Data

Examples

• I got some data and made up my mind that what was needed was a very powerful engine for its weight, in small compass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Even if the same data were present, they would be evaluated differently. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These data revealed the fact that the quantity of copper required for the main conductors would be exceedingly large and costly; and, if ever, Edison was somewhat dismayed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As stated at the outset the psychology of scientific discovery must be the subject of prolonged investigation, but some data are already available. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Johnson and Hammer put into practice many of the ideas now standard in the art, and secured much useful data for the work in New York, of which the story has just been told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our most satisf actory data in reference to Egyptian medicine are derived, however, from the Ebers papyrus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The table is usually pretty well filled with specimens or data of experimental results which have been put there for his examination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The data and parts, such as motor, rheostat, switches, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Excessive reliance upon others for data (whether got from reading or listening) is to be depreciated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ah, I have no data. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These very wide limits show how doubtful the data are; and other elements may have hereafter to be introduced into the problem. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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