Pioneers

Examples

• It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely composed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Dowsing, one of the pioneers of electric cooking, exhibited electric cookers and heaters at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exposition in London, was much interest manifested. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Papin in 1695, Savary in 1698, and Newcomen in 1705, were the pioneers of Watt, and gave to him a good working basis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The earliest ships on the sea were either Sumerian or Hamitic; the Semitic peoples followed close upon these pioneers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Androscoggin Pulp Mill, established in Maine in 1870, was one of the pioneers in this field. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Among the pioneers was one which received the round bunch between two compressing jaws, and pressed it flat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They were grateful to those others, the pioneers, the new owners, who had opened out the pits, and let forth this stream of plenty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But it was an unexplored field into which the telephone pioneers so courageously plunged. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The old Gessner presses of Saxony were the pioneers in this field. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were the pioneers in this line of displays. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Formerly 1st Bangalore Pioneers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Surrounded, too, by vast forests, from which their houses, their churches and their schools must be constructed, these pioneers naturally turned their thoughts toward wood-working machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The vast possibilities of the film had not yet dawned upon the pioneers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He carried his ideas to completion, and that, with his talent to observe and improve upon other men’s work, gave him his leading place among the world’s pioneers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Cort expended a fortune in developing the iron trade, and was one of the greatest pioneers in this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Burden’s, of November 23, 1835, were pioneers in horse-shoe machines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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