Obtaining

Examples

• The study of apparatus for obtaining more perfect vacua was unceasingly carried on, for Edison realized that in this there lay a potent factor of ultimate success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The laryngoscope, for obtaining a view of the larynx, was said to have been constructed by Mr. John Avery, of London, as early as 1846. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There had been great delay in obtaining the authority of Congress for the raising of the troops asked for by the administration. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every possibility of good was before me, and the first of blessings secured, in obtaining her promises of faith and correspondence. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Therefore more time had to be spent in obtaining an extension of the patent. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the metallurgy of the precious metals probably the most important step has been the _cyanide process_ of obtaining gold and silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The strength of the solution was regulated by first obtaining a saturated solution of the nitrate of silver, and afterwards diluting it with six or eight times its volume of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• While in England in 1837-1840, obtaining a patent on and introducing a circular saw, he became interested in the printing presses of the London Times. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In applying them for the purpose of obtaining instantaneous light, they were mixed together in an adhesive menstruum, into which the ends of small rectangular matches were dipped. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• DEAR SON,--I have ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The general way of obtaining salt from the earth is by means of salt wells. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The difficulty of obtaining good electrical contact in the positive element was indeed Edison's chief trouble for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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