Inventors

Examples

• V ARKWRIGHT AND THE SPINNING-JENNY 1732-1792 All the great English inventors have sprung from families of small means, and have had to work for their living. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Scientists and inventors now had two forms of electrical machines to produce light: the voltaic battery and the magneto-electric apparatus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In Washington he has made his home, and there scientists of all lands call to pay their respects to the patriarch of American inventors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What Wisconsin had was leadership and a people that responded, inventors, and constructive minds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For converting the grain into flour, the inventors of the Nineteenth Century have made revolutionary changes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Among the early noted inventors of incandescent carbon filament lamps were Edison and Maxim of New York, Swan, and Lane-Fox of England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These inventors conceived and put in practice the great idea of employing the current from an electro-magnetic machine to excite its own electric magnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The French contribute the only known features that are credited to foreign inventors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This country vendor of hair was to become one of the world’s great inventors, and to kneel before his sovereign for the accolade that was to make him knight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Problems Solved by Wood-working Inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Here it should be said that the Wrights are as excellent business men as they are inventors, and intend to receive due compensation for their years of work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Western Union bestirred itself at this sign of competition, and had shortly formed the American Speaking-Telephone Company, with a staff of inventors that included Edison. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Jacquard loom was also greatly improved by the English inventors, Barlow, Taylor, Martain and others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There is the man, he wants to know what they mean by it, he continually asks the question why, he is the great experimenter among great inventors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Goodyear devoted a great deal of his time to solving this problem, and, like many other great inventors, he passed through many trials. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An endless number of inventors had in the meantime entered the lists. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Other inventors had tried to make a machine that would carry the voice, but they had all worked from the standpoint of the telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Many inventors have barely escaped with their lives from the fury of mobs who thought the inventor would take their living from them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here I stay, and by this mill I stand, and into it will I convey the best machinery inventors can furnish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Inventors accordingly concentrated their attention on the use of twine or cord. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These problems have received the attention of the keenest inventors and electrical engineers and have been solved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If Edison had done nothing else, his share in the creation of such an industry would have entitled him to a high place among inventors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Kiraldy, Kennedy, and others of England, Thomasset of France, Riehle of Germany, and Fairbanks, Thurston and Emery of the United States, are among the noted inventors of such machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After Babbage, there was much experimenting done by inventors to produce a real adding and listing machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Great as was the work of Prof. Henry, he must share the honors with a number of prior inventors who made the electro-magnet possible. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He met with other disasters common to worthy inventors and discontinued his efforts to improve the art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is along these lines that the inventors have wrought their marvellous changes from hand to power looms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wright, Nottingham bankers, but these bankers, figuring on the experience that had befallen the inventors of other spinning machines, soon withdrew their aid. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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