Discoverer

Examples

• Those which belong to the credit of the Nineteenth Century are given in the table following, with the name of the discoverer, and the date of its discovery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I would go to America, and see, and learn, and return to the Campagna and stand before my countrymen an illustrious discoverer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Dalton was not only the author of the atomic theory, but the discoverer of the leading ideas in the Constitution of Mixed Gases. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as a discoverer? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It has been said that although Oersted was the discoverer of electro-magnetism and Ampère its expounder, Faraday made the science of magnets electrically what it is at the present day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The inventor has become a scientist and a mechanic, and no longer an amateur discoverer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Arago named the new planet after the French discoverer, but soon acquiesced in the name Neptune, which has since prevailed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But as yet these protests against the discoverer had little effect. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was not a scientific discoverer, but an inventor, who, adding a few ideas of his own to what had before been discovered, was the first to combine them in a practical useful device. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Harold Powell, formerly connected with the United States government, was the discoverer of this source of great loss to the citrus industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But whether discovered by chance, accident or experience, or invented from necessity, the art of tanning should have rendered the name of the discoverer immortal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The two discoverers stare at the Smallweeds, who return the compliment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was this that brought him before the Inquisition and that branded him as a dangerous heretic, and it was this that placed him in the forefront of the world’s discoverers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Bacon believed in honoring the great discoverers and inventors, and advocated maintaining a calendar of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It would be a long list that would name the modern discoverers and inventors of the century in the manufacture of iron and steel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As has been stated, the compression of air to produce cold is a modern discovery applied to practical uses, and prominent among the inventors and discoverers in this line have been Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Inventors and discoverers came by nature, they thought, for cleverer people to profit by. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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