"Worldwide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Others.—The worldwide reputation of Asbestos Liquid Paints, Roofing, Roof Paints, Steam Pipe, Boiler Coverings, etc., has induced unscrupulous persons to sell and apply worthless articles, representing them as being made of ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various
... the Patent Office. This invention therefore, marked the very beginning of an entirely new art, which, with the new industries attendant upon its development, has since grown to occupy a position of worldwide reputation. ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... for an obscure teacher of languages to criticize a "heroic fugitive" of worldwide celebrity. I was aware from hearsay that he was an industrious busy-body, hunting up his compatriots in hotels, in private lodgings, and—I was told—conferring upon them the honour of his notice in public gardens when a suitable opening presented itself. I was under the ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... electrician whose inventions are almost of the quality of miracles, and have given him worldwide celebrity, was born in Milan, Erie County, in 1847, of mixed American and Canadian parentage. His early boyhood was passed in Ohio, but he went later to Michigan, where he began his studies in a railroad telegraph office, after serving as a ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells
... Telecommunications: 3,000 telephones; worldwide external telephone service; submarine cable communication links to Bermuda; stations—1 AM, no FM, ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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