Additions

Examples

• The first machine to perform multiplication by means of successive additions was invented by Leibnitz in the year 1671 and completed in 1694. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Each of the workers at the Zum Jungen suggested valuable changes and additions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The following figures are based upon the Special Reports of the Census Bureau, 1902 and 1907, with additions computed upon the increase that has subsequently taken place. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Furthermore, large lists of names were subject to many changes and additions--and in this connection, setting up the address plates in rubber type proved quite slow and expensive. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Since this time handsome additions in the shape of marble terraces on the west front have added greatly to the beauty and apparent size of the building. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For a number of years, however, the only additions that were made to the original model were seats for the driver and raker. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Tom's cabin was shut up for the present; but George expatiated brilliantly on ornaments and additions to be made to it when Tom came back. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In spite of miraculous and incredible additions, one is obliged to say, Here was a man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Soon he had evolved a number of important additions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With these and such additions as I can give you from elsewhere, lose no time in making a demonstration, to be followed by an attack upon Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As the use of the addressograph increased, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Hall realized the need of a more efficient way of making changes and additions to the list of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With the graphotype, address plates for changes and additions could be made at almost typewriter speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Newcomen, in making his steam-engine, had simply made additions to Papin’s model. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The mint was employed, not so much in making daily additions to the coin, as in replacing the very best part of it, which was daily melted down. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This I ventured to tell the author, and offered, if he pleased, to supply him with some additions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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