Prototypes
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Examples
- 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.
- The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Embryology will often reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These were the prototypes of the lighted buoys which have since become familiar, as in the channel off Sandy Hook. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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