Exhibition

Examples

• History fails to relate a great deal about the mechanical detail of the Pennington model, but it is said to have made a very creditable performance in exhibition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From that time until July, 1878, his time and attention day and night were almost completely absorbed by the excitement caused by the invention and exhibition of the machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had seen one of the machines on exhibition, and had decided to try it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• On a certain day, when there was a board meeting of the company, I was to make an exhibition test. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Probably the largest use of the phonograph or graphophone is for home amusement and exhibition purpose. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In every victory he displayed humanity to the conquered, and decisively opposed any exhibition of cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But another quarter of a century brought still grander results, which were displayed at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The large clock over the principal entrance to the Great Exhibition was on this construction. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A showy demonstration--a telling exhibition--must be got up for public view, and all means were fair to this end. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• After that exhibition we had a house-cleaning at the laboratory, and the metallic-filament lamps were stored away, while preparations were made for our experiments on carbon lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Allow me my Italian humour--do I not come of the illustrious nation which invented the exhibition of Punch? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the spring of 1851 McCormick placed his reaper on exhibition at the World’s Fair in London. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The presence of this medium incites bellicose exhibitions in a boy, first in games, then in fact when he is strong enough. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Jenkins, who, in 1894, devised means for accomplishing it, and was one of the first, if not the first, to successfully project the views on a large screen adapted to public exhibitions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The charitable foundations of scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• McCormick showed his machine at the great international exhibitions and gradually induced the large landowners to consider it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Somewhere along this route we had a few startling exhibitions of Oriental simplicity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am ready to go with Annie to operas, concerts, exhibitions, all kinds of places; and you shall never find that I am tired. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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