But his self-depreciation was here cut off with the electric light.
We decided that five years would be the average book life of all our new tools and implements, which would mean a depreciation of twenty per cent each year.
Now, all we have to do is to divide twenty per cent, of the cost by the number of acres on which we use the implement, and we have the depreciation per acre.
For such cases a canal may be cheaper than steel penstocks when the items of depreciation and repairs are taken into account.
It follows that the items of interest anddepreciation on the original investment represent a charge of 0.
The question is whether a lower maintenance and depreciation rate for the steel towers would offset their disadvantages compared with poles.
Interest, maintenance, and depreciation of this complete transmission system are sufficiently provided for by an allowance of 15 per cent yearly on its entire first cost.
These transformers will add to the cost of the energy that they deliver in two ways: by the absorption of some energy to form heat, and by the sum of annual interest, maintenance, and depreciation charges on the price paid for them.
More than this, it is said that the lower depreciation and maintenance charges on steel supports will make their final cost no greater than that of wooden poles.
Philadelphia and Baltimore are at a depreciation of five per cent.
He had supposed that the letter in question contained a request for a remittance to cover depreciation in his account.
The government hopes the boost in export competitiveness from the depreciation will help lift Sweden out of its 3-year recession.
The trade deficit, exacerbated by UN trade sanctions against neighboring Serbia, grew in late 1993, accelerating the depreciationof the lev.
To the surprise and joy of all concerned he raised the credit of the nation rapidly from the lowest depths of depreciation to a lofty eminence of credit.
His predictions of sudden depreciation were too fully realized.
More than this, owing to thedepreciation of continental money he paid three-fourths of his own expenses.
Some difficulty was made by this House of Commons about their grant of subsidies, which was uncommonly large, though rather in appearance than truth, so great had been the depreciation of silver for some years past.
SIR: Being out of the way of my letters, I did not, till now, see your excellent article of the 23d September on the depreciation of gold.
The profits are very fluctuating and the depreciation of plant is considerable.
But it would be unjust not to tell, that she never uttered a word in depreciation of Dorothea, keeping in religious remembrance the generosity which had come to her aid in the sharpest crisis of her life.
Mother, please say that I am to go," urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciationas a girl.
A schedule of depreciation of all old roubles was published.
When eighty was reached no attempt was made to press the process of depreciation any further.
The comparative depreciation which has come upon Beaumont and Fletcher naturally fixes on the defects.
The locus classicus of depreciation both in regard to him and to Herrick is to be found, as might be expected, in one of the greatest, and one of the most wilfully capricious and untrustworthy of English critics, in Hazlitt.
Watson himself, moreover, has invited depreciation by his extreme frankness in confessing that his Passionate Century is not a record of passion at all, but an elaborate literary pastiche after this author and that.
The gradual depreciation in the value of money afforded good ground for Sir Henry Spelman's sarcasm that, while everything else became dearer, the life of man became continually cheaper.
In 1669 a committee of the House of Lords reported that one cause of the depreciation of landed property was the uncertainty of titles, and proposed registration of deeds as a remedy, but nothing was done.
Wall Street was panicky--chiefly because of the immense depreciation in railway securities.
This, however, was attributed to their fears of unsettlement of values, and consequent depreciation of their property.
Charge depreciation on buildings, tools, fixtures, or anything else suffering from age or wear and tear.
Charge depreciation on all goods carried over on which a less price may have to be made because of damage or any other cause.
As early as 1839, in notes to his Diario of Lopez de Souza, he began a long series of publications in order to counteract the depreciation of Vespucius by Ayres de Cazal, Navarrete, and Santarem.
Perhaps the most touching proof of his own self-depreciation was something he did when he had become conscious that his career would be written about.
The latter were constantly liable to depreciation by the unwise tampering of the government.
The edict was published accordingly; but failing of its intended effect, was followed by another, in which the depreciation was increased to ten per cent.
The first measure of the new minister caused a further depreciation of the coin.
D'Aguesseau, the chancellor, was unceremoniously dismissed by the regent for his opposition to the vast increase of paper money, and the constant depreciation of the gold and silver coin of the realm.
What could Stephen say in depreciation of this gift from their oldest and best friend?
There was no slightest movement of depreciation on Mrs Colclough's part.
This figure does not take into account depreciation of battery and engine.
The dynamo and switchboard should last a lifetime with ordinary care, so there is no depreciation charge against them.
Depreciation enters in both cases; and though it may be more rapid with a gasoline engine than a water wheel, that item will not be considered here.
But it becomes a very serious consideration when one is installing a storage battery as the source of current, because of the high initial cost, and depreciation of such a battery.
This increase in value, however, often actually takes place, and in a fair sized collection of books, judiciously gathered, the abnormal increase in the value of some volumes will help to balance the sluggishness or depreciation of others.
To exceed these distances seems both superfluous and injurious, particularly when it goes so far as to risk permanent depreciation of the material.
