"... creating a series of trusses which were built up from shorter section and held in place by their own weight, with help from judiciously placed iron bolts and plates .. so effective the roof that for nearly a century the University Press stored its books ... and for many years it was the largest unsupported floor in existence ...'

Money from the iron helped the community to grow, as evidenced by several mansions still in existence in the town.

An expert iron ore prospector, he soon discovered the surface indication which led him to believe in the existence of extensive ore deposits.

Dunlap's Creek Bridge ( 1839 ), carrying old U. S. Route 40 over Dunlap's Creek in Brownsville, is the nation's oldest cast iron bridge in existence.

Slayden's growth was spurred by the existence of a railroad line ( the " Mineral Branch " of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ) which was built in the late 19th century largely to assist the movement of iron from the nearby works at Cumberland Furnace to market.

However, there is still no corroborating observational evidence for the existence of these iron particles.

By the 16th century, the first conquerors who crossed through its territory were Cristobal de Onate, José Angulo and Gines Vazquez del Mercado, the latter attracted by the illusion of the existence of a large supply of silver ; he had ultimately discovered a special deposit of iron, which now bears his name.

It owes it existence to the discovery of iron ore and the opening of mines and iron works in the 19th century.

However, the iron gates of the factory are still in existence today, thirty years after its closure and have recently been mounted on the traffic island where the Holyhead Road passes the bus station, in tribute to the works.

During its long existence the works produced huge quantities of a variety of products including pig iron, tunnel castings, ( used in projects such as the London Underground ), pipes and street furniture as well as bitumen, roadstone, chemicals and munition casings.

The town is relatively young, coming into existence in the 19th century, following the rapid expansion of the local iron and coal industries.

Several fine heritage buildings from the late 1880s / early 1900s settlement are still in existence, including the Great Western Hotel ( 1898 ), reputed to have the longest iron lace verandah in the Southern Hemisphere, the Cobar Court House ( 1887 ) and Court House Hotel ( 1895 ) in Barton Street, as well as the interesting Cobar Heritage and Visitor Information Centre, located in the beautiful former Mines Office ( 1910 ).

Upon hearing of the existence of the crater and the meteoritic iron, Barringer became convinced that the crater was of meteoritic origin.

In the first few decades of its existence it rose to become a major integrated steel company, not only producing iron in blast furnaces, but also producing machines and other articles from the metal.

Excavations on the site of Beuvray, in the region of the Champlain, and on the surrounding massifs revealed the existence of mines for the extraction of metals, including gold, iron, and tin ore.

For the greater part of its existence, it was housed in a temporary wood and corrugated iron structure, affectionately known as the Tin Temple, on the corner of Rissik and Plein streets in central Johannesburg. The Institute grew and developed, and in time gave rise to the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria.

As far as is known, no coaches or locomotives of the Middy are still in existence and the corrugated iron buildings were either left to rust or sold to become farm sheds.

Traditional agriculture, fishing, iron processing, carpentry, pottery, tissue exchange of products were the occupations of the people throughout the town's existence.

These early forms of public transport developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s, using the newly improved iron or steel rail or ' tramway '.

His earlier life was spent in great poverty, and the struggle for existence developed in him an iron strength of character.

The company was in existence from 1819 to 1831, and at the leading edge of iron technology ; producing a wide range of products such as blast furnaces and rolling mill equipment, sugar mills for export to the West Indies, iron ' bearers ' ( beams ) for important buildings of the age, wrought iron rails, and four early steam locomotives.

However, uncodified conventions, practices and precedents continue to play a significant role in most countries, as many constitutions do not specify important elements of procedure: for example, some older constitutions using the Westminster system do not mention the existence of the cabinet and / or the prime minister, because these offices were taken for granted by the authors of these constitutions.

The very existence of the debate is evidence that de Valera's latest attorney-general and part of his cabinet, maybe even de Valera himself, did not agree with de Valera's statement in 1945 that the Irish state was already a republic.

During a period of political instability and fragile, short-lived governments, he was generally seen as the most influential cabinet member in most of the Weimar Republic's existence.

Emperor Haile Selassie appointed him Minister of the Interior in March 1941, as part of the cabinet Haile Selassie established to re-assert Ethiopia's existence as an independent state against the views of the British War Office that, since Ethiopia had previously been Italian territory, the Emperor " cannot fully reassume his status and powers as Emperor until a peace treaty has been signed with Italy ".

The Preußenschlag was declared partially unconstitutional on October 25, 1932 by the German Constitutional Court, but only in so far as the formal existence of the Prussian cabinet was concerned.

( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.

The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.

At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.

Nakamura ( '58 ) was unable to demonstrate their existence, either by anatomic or physiologic methods, in dogs.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

The prevalent opinion which we encountered in a variety of expressions in your country denied not only the existence of this conflict but it was elaborated even further with an incredible semantic dexterity.

His recent experience in motor car advertising, a love for cars of themselves, the existence of A-Z's useless Wisconsin set-up, exposure to exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would buy, and the coincidental recent failure of a respected but out-dated small-car manufacturer called Ticonderoga Motors had given him an idea of such dimensions he was almost afraid to broach it.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated " In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC.

Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.

An author is broadly defined as " the person who originated or gave existence to anything " and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

B. Rhine, who was critical in the early foundations of parapsychology as a laboratory science, was committed to finding scientific evidence for the spiritual existence of humans.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

it was noted by Bohr that the existence of any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself.

This Ecumenical council declared that Jesus Christ was a distinct being of God in existence or reality ( hypostasis ), which the Latin fathers translated as persona.

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines was a case where the District Court decided that the website of Southwest Airlines was not in violation of the Americans with Disability Act because the ADA is concerned with things with a physical existence and thus cannot be applied to cyberspace.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.