Devising

Examples

• And yet some of the brightest intellects of the century have been engaged in devising means to accomplish the result, and all are not yet agreed as to which is the best way. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Their work is in the shops, devising improvements that will make the airship safer and better fitted for commercial uses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If I had contemplated interposing any remonstrance of my own humble devising, I might possibly have still hesitated. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At this present moment half a dozen of us are taking a private pleasure excursion of our own devising. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From the early days when growing industry demanded more coal, inventors have been busy devising all sorts of safety appliances for the miner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This necessitated first the devising and making of a large number of special tools for cutting the carbon filaments and for making and putting together the various parts of the lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He worked all that winter, meeting the many practical difficulties that arose as he progressed with his machine, and devising solutions for overcoming each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In his early days he was bitterly virtuous against usury; in his later he was devising ingenious schemes for safe usury. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Projection, invention, ingenuity, devising come in for that purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This was finally accomplished, and further invention then proceeded along engineering lines looking toward the devising of a system of molds with which practicable dwellings might be cast. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He also spent some time at Tapton in devising improvements for the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With his wonted activity and fertility Edison set about devising such a contact, and experimented with metal wheels under all conditions of speed and track conditions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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