Improvement

Examples

• The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a very great hindrance to improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Concurrently with this change of ownership there was going on a great improvement in agriculture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This proving a failure, he, in 1830, turned his attention to the improvement of rubber goods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Before sunset he had cut six acres of wheat, and convinced his audience that his machine was a great improvement over the old method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The only important improvement made in it during that long term of service was the substitution of the percussion cap for the flint lock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tom seemed to think there was decidedly room for improvement in me, and seemed very earnest that I should be converted. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
• The Laputians' great improvements in the latter. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Other improvements were made, and in 1891 the first hundred machines that were really marketable were manufactured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This was the pioneer of the automatic system which by later improvements is able to send over a thousand words a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You must begin your improvements on this house, observed Elinor, and your difficulties will soon vanish. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Husbandry and American Improvements. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The complexity and expensiveness of Jacquard's loom were greatly reduced by subsequent improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Senefelder, in his subsequent improvements, gave a slight relief to the letters by the original plan of using diluted aqua-fortis, by which means the impressions obtained were blacker. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Improvements were made during the years 1861, 1862 and 1863. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Manufacturing of malt by the pneumatic process, and stirring malt during germination, are among the improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With improvements in safety there seems no limit to the possibilities of flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Stephenson was now very well regarded at the colliery for the improvements he had made there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Besides the Sholes patents, it embodies the improvements covered by patents to Clough & Jenne, No. 199,263, Jan. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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