Inventors Sentence Examples

Within a few years several methods had been proposed by different inventors, but none was at first very successful, not from any fault in the principle, but because the effect of electrostatic capacity of the line was left out of account in the early arrangements.

Utilizing this principle many inventors have devised forms of electrostatic voltmeter.

Certain other inventors have applied the same principle in a different way.

More modern inventors have therefore adopted the plan of drawing the glass direct from the furnace.

If the arguments chiefly relied on for an early date are so precarious or can even be turned against their inventors, there are others of an unambiguous kind which make for a date in the Persian period.

He goes on to attribute the world's science and civilization to pagan inventors; but it is not clear whether in this he is alluding specially to the culture of his own city.

But this competition among inventors, whatever the incentive, has not been without benefit, because to-day, by means of very simple improvements in details, such as the addition of circulators and increased area of connexions, what may be taken to be the standard type of multiple-effect evaporator (that is to say, vertical vacuum pans fitted with vertical heating tubes, through which passes the liquor to be treated, and outside of which the steam or vapour circulates) evaporates nearly double the quantity of water per square foot of heating surface per hour which was evaporated by apparatus in use so recently as 1885 - and this without any increase in the steam pressure.

Pick machines have also been introduced by Jones and Levick, Bidder, and other inventors, but their use is now mostly abandoned in favour of those working continuously.

The family of the Kays, the inventors, belonged to this place, and Robert Peel's print-works were established here in 1770.

The mariner's compass during the early part of the 19th century was still a very imperfect instrument, although numerous inventors had tried to improve it.

At Annonay there is an obelisk in honour of the brothers Montgolfier, inventors of the balloon, who were natives of the place.

Jansen and his father were the real inventors of the telescope in 1610, and that Lippershey only made a telescope after hints accidentally communicated to him of the details of Jansen's invention.

Portions of the cottage of Thomas Newcomen, one of the inventors of the steam-engine, are preserved.

In most of the delusive machines commonly called perpetual motions, of which so many are patented in each year, and which are expected by their inventors to perform work without receiving energy, the fundamental fallacy consists in an expectation that some reciprocating force shall restore more energy than it has been the means of storing.

The work of Faraday from 1831 to 1851 stimulated and originated an immense mass of scientific research, but at the same time practical inventors had not been slow to perceive that it was capable of purely technical application.

New industries were established, inventors protected, workmen invited from foreign countries, French workmen absolutely prohibited to emigrate.

The growing demand for this system of evaporation for application in many other industries, besides that of sugar has brought to the front a large number of inventors.

In 1878 Sir William Siemens patented a form of furnace' which is the type of a very large number of those designed by later inventors.

They turned the maxim that "there is no peace beyond the line" against its inventors.

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The latter therefore appears the better material, and was originally preferred by Hall; cryolite, however, dissolves more alumina, and has been finally adopted by both inventors.

That England, not possessing the raw material, became the seat of the cotton manufacture, was owing to the ingenuity of her inventors.

It was soon found that the production of a mixture of SO 2 and 0 from sulphuric acid, as above described, was both too troublesome and costly, and after a number of experiments in other directions inventors went back to the use of ordinary burner-gas from pyrites and sulphur burners.

For a good many years the further development of this industry was surrounded by great mystery, but it is now known that a satisfactory solution of the difficulties existing in the above respect was attained in several places, for instance, at Freiberg and in London, by the labours of the original inventors, Professor Winkler and Dr Messel.

The inventors of the so-called popish plot charged the leading English Roman Catholics with a design to murder the king.

The first woman who expressed olives packed in a sack by heaping stones on them may be considered as the forerunner of the inventors of all the presses that subsequently came into use.

Hence Connecticut became known as the " Land of Yankee Notions "; and small wares are still manufactured, the patents granted to inventors in one city ranging from bottle-top handles, bread toasters and lamp holders, to head-rests for church pews and scissors-sharpeners.

From Baby jogger, the inventors of the original three wheeled jogging buggy.

Patents provide recognition and financial reward and inspire future generations of inventors.

New technology enforces ad watching inventors have developed a system that stops viewers from avoiding advertisements on television.

How can we inspire our kids to become inventors?

Sadly, David died in December that year, at his desk doing what he enjoyed, helping inventors.

Tho his rather worrying obsession with doing down religion only pops up once this time, Inventors somehow lacks the oomph of Scientists.

As a Roman Catholic and near to the king's person Catherine was the special object of attack by the inventors of the Popish Plot.

The numerous adjustments required by the tapper and the inertia of the apparatus prompted inventors to seek for a self-restoring coherer which should not need tapping.

The theorems on the composition of forces in circular motion with which it concluded formed the true prelude to Newton's Principia, and would alone suffice to establish the claim of Huygens to the highest rank among mechanical inventors.

The pursuit of salvation does not dominate by any means the whole life and ambition of even ardent believers; statesmen, philosophers, men of letters, scientific investigators and inventors have commonly gone their way regardless of the particular form of Christianity which prevailed in the land in which they lived.

Tho the first submersible vehicles were tools for exploring under water, it did not take long for inventors to recognize their military potential.

The effectiveness of collecting and then using solar power was so impressive, inventors continued to improve upon the technique.

Throughout the century, scientists and inventors worked hard at lassoing the power of the sun.

This reality television show features every-day inventors from around the United States who compete for a chance to mass produce and market their products.

Twelve inventors and their products are chosen from a pool of hundreds of entries.

In my opinion, inexpensive clothes from retailers like Zara and H&M that offer a modern fit often look better than more expensive clothing from places like Brooks Brothers (the inventors of the American "sack" suit).

Many creative individuals have used lucid dreaming as way to experiment and come up with inventions, including great inventors like Thomas Edison who was known to take naps as he worked on inventions.

Two video game inventors, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney developed and released the first arcade game called Computer Space which was loosely based on the earlier game Spacewar!.

For budding inventors, or simply a great way to teach science, the National Museum of Education has web pages just for children called Inventucation Central.

Students who visit these pages will learn about other young inventors, current competitions and dozens of science activities.

More artists and inventors worked with the atomizer over the years, creating a continuous air flow, oscillating needle and reservoir for ink.

At a certain point in the evolution of this clock, Greek inventors applied a bell to the gear system or balls that would drop into a large basin underneath, making this the world's first known alarm clock.

The company went on to win several awards such as Geneva's Salon International des Inventions gold medal with honors, the Brussels World Inventions gold medal, and three awards at the 1977 New York International Inventors Expo.

There is much information about the automotive industry history, including country-specific industry challenges, inventors, and the US automotive industry.

These early inventors did, however, create the path and innovation for gas-powered engines.

The combustion engine could propel wheels more efficiently than other options, and inventors used this innovation to power vehicles by steam, gasoline, and even electricity.

French lingerie is considered to the finest of all lingerie worldwide, they are the inventors of these beautiful underthings after all.

The real hook that interesting scifi has on the imagination is that it seems like it just ''might'' be possible - and it is a short step from that into the active planning of inventors and scientists both young and old.

In 1850, the Scientific American founded the first branch of the US Patent Agency and provided technical assistance as well as legal advice to scientists and inventors.

The difficulty of connecting lightships and isolated lighthouses to the mainland by submarine cables, owing to the destructive action of the tides and waves on rocky coasts on the wll- shore ends, led many inventors to look for a way out of the difficulty by the adoption of some form of inductive Smith.

Marconi's successes and the demonstrations he had given of the thoroughly practical character of this system of electric wave telegraphy stimulated other inventors to enter the same field of labour, whilst theorists began to study carefully the nature of the physical operations involved.

Other inventors had professed to find a solution of the problem by the use of looped receiving antennae or antennae inclined in various directions.

It very soon, therefore, became clear to inventors that a very great advantage would be gained if some means could be discovered of creating high frequency oscillations which were not intermittent but continuous.

Herein he divided the class A y es into two subclasses, to which he applied the names of Insessores and Grallatores (hitherto used by their inventors Vigors and Illiger in a different sense), in the latter work relying chiefly for this division on characters which had not before been used by any systematist, namely that in the former group monogamy generally prevailed and the helpless nestlings were fed by their parents, while the latter group were mostly polygamous, and the chicks at birth were active and capable of feeding themselves.

Although this transition from the discontinuous to continuous is not truly scientific, yet it materially augmented the development of algebra, and Hankel affirms that if we define algebra as the application of arithmetical operations to both rational and irrational numbers or magnitudes, then the Brahmans are the real inventors of algebra.

Since Howard published his invention the vacuum pan has been greatly improved and altered in shape and power, and especially of recent years, and the advantages of concentrating in vacuo having been acknowledged, the system has been adopted in many other industries, and crowds of inventors have turned their attention to the principle.

The substitution of machinery for hand labour in cutting coal has long been a favourite problem with inventors, the earliest plan being that of Michael Meinzies, in 1761, who proposed to work a heavy pick underground by power transmitted from an engine at the surface, through the agencies of spear-rods and chains passing over pulleys; but none of the methods suggested proved to be practically successful until the general introduction of compressed air into mines furnished a convenient motive power, susceptible of being carried to considerable distances without any great loss of pressure.

The scientific and practical value of this idea was soon seized upon by various inventors and others, and the number of patented systems of combining steel with concrete is constantly increasing.

In 1830, Arago, who always professed liberal opinions of the extreme republican type, was elected a member of the chamber of deputies for the Lower Seine, and he employed his splendid gifts of eloquence and scientific knowledge in all questions connected with public education, the rewards of inventors, and the encouragement of the mechanical and practical sciences.

Several inventors succeeded in making models fly by the aid of aeroplanes and screws, as, e.g.

Such conditions carried on the work of British inventors in helping to develop industries so strongly that manufacturers were able to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the American Civil War (in spite of the temporary disability it entailed upon the cotton industry) and by the Franco-German War.

The two inventors then cooperated, an experimental plant was run successfully, and the patents were taken over by the leading manufacturers.

The drawbacks still present in this burner caused it to be abandoned after a few years, but they have since been overcome by several recent inventors, principally American.

Both these inventors began in the same way, viz.

But the inventors of our age have put a billion transistors on an area the size of a postage stamp.