Schenectady
[ski'nektədi]
Definition
(noun.) a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal.
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Examples
- In operating the Schenectady works Mr. Insull and I had a terrible burden. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the City of Schenectady that happened as a result of the mayoralty campaign of 1911. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What with these troubles and the lack of room, we decided to find a factory elsewhere, and decided to try the locomotive works up at Schenectady. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The other instance referred to occurred shortly after the Edison Machine Works was moved up to Schenectady, in 1886. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The next man adjacent was John Kruesi, afterward engineer of the great General Electric Works at Schenectady. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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