Yale
[jeil]
Definition
(noun.) English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721).
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Examples
- True, when he was an undergraduate at Yale he had been much interested in Professor Day’s lectures on electricity, and had written long letters home in regard to them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Prof. Silliman, of Yale College, however, in the fall of 1839 testified to the results claimed for it by Mr. Goodyear--that it did not melt with heat, nor stiffen with the cold. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yale College, in Connecticut, had before made me a similar compliment. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Professor Jeremiah Day had taught Morse at Yale that the electric spark might be made to pierce a band of unrolling paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Among the most celebrated combination and time locks of the century are those known as the Yale locks, chiefly the inventions of Louis Yale, Jr. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Miller, who was a lawyer with a taste for mechanics, and who was, again like Eli Whitney, a New Englander and graduate of Yale, married Mrs. Greene after the General’s death. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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