Factories

Examples

• In many factories where phosphorus is used without great care workmen have been greatly affected thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• All mills and factories along the lines of march of his troops were destroyed also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The completed inventions of Arkwright and others, combined with Watt's steam engine, revolutionised trade, and resulted in the establishment of mills and factories. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He is an ingenious fellow, too: he invented a machine for the cleaning of hemp--a really valuable affair; it's gone into use in several factories. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Similar works at Avon, near Coventry, England, have an equal capacity, and other factories are about to be established in Belgium and Germany. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In this instance, demands for isolated plants for lighting factories, mills, mines, hotels, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Practically every civilized country in the world, except the United States, had one or more cyanamid factories in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There will be more and better light in homes; there will be more and better light in offices and factories, thus greatly lessening the chances for injury or eye-strain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The air in crowded buildings, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The great Harburg-Vienna factories cover sixty-seven acres, are capitalized at 9,000,000 marks, and employ 3,500 hands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In some great districts the Church owns all the property--lands, watercourses, woods, mills and factories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In 1813 he took out a patent and lighted several factories. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But by-and-by came a re-action, there were more factories, more masters; more men were wanted. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The riots died away, the labor leaders turned to other fields, and one by one the clothing factories installed the new machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Our present splendid machine shops, gun shops, locomotive works, typewriter and bicycle factories, are examples of the wonderful extensions of this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When the chicle arrives at one of the chewing-gum factories it is immediately turned over to the grinding department. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cities and factories, schools and homes, theaters and games, manners and thought will have to be transformed before sex can find a better expression. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am leaving out our colleges, just as I give Mr. Thornton leave to omit his factories in speaking of the charms of Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No factories in the land would take up the manufacture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then there are the factories where these incandescent lamps are made, about forty in number, representing a total investment that may be approximated at $25,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The fires, whose lurid, sullen light had been visible for miles, blazed fiercely up, in the great works and factories of the town. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The sewing machine previous to 1851, made without the admirable division of labour which is a feature in all well conducted factories, was hard to make, and comparatively hard to run. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• New books, for instance, were dictated to rows of copyists in the factories of the booksellers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Everywhere there sprang up factories using first water then steam power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was due largely to Arkwright’s invention, to his building up of factories on new methods, and to the great help furnished to all machinery by the steam-engines of James Watt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The masses of 1919, on the other hand, had been uprooted everywhere, to go into the armies, to go into munition factories, and so on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Have you seen any of our factories? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Under that plan, resembling the methods of 1878, the machines and blank cylinders were manufactured by the Edison Phonograph Works, which still retains its factories at Orange, New Jersey. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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