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Example sentences for "inventors"

Lexicographically close words:
inventive; inventiveness; inventor; inventoried; inventories; inventory; invents; inverse; inversely; inversion
  1. The success of the trial here has, we understand, determined the inventors to lay down their contemplated line across the Channel, from England to France, under the sanction of the respective Governments.

  2. He must also know the names of the lawgivers and the inventors in science, and the laws and the history of the earth and the heavenly bodies.

  3. But on the exterior all the inventors in science, in warfare, and in law are represented.

  4. Then we have divers inventors of our own, of excellent works; which since you have not seen, it were too long to make descriptions of them; and besides, in the right understanding of those descriptions you might easily err.

  5. Alongside the dignity of such is placed, and their several inventors are named.

  6. The inventors and makers of these machines are not responsible that criminals use them for unprecedented escape from arrest, and boys and girls go to destruction of honor and purity in a whirl of wind and dust.

  7. He lists "reformers" for the most part in this class and "inventors who do not succeed.

  8. American and British inventors united in making a machine.

  9. Sir James Mackintosh places this poor Scotch boy who began with only an idea "at the head of all inventors in all ages and all nations.

  10. Sheet 3-4 Sheets] Let us turn now to a consideration of those inventions made by colored inventors since the war period, and at a time when no obstacles stood in the way.

  11. All American inventors stand on a level before the Patent Office.

  12. In the period preceding the Civil War mechanical inventions of merit by colored persons were not numerous, so far as the investigation has shown, but this was also true of all classes of inventors of that time.

  13. Several colored inventors have also applied their inventive skill to solving the problem of aerial navigation, with the result that some of them have been granted patents for their inventions in airships.

  14. These instances of hardships, however, in the lot of inventors are in no sense peculiar to colored inventors.

  15. We should mention here also two other inventors of importance in the line of appliances for musical instruments, Mr. J.

  16. It is a medley of mechanics, millionaires, kings, inventors and farmers; and it is intended for the average man and woman, boy and girl.

  17. He was for thirty years a sort of paymaster to a small mob of inventors who had new ideas or who thought they had.

  18. If Marcus Aurelius had invented the reaper, or if the Gracchi had been inventors instead of politicians, the story of Rome would have had a happier ending.

  19. There was a notable group of inventors in Rockford who did much to put him on the right track.

  20. He set out upon such a search for improvements that, during the rest of his life, inventors fluttered around him like moths around a candle.

  21. Here are more than two hundred inventors and designers, well housed and well salaried, and not tramping from shop to shop, as inventors did in the good old days.

  22. Mark Twain once received a letter from an author who had written a book calculated to assist inventors and patentees, asking for his indorsement.

  23. The fact that other inventors besides Paige were working quite as diligently and perhaps toward more simple conclusions did not disturb him.

  24. If your books tell how to exterminate inventors send me nine editions.

  25. But some will say, what though the inventors were bad, the thing for all that may be good?

  26. And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book-licensing ripped up and drawn as lineally as any pedigree.

  27. The names of inventors may now be on moldering tombstones, but their busy fingers are still weaving warm textures for the world's poor.

  28. Inventors with steel plates may make warships proof against bombs, but no man hath invented an armor against troubles.

  29. The difference in imagination among men is shown clearly by the difference--and often the differences--between inventors and engineers, and the scarcity of men who are both inventors and engineers.

  30. In literature, inventors write novels; in business life, they project railroads; in strategy, they map out new lines of effort.

  31. Fortunately, however, there is a little bit of the inventor in most engineers, and a trace of the engineer in most inventors; while in some inventors there is a good deal of the engineer.

  32. Mr. James Taylor may also be considered as one of the authors or inventors of the present system of steam navigation.

  33. Doubtless it is from this mixed seed of Israel that many, aye nearly all, the great reformers, inventors and discoverers have sprung.

  34. The result was that a succession of poets, painters, sculptors, philosophers, inventors and discoverers sprung up in Italy and western Europe unparalleled in the history of the world.

  35. The other inventors claim no one who succeeds has a right to live in the Isle of Phreex.

  36. John readily agreed to this proposal; so Chick took his hand and led him through some of the wide halls, stopping frequently to call upon the different inventors and scientific discoverers who inhabited the various rooms.

  37. Of the traits of the brotherhood of first-class writers, savans, musicians, inventors and artists, nothing is finer than silent defiance advancing from new free forms.

  38. You must now be convinced that the things which I have touched upon as mysteries are profound absurdities, of which their inventors can render no reasonable account either to themselves or to others.

  39. Great inventors who will apply their genius to the improvement of cotton growing and manufacture are still to be born.

  40. The process is not a fast one at best, and the chief contribution of American inventors is in the direction of speed.

  41. Within the century just past the inventors of America have done more than was done in all the preceding centuries to multiply the comforts and minimize the burdens of domestic life.

  42. Again, there is another group of discoverer-inventors who occupy an intermediate position between the abstract discoverers above named and the inventors and adapters of still more recent times.

  43. That automatic stability of the machine is the theory of aeronautics that all inventors should study most carefully.

  44. The opportunities for obtaining mechanical and scientific knowledge and technical instruction are now so many and so easy of access that inventors have but little trouble in acquiring the data and facts essential to their purposes.

  45. The more enlightened nations encouraged inventors and inventions, and now our country has on its statute books laws for this purpose, the most liberal in the world.

  46. History records many instances of inventors and progressive men being persecuted--and executed--because of their having discovered or invented something which would interfere with some vested or imaginary rights.

  47. There are many other inventors on three continents busily employed in trying to solve the balance problem.

  48. The inventors found the President an easy man to talk to.

  49. As usual, the cranks and inventors led the way.

  50. The magnificent fortunes which, it is currently understood, have rewarded the inventors of the more popular Mowers, Reapers, etc.

  51. His patents were taken out in 1809, and to him must be accorded the credit of solving for the first time the problem that had vexed the minds of so many inventors and had depleted the purses of so many capitalists.

  52. What inventors have accomplished in this respect is truly marvelous.

  53. Various inventors and exhibitors received gifts and decorations from the hand of the President of the Republic, and, among them, Dr.

  54. But I am glad here to recall the fact that when, at a later period, one of the worst inventors of slander against Mr. Blaine sought reward in the shape of office from President Cleveland, he was indignantly spurned.


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