Contributed

Examples

• The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The feature of importance in the cannon which contributed most to its efficiency was the rifling of the bore with spiral grooves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Have those public endowments contributed in general, to promote the end of their institution? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That of England contributed as little towards effectuating the establishment of some of its most important colonies in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Br ashear, who contributed valuable information in reference to the activities of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Many different causes contributed to relax the discipline of the Roman armies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Have they contributed to encourage the diligence, and to improve the abilities, of the teachers? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a divine spring; and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There is no telling how much this result was contributed to by General Lew Wallace's leading what might well be considered almost a forlorn hope. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nearly every nation contributed, the reader will note, for science knows no nationality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Doubtless fugitives from the Tartars to the east also contributed to the Cossack mixture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Prominent among those who have contributed to this art are the names of Turpin, Abel and Dewar, Nobel, Maxim, Munroe, Du Pont, Bernadou and others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In one way, and in one way only, it has contributed a good deal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Foreign countries have contributed little or nothing to the development of the motorcycle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This contributed much towards spreading a knowledge of Franklin's principles in France. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• One day, however, he got into a dialogue with Hiram Ford, a wagoner, in which he himself contributed information. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Several extraneous sums, altogether independent of that ordinary revenue, have contributed towards it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• EIGHTH NARRATIVE Contributed by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE I am the person (as you remember no doubt) who led the way in these pages, and opened the story. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There are numerous modern refinements which have contributed materially to the present-day popularity of the motorcycle that are worthy of special note. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The movements of the 2d corps and General Ord's command contributed greatly to the day's success. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hardly a substance exists to the knowledge of which he has not in some way contributed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He would be a dreadful, but wonderful lover to a woman, so marvellously contributed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At one time the Astronomer Royal had felt very skeptical about the possibility of the discovery which his own labors had contributed to advance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To the sum total of human knowledge no department of science has contributed more than that of optics. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This, and its arrangement as a relay in a local circuit, was a most important invention, and contributed quite as much to the success of the telegraph as did the inventions of Prof. Morse. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Douglas Kinnaird kept up his character the whole of the evening, and contributed much to our amusement during supper. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am afraid, returned Emma, sighing, that I must often have contributed to make her unhappy. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He had the wisdom to see that the existence and stimulus of Carthage contributed to the general prosperity of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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