Locomotion

Examples

• Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• By 1909 the aeroplane was available for human locomotion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The directors, before finally determining on the system of locomotion to be adopted, offered a premium of ￡500 for the best locomotive engine to run on that line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Langley had in fact furnished experimental proof that the aerial locomotion of bodies many times heavier than air was possible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The adult might also become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• About the beginning of the nineteenth century a number of men in England were experimenting with new means of locomotion, both for merchandise and for passengers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• However superior to other animals man may be in point of intellect, it must be admitted that he is vastly inferior in his natural equipment for locomotion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One afternoon, or night, rather, while driving home after a hard day’s work, I thought to myself that it would be a fine thing if I didn’t have to depend on the horse for locomotion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The facility of travelling by railway has excited a spirit of locomotion before undreamed of. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Railway Locomotion, however, forms no exception to the rule, that most modern inventions have their prototypes in the contrivances of ages past. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Hitherto, all motor-propelled cycles had used the power of the engine of whatever form it was merely as an aid to locomotion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Napoleon's Stage Trip and Present Locomotion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The ever-increasing power of locomotion may join the extremes of earth. Plato. The Republic.

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