Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stevens, of Hoboken, the widow of the inventor of the Stevens battery, heads the list for a new chapel for St. Paul's school, Concord, N. H., with...
Just then I saw an old man showing some invention of his in a corner of the room. "That is Fourth Dimension, our greatest philosopher. He is the inventor of the process by which a wooden box may be turned inside out. He is showing his latest discovery." I approached him to see the novelty, when behold! it was my mathematical motor! "Thief," I cried, "that invention is mine! "Snatching it from his hand, I was about to hide it from the spectators, when it started off, and, taking me with it, suddenly landed me unhurt at home...
...should suffer no longer from a lack of ventilation in the recitation rooms, and we still believe that this end might be attained if the new rooms were assigned to meet present needs and not to comply with some rigid system which satisfies no one except the complacent inventor. If preference is given to any department, it ought to be that one for which Sever is best adapted. But this has not been done. It seems that room has been found in Sever for every other department except that of History, while it has been crowded more than ever into...
Then on a huge car was exhibited the mechanical wonder of wonders, - the marking machine; it has the extraordinary power of always running down without requiring to be wound up. Its inventor has also discovered perpetual motion, and is now busy squaring the circle. A regiment of soldiers guarded this valuable chariot, and led the way for a bevy of proctors, attired in invisible tights, with noiseless moccasins. A vacant chair (of Theology) was carried on the back of a Zulu...
...England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best known as the inventor and representative of the Discursive Faculty, and used often to verify the verses...