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Example sentences for "commercial success"

  • In spite of its simple mechanism, Hook's machine was not a commercial success.

  • Some were not able to make a commercial success of their products.

  • His machine, which was a little larger and in appearance resembled a more conventional type of sewing machine, was a commercial success.

  • Whether this was a special one-of-a-kind model, or whether the inventors tried to make a commercial success of a silver-plated machine is not known.

  • It was not a commercial success; but it served to bring him in touch with some coffee men and chemists, for whom he produced a soluble coffee in the same year.

  • Coffee chaff and roaster-flue dust have been proposed as sources for medicinal caffein, but the extraction of the alkaloid from the former has not proven to be a commercial success.

  • This machine proved to be a commercial success.

  • These transactions carried the true ring of commercial success.

  • They prove that he was far from being a prodigy, and reflect credit on him for whipping his slender talents into shape for at least a commercial success in later life.

  • He was anxious to determine if he could make it a commercial success, and so justify himself in looking forward to it as a life work.

  • Morse and the telegraph which actually proved a commercial success as the first practical carrier of intelligence which had been created for the service of man, we should pause to consider the achievements of Charles Wheatstone.

  • In the face of repeated failures, and doubt as to whether messages could be sent rapidly enough to make any cable a commercial success, it was extremely difficult to raise fresh capital.

  • Not so many years before that, in England, James Watt was complaining about the difficulty of boring a six-inch cylinder for his steam engine with sufficient accuracy to make it a commercial success.

  • Bolsover himself apparently did not appreciate the importance of this invention, and it remained for Joseph Hancock, one of his apprentices, to develop the idea to a commercial success.

  • Burroughs lived to see the fulfilment of his dreams and the machine a commercial success.


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