Inventive

Examples

• Edison, a half-brother of Edison's father, and a man of marked inventive ability. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was a poor boy and an apprentice to a wheelwright, and while thus engaged his inventive powers were developed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Peter Augustus had an inventive, an original genius. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Many of the most remarkable inventions are attributable to accidents noted by observing and inventive minds. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Within each of these fields are assembled innumerable appliances which are the offspring of the inventive genius of the century just closed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By 1711 in Italy, under the inventive genius of Bartolommeo Cristofori of Florence, they had culminated in the modern piano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Edison's inventive work on stock printers has left its mark upon the art as it exists at the present time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Current at first was supplied free to customers for approximately five months, which speaks quite as much for Edison’s Scotch canniness as for his inventive genius. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is a favourite idea with some writers and with more talkers, that when the necessity really arises for an invention the natural inventive genius of man will at once supply it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But as time went on the works improved, and Whitney applied his inventive genius to many important improvements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Doubtless his inventive mind was already revolving improvements for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Quick-witted he was, beyond a doubt, of an inventive turn, but a shrewd business man on top of all. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Now, when he could spare the time from superintending the workmen and traveling over the country, he gave his thoughts to further inventive schemes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The implements produced were, for the most part, the result of the slow growth of experience and mechanical skill, rather than the product of inventive genius. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There was a tremendous rush into the electric-railway field after 1883, and an outburst of inventive activity that has rarely, if ever, been equalled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The inventive genius of this century in the field of optics has not eclipsed the telescope and microscope of former ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His son, Richard March Hoe, inherited his father's inventive genius. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The inventive faculty of man tends more directly than any other intellectual power he possesses to raise him in the scale of creation above the brutes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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