventing the apparatus, has often had to coin the word to describe it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1733 he had succeeded in inventing the picker motion, picker peg, or fly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But only think of his inventing this machine, interposed one of the workmen, rather unluckily. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If you have got your hand in for inventing authors and testimony, I have nothing more to say--let them be on the same side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thou art so good at inventing better ways of doing things. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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