Upton
['ʌptən]
Examples
- After Edison had decided this question, Upton made drawings and tables from which the real armatures were wound and connected to the commutator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In about two minutes he raised his head, and said: Upton, in fifteen years you will be making forty thousand lamps a day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upton first drove the enemy, and was then repulsed in turn. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Honourable Arthur Upton happened to be passing at this moment. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Now Mr. Upton was a very able mathematician, who, after he finished his studies at Princeton, went to Germany and got his final gloss under that great master, Helmholtz. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Criticism and argument were again at their height, while Upton, as Edison's duellist, was kept busy replying to private and public challenges of the fact. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Upton sums it all up very precisely in his remarks upon this period: What has now been made clear by accurate nomenclature was then very foggy in the text-books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upton had been badly wounded in this fight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton brought his prisoners with him, but the guns he had captured he was obliged to abandon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here Upton had to contend for an elevation which we wanted and which the enemy was not disposed to yield. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton, 121st New York Volunteers; Colonel William McCandless, 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, to be Brigadier-Generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Scientific American of October 18, 1879, there appeared an illustrated article by Mr. Upton on Edison's dynamo machine, in which Edison's views and claims were set forth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By this authority I conferred the rank of brigadier-general upon Upton on the spot, and this act was confirmed by the President. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Upton says: One of the main impressions left upon me, after knowing Mr. Edison for many years, is the marvellous accuracy of his guesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upton had already been named as such, but the appointment had to be confirmed by the Senate on the nomination of the President. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Speaking of the problem involved, Edison said some years later to Mr. Upton, his mathematical assistant, that he always considered he was only working from one room to another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upton, who was early employed by Mr. Edison as his mathematician, furnishes a pleasant, vivid picture of his chief associates engaged on the memorable work at Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was the kind that we were going to use for our lamp experiments; and Mr. Edison asked Mr. Upton to please calculate for him its cubic contents in centimetres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upton had gained an important advantage, but a lack in others of the spirit and dash possessed by him lost it to us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton with his assaulting party pushed forward and crossed the enemy's intrenchments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have calculated armatures and field coils for the new dynamo with Upton, and held the stakes for Jehl and his fellows at their winding bees. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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