Decade

Examples

• And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Within the last decade or so shells have been invented with the design simply to shatter or fracture the plate by which the way is broken for subsequent shots. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is a revolutionary task, and like all real revolutions it will not be done in a day or a decade because someone orders it to be done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The third decade was now prepared for the development of the telegraph. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• First Decade of Nineteenth Century Produces Wonderful Inventor, Thomas Blanchard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the last decade many applications of the explosive gas engine to road carriages and tricycles have been made, especially in France. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Like the paper-making machine, the power press was conceived in the last decade of the eighteenth century, and like that art was also not developed until the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Within the next decade, one looks to see a remarkable advance in this direction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It will surprise many readers, then, to know that the electric light had its birth in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Sir Samuel Bentham, of England, whose inventions in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century formed the nucleus of the modern art of woodworking. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Jacquard, a native of Lyons, conceived the plan of his great invention in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century, and on December 28, 1801, took out French patent No. 245, on the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Tull's machines were much improved by James Cooke, a clergyman of Lancashire, England; and also in the last decade of the eighteenth century by Baldwin and Wells of Norfolk, England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Their use was known to our seafaring men in the forties, for it was in that decade that Capt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was during that decade that, in the United States, Batcheller invented the perpetual feed for moving the cloth horizontally under and past the needle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Decade of 1849-1859, Greatest in Century in Sewing Machine Inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There had been exactly four decades of steam navigation on American waters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Within two decades of the crucifixion this new religion was already attracting the attention of the Roman rulers in several provinces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The slight leeway of a century or so, a few decades may recover. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The growth of this industry in the four earlier decades is as follows (the relatively small increase between 1860 and 1870 being accounted for by the Civil War): 1840. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It would be but repetition to enumerate here the practical results of the laboratory work during the past two decades, as they appear on other pages of this work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To Damascus, years are only moments, decades are only flitting trifles of time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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