Experimental

Examples

• The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even the experimental work imposes no slight burden on it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The main building was divided into five chief divisions--the library, office, machine shops, experimental and chemical rooms, and stock-room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Experience then ceases to be empirical and becomes experimental. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The second founded a professorship of experimental chemistry at a northern university. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Crowds of spectators assembled to see the boat start on its first experimental voyage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It is also noted that In 1874 Edison invented a method of simultaneous transmission by induced currents, which has given very satisfactory results in experimental trials. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Naturally these experimental facts were to be explained in terms of the ultimate particles of which the various gases are composed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He set up an experimental line in 1835, and got his French patent October 30, 1838, and his first United States patent June 20, 1840, No. 1647. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Accordingly the consequences of the theory were only such as were consequent upon the lack of an experimental method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If we are wise we shall become experimental towards life: then every mistake will contribute towards knowledge. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The experimental method has two sides. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One has to remember their extraordinary poverty in the matter of experimental apparatus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even its use then was experimental, and did not become a practical art in the United States until about 1860. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is a miniature copy of the Orange laboratory, with its machine shop, chemical-room, and general experimental department. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I always rejoice to hear of your being still employed in experimental researches into nature, and of the success you meet with. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Social progress is an organic growth, not an experimental selection. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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.
• Edison seems on the whole to have been fairly comfortable and happy in Louisville, surrounding himself with books and experimental apparatus, and even inditing a treatise on electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was the only experimental physiologist before the time of Harvey. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Langley had in fact furnished experimental proof that the aerial locomotion of bodies many times heavier than air was possible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Let us first glance, however, at the activities of those scientists who preceded Bacon in the employmen t of the experimental method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• During the experimental period and up to the early part of 1889, the kodak film was being slowly developed by the Eastman Kodak Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Of all the branches of experimental philosophy, electricity had been least explored. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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