Improvements

Examples

• 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.
• The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No one capable of making the improvements in the telegraph and telephone, for which we are indebted to Mr. Edison, could be other than an accomplished electrician. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To promote such improvements was even said to be the chief of the public-spirited purposes for which it was instituted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many minor improvements have been made in the storage battery, covered by 716 United States patents, most of which relate to cellular construction for holding the mass of red lead in place. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He was very broad-minded and enthusiastic and would rejoice in Watt's improvements of the steam engine or Cook's discoveri es in the South Pacific. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Indeed, it was through the intrinsic merits of his improvements in stock tickers that he made his real entree into commercial life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the generation of this mighty force improvements have been made, but those of greatest power still involve the principles discovered by Faraday and Henry seventy years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Those improvements sometimes contribute, indeed, to the discharge of the other landlords of the district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The principal improvements in the art of glass-making effected during the nineteenth century may be summarised as follows: First, Materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As late as 1786 improvements were being attempted in England on this old Gallic machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We must either give up the art, and disband, or make the necessary improvements as they are called for. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These with other improvements made up the celebrated Wheeler and Wilson machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• All of these plans have been tried, and some of them are still being tried with many improvements in detail, but not in principle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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