Phrases with «turn of the nineteenth century»

Sentences with «turn of the nineteenth century»

  • At the turn of the nineteenth century, scientists isolated morphine, the active ingredient in opium, and in the 1850s the hypodermic needle was invented. (firstthings.com)
  • He had a stiff and worn noose that had been used to hang a man in England at the turn of the nineteenth century, Aleister Crowley's... (bookbrowse.com)
  • This wonderful book explains the history of mass transit, from the beginning of an idea by futuristic thinker Alfred Beach in Scientific American to the reality of the subways in Boston and New York around the turn of the nineteenth century. (bookbrowse.com)
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