Contributions
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Examples
- Tesla in the United States, Branly and Ducretet in France, Righi in Italy, the Russian savant, Popoff, and Professor Lodge, of England, have all made contributions to this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Unwilling to make myself disagreeable to my fellow-citizens by too frequently soliciting their contributions, I absolutely refused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He likes to write, and he'll give a tone to our contributions and keep us from being sentimental, don't you see? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The revolution called Marat to politics, and his earliest contributions to the great discussion were fine and sane. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The contributions to the art and the improvements in the manufacture of talking machines and talking-machine records from sources outside of the United States have been very unimportant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The self acting mortising machine was among the numerous early contributions of Gen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The only person who may be certainly counted on as willing to increase her contributions is Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When subscriptions were opened for the erection and endowment of the Pasteur Institute, a sum of 2,586,680 francs was received in contributions from many different parts of the world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Becquerel and Poitevin, in Paris, in 1855, were the first to experiment in this direction, and Fargier, Swan, and Johnson were successors who made valuable contributions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In his contributions to biological science is manifeste d his characteristic inclination to be at once abstract and concrete. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One of his chief contributions to anatomy is the descri ption of the heart and of the arrangement of the blood-vessels. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- America has furnished some eminent chemists in the Nineteenth Century, who have made valuable contributions to the science, notably in the field of metallurgy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It has been a part of the attempt to justify those subjects by pointing out the significant contributions to life accruing from their study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Gr eat, indeed, as we shall see in the next chapter, are the contributions to the growth of science of this highly rational and speculative people. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A further large part is based upon the personal contributions of many loyal associates; and it is desired here to make grateful acknowledgment to such collaborators as Messrs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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