Experiments

Examples

• Nichols was also with us for a short time conducting a special series of experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is nothing of the helter-skelter, slap-dash style in Edison's experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. 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.
• These experiments and these testimonies prove conclusively that this compound will preserve cream. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• D'Alibard, who made the first experiments in France, says that he only followed the tract which Franklin had pointed out. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My little sister must make her own experiments, said he; I will give no promises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the experiments. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When the first lamp-works were started at Menlo Park, one of my experiments seemed to show that hot mercury gave a better vacuum in the lamp than cold mercury. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again, the experiments demonstrated that the force necessary to maintain at high velocity an apparatus consisting of planes and motors could be produced by means already available. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• So, when I am after a chemical result that I have in mind, I may make hundreds or thousands of experiments out of which there may be one that promises results in the right direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are to guide and organize further observations, recollections, and experiments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this small building Edison has made some of his most important experiments in the process of working out his plans for the poured house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The owner of the house, Mr. Tonkin, was an old friend of the Davy family, and very fond of Humphrey, but the amateur experiments were almost too much for him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Quicksilver Bob he was called as a boy in Lancaster, because he used to buy all that metal he could for experiments. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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.
• This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A long series of experiments resulted in the invention of the tower dryer with a capacity of three hundred tons per hour. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Filled with the ardor of research Davy went on with his experiments at Clifton. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• True, he had bid me make my own experiments--tease and try him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There are many experiments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Some experiments on the cold produced by evaporation, made by Dr. Cullen, had been communicated to Dr. Franklin by Professor Simpson, of Glasgow. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I had paid for all the experiments on the quadruplex and exhausted the money, and I was again in straits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Down at the far end in a corner are a plain little table and chair, and here he is often to be found deeply immersed in a study of the many experiments that are being conducted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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